RENTAL FAMILY

Rental Family

genres:

A lonely, down and out American actor (Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser) living in Tokyo starts working for a Japanese "rental family" company to play various stand-in roles in other people's lives. Along the way, he discovers unexpected joys within his built-in family. RENTAL FAMILY is the latest feature film from director HIKARI (TOKYO VICE, BEEF), who has won multiple awards at HIFF, including her USC thesis short film TSUYAKO (HIFF 2011) and her first narrative feature 37 SECONDS (HIFF 2021). The Festival is honored to open this year with her latest feature from Searchlight Pictures.

Credits

Director(s):

HIKARI

Producer(s):

Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev, HIKARI, Shin Yamaguchi

Writer(s):

HIKARI, Stephen Blahut

Cast:

Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Gorman, and Akira Emoto

Cinematographer(s):

Takuro Ishizaka

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Consolidated Theatres Kahala

Oct 16

Oct 23

Details

Premiere Status:

HAWAI'I PREMIERE

Year:

2025

Running Time:

109 Minutes

Language(s):

English

Subtitles:

Closed Captions (for closed caption devices)

In Person Event Dates:

Oct 16, Oct 23