The co-writer and director of the touching new dramedy talks about finding a visual language for isolation and connection in ...

"Rental Family" is a new movie that just opened to rave reviews. It stars Brendan Fraser as an American actor struggling to ...

Eva Victor, Mary Bronstein, HIKARI, and Leslye Headland talk life and career with IndieWire at the SCAD Savannah Film ...

In this gentle comedy from the one-named Japanese director Hikari, an agency specializes in providing actors to make life's ...

While Vaisman knew his big brother was a volunteer, Mia has no idea in the film that Phillip isn’t her real father, nor that ...

Hikari’s beautifully moving and affably humorous story of human connection, “Rental Family,” kicks off with one funeral and ...

"She's a creator who has a strong intuition [for] the human condition – and [can do] that with sincerity, without ever being ...

Brendan Fraser plays lonely American actor Phillip Vandarploeug, who goes to work for a Tokyo-based rental family agency.

Afterwards, Hikari directed episodes of the streamer’s Emmy-winning bleak comedy “ Beef ” and a few episodes of HBOMax’s “ ...

I f you've ever wished you could hire someone as a faux family member to help you navigate a tricky social situation, the ...

That little girl is my experience.' The director opens up about how she wove her own story into the new film starring Brendan ...

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