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Rental Family

Rental Family

7,8 /10 (814 Votes)
2025 EN 110 min

Overview

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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Release date

20/11/2025

Votes

814

Popularity

6.2

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Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

110 min

Revenue

$26,585,129

Brendan Fraser

Brendan Fraser

Phillip Vanderploeg

Takehiro Hira

Takehiro Hira

Shinji Tada

Mari Yamamoto

Mari Yamamoto

Aiko Nakajima

Shannon Mahina Gorman

Shannon Mahina Gorman

Mia Kawasaki

Akira Emoto

Akira Emoto

Kikuo Hasegawa

Paolo Andrea Di Pietro

Paolo Andrea Di Pietro

Handsome Actor

Shinji Ozeki

Shinji Ozeki

Casting Director

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Takao Kin

Bartender

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Risa Kameda

Neighbor Girlfriend

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Yuma Sonan

Neighbor Boyfriend

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Kana Kitty

Neighbor Business Woman

Gan Furukawa

Gan Furukawa

Neighbor Old Man

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Yuji Komatsu

Neighbor Father

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Ryoko Osada

Neighbor Wife

Helen Sadler

Helen Sadler

Sonia

Kaoru Mizuki

Kaoru Mizuki

Funeral Home Receptionist

Shohei Uno

Shohei Uno

Mr. Daitoh

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Sonoe Mizoguchi

Daitoh's Mother

Keiji Yamashita

Keiji Yamashita

Daitoh's Father

Bun Kimura

Bun Kimura

Kota Nakano

Yuki Kimura

Yuki Kimura

Toothpaste Commercial Mother

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Tsutomu Osabe

Toothpaste Commercial Father

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Rei Yukinaga

Toothpaste Commercial Son

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Shiho Asami

Toothpaste Commercial Daughter

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Seiga

Cavitx

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Kazue Oda

Toothpaste Commercial Grandma

Misato Morita

Misato Morita

Yoshie Ikeda

Daikichi Sugawara

Daikichi Sugawara

Hideo Ikeda

Hideko Hara

Hideko Hara

Keiko Ikeda

Nanami Kawakami

Nanami Kawakami

Yoshie's Wife, Jun

Tamae Ando

Tamae Ando

Lola

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Kan Kobayashi

Ramen Master

Yuka Itaya

Yuka Itaya

Tada's Fake Wife

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Hinata Kaizu

Tada's Fake Son

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Shino Shinozaki

Hitomi Kawasaki

Masayuki Shida

Masayuki Shida

Humiliated Corporate Executive

Masayo Umezawa

Masayo Umezawa

Mrs. Ogawa

Sei Matobu

Sei Matobu

Masami Hasegawa

Giko

Giko

Elementary School Teacher

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Rihito Tachibana

Elementary School Student

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Haru Naito

Elementary School Student

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Yoshida Sousuke

Elementary School Student

Rikuto Ishizuka

Rikuto Ishizuka

Shion

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Kiyoko Nishimura

Karaoke Client

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Yutaka Saigoh

Gamer Client

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Michiko Aoki

Grandmother Client

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Kenta Imanishi

Male Client

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Yoko Yazawa

Strip Dancer

Mayu Ozawa

Mayu Ozawa

Cheated Wife at Bar

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Masanori Iwasaki

Adulterous Man at Bar

Misuzu Kanno

Misuzu Kanno

School Principal

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Hiro Ueno

School Administrator 1

Tomo Kawaguchi

Tomo Kawaguchi

School Administrator 2

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JJ

Columbus

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Masakazu Saiga

Detective

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Ryuta Kimura

Detective

Kenji Kishida

Kenji Kishida

Adulterous Man at Home

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Moeko Koyama

Cheated Wife at Home

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Brent Marchant

2025-10-22

⭐ 4

Forging personal connections can be difficult enough these days, even in casual circumstances. But what happens when we require someone to play a vital role for a pressing need and no one is available to stand in? That’s when it may be time to place a call to Rental Family, a Tokyo-based company that provides individuals to step in and fill the missing link. It’s also a perfect opportunity to provide work for unemployed actors, giving them a chance to ply their trade and gain experience at broadening the range of their craft while helping out others in times of need. Such is the case for Phill…

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justtoday1992

2025-11-25

I can't wait to watch this movie. It says its already out November 20th but I still can't watch it on here or any server. Will it br up soon?

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Nick

Nick

2025-11-30

⭐ 7

**Good vibes, missed opportunities** Rental Family delivers sweetness with Brendan Fraser charm, but stumbles in its depths Fraser remains the MVP—his gentle giant presence and expressive vulnerability carry this film through its overly sentimental beats. Critics are right that his performance is quietly devastating, conveying awkward tenderness as he navigates Tokyo's morally murky rental family industry. The elderly client's storyline genuinely tugs at the heartstrings, offering the film's most emotionally resonant moments. However, strip away Fraser and the film can't escape its ov…

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2026-01-21

⭐ 7

My, how Brendan Fraser has come on since his beefcake gardener days of “Gods and Monsters” (1998). Move on a quarter of a century and he’s “Philip”. A struggling American actor trying to make a living in Japan. He’s fluent, but thus far his success has been limited to a toothpaste advertising campaign that saw him in a cape with pearly white teeth. He makes ends meet by doing the ultimate in anonymous extras work. He turns up, unrehearsed, at events - like funerals - and gets paid what amounts to appearance money for looking sad! It’s at one of those gatherings that he meets “Tada” (Takehiro H…

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