Ryuichi Ichinokawa's life could be right out of the movie “Rental Family” as the founder nearly two decades ago of the Heart ...

And San Francisco-set ‘Man on the Inside,’ starring Ted Danson, is just as good in Season 2.

Japanese American director Hikari explores the world of a Japanese business that rents out actors to pose as loved ones for ...

In “Rental Family,” a bittersweet dramedy from director Hikari set in Tokyo, Brendan Fraser plays a dad for hire.

It sounds rather like a mixed compliment to say of an actor that he’s persuasive at playing, well, a mediocre actor.

Brendan Fraser is quietly endearing in this fish-out-of-water tale of an American actor in Tokyo who accepts some highly ...

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

But the “rent-a-family” industry is a real phenomenon in Japan. Their actors portray friends, spouses, family members, and ...

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

Hikari’s beautifully moving and affably humorous story of human connection, “Rental Family,” kicks off with one funeral and ...

Three years later, Fraser has his first leading role since, in “Rental Family,” a Tokyo-set drama by the filmmaker Hikari. In ...

Fraser plays a struggling actor in Japan who finds work playing stand-in roles for strangers, blurring the lines between ...