Rental Family

Synopsis

An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese 'rental family' agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients' worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.

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Cast

Brendan Fraser

Phillip Vanderploeg

Takehiro Hira

Shinji Tada

Mari Yamamoto

Aiko Nakajima

Shannon Mahina Gorman

Mia Kawasaki

Akira Emoto

Kikuo Hasegawa

Paolo Andrea Di Pietro

Handsome Actor

Shinji Ozeki

Casting Director

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Takao Kin

Bartender

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Risa Kameda

Neighbor Girlfriend

Yuma Sonan

Neighbor Boyfriend

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Kana Kitty

Neighbor Business Woman

Gan Furukawa

Neighbor Old Man

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Yuji Komatsu

Neighbor Father

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Ryoko Osada

Neighbor Wife

Helen Sadler

Sonia

Kaoru Mizuki

Funeral Home Receptionist

Shohei Uno

Mr. Daitoh

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Sonoe Mizoguchi

Daitoh's Mother

Keiji Yamashita

Daitoh's Father

Bun Kimura

Kota Nakano

Crew

Art

• Norihiro Isoda Production Design
• Masako Takayama Production Design
• Tomoko Kotakemori Art Direction
• 松井理湖 Assistant Art Director

Camera

• Takuro Ishizaka Director of Photography
• James Lisle Still Photographer

Costume & Make-Up

• Hiromi Momose Makeup & Hair
• Meg Mochizuki Costume Design

Crew

• Jon Mooney Temp Music Editor
• Andrew Silver Temp Music Editor
• Chris Dowell Post Production Supervisor
• Yasuko Yui Post Production Assistant

Directing

• Hikari Director
• Raku Nagao First Assistant Director
• Mizuho Kudo Script Supervisor

Editing

• Alan Baumgarten Editor
• Thomas A. Krueger Editor
• Samuel Peterson Additional Editor

Lighting

• Kenjiro So Chief Lighting Technician

Production

• Eddie Vaisman Producer
• Julia Lebedev Producer
• Stephen Blahut Executive Producer
• Shin Yamaguchi Producer
• Tomo Koizumi Executive Producer
• Hikari Producer
• Kei Kawamura Casting
• Jennifer Semler Executive Producer
• Leonid Lebedev Executive Producer
• Brendan Fraser Executive Producer
• Oren Moverman Executive Producer
• Rita Walsh Co-Producer

Sound

• Jon Thor Birgisson Original Music Composer
• Alex Somers Original Music Composer
• Kevin Senzaki Sound Designer
• Chuck Michael Sound Editor
• Choi Sung-rok Supervising Sound Editor
• Choi Sung-rok Sound Designer
• Andy Hay Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• Ryotaro Harada Production Sound Mixer
• Andrew Ransom Music Editor
• Jason Tregoe Newman Music Editor
• Marcello Dubaz Sound Editor
• Alexander Pugh Sound Editor

Writing

• Hikari Writer
• Stephen Blahut Writer

Photos