Hikari | 2025 | USA | 109 Minutes
Friday 8:00pm | TEATRO PESTAÑA

STARRING: Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira & Mari Yamamoto

SYNOPSIS

An American actor in Tokyo struggling to find purpose lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese "rental family" agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. He rediscovers purpose, belonging, and the beauty of human connection..

As he immerses himself in his clients' worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality. Confronting the moral complexities of his work, he rediscovers purpose, belonging, and the quiet beauty of human connection.

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DID YOU KNOW?

  • Rental families have been around in Japan since the 1980s and added that there are about 300 companies that offer clients with professional actors to portray friends, family members or co-workers at events like weddings.

  • Brendan Fraser took Japanese classes to prepare for the role, but still learned much of his Japanese dialogue phonetically on set by mimicking lines fed to him, with help from his Japanese co-stars.

  • This film has more than one similarity with Family Romance, LLC written and directed by Werner Herzog in 2019 that premiered at Cannes Film Festival the same year.