By skyforbes 
4 **** out of 5 stars
Rental Family
Directed by Hikari
Written by Hikari
Starring Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Akira Emoto, Mari Yamamoto
Release Date November 21st, 2025
Rental Family begins with a scene that perfectly captures the film’s tone — darkly comic, quietly emotional, and just strange enough to make you lean in closer. Phillip (Brendan Fraser), a struggling actor living in Japan, shows up late for what he believes is a paying gig. Instead, he walks in on a funeral with no cameras, no director, and no crew. Just a woman delivering a eulogy… and the man in the coffin suddenly sitting up to smile at her.
What starts as surreal humor becomes unexpectedly poignant when Phillip learns the truth: the funeral was staged by Shinji (Takehiro Hira) for a lonely man who hired actors to mourn him so he could feel loved, even briefly.
This, Phillip quickly discovers, is the world of Rental Family -a service where people hire actors…