The film's director and actors share insight with TODAY.com about the real-life rental family business in Japan.

TOKYO (AP) — Ryuichi Ichinokawa’s life could be right out of the movie “Rental Family” as the founder nearly two decades ago ...

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

The new film follows Fraser's character, an actor named Phillip Vandarploeug, who lands an unusual gig at a Japanese "rental family" agency to play a stand-in role for strangers. The job becomes much ...

The Oscar winner plays an American actor in Japan who gets a job with an agency that makes performers available to fill the ...

A heartfelt look at Rental Family’s final shrine scene. Here's how Philip’s discovery of self-worth and inner connection ...

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Oscar winner Brendan Fraser filmed his new movie "Rental Family" in Tokyo. Now he knows a little Japanese alongside "some bad ...

It is not. You’ll only be able to go see “Rental Family” in theaters for the time being. However, the film comes from ...

Set against modern-day Tokyo, RENTAL FAMILY follows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find purpose until he ...

Brendan Fraser has a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, a new movie, Rental Family, warming audiences and critics in ...

Those global experiences helped inform Rental Family, a tender drama starring Brendan Fraser as an American actor who has ...