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Released
2025 · FILM

Rental Family

An aimless American actor in Tokyo takes a job with a Japanese “rental family” agency, posing as strangers’ loved ones to earn a living, only to find his fabricated roles spiraling into real relationships that threaten to blur the line between performance and his own identity.

“Happiness tailored to you!”

Directed by
Hikari
Written by
Hikari, Stephen Blahut
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
109 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

An American actor living in Tokyo grapples with a sense of direction until he secures an unconventional job working for a Japanese "rental family" agency, where he plays stand-in roles for strangers. As he becomes more involved in his clients' lives, he starts to develop real connections that challenge the boundaries between acting and authenticity.

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A crew of 141+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Alan BaumgartenShot by Takuro IshizakaScored by Jon Thor BirgissonDesigned by Norihiro Isoda

Box Office

2025 · Box office

Grossed $26.6M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$26.6M

Worldwide gross$26.6M

US & Canada: $10.0M — 38% of worldwide · International: $16.5M (62%)

Opening weekend: $3.3M — 33% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $5.3M — 53% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,925 theaters

Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • CanadaSep 6, 2025
  • SwitzerlandSep 26, 2025
  • BrazilOct 5, 2025
  • United StatesOct 9, 2025

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