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

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 ...

The new film follows Fraser's character, an actor named Phillip Vandarploeug, who lands an unusual gig at a Japanese "rental ...

Rental Family' director Hikari talks about finding her story for the film, the difference between cultures towards mental health, and the idea of "found family." ...

Brendan Fraser is endearing in Japanese director Hikari's second feature, but it tries too hard to tug at our heartstrings.

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Ryuichi Ichinokawa's life could be right out of the movie “Rental Family” as the founder nearly two decades ago of the Heart ...

It isn’t difficult to see why Brendan Fraser decided to choose the drama Rental Family as his follow-up to The Whale.

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