✅ I love Brendan Fraser to death, and this is yet another role I can’t imagine anyone else pulling off.
✅ Lighthearted and grim, bittersweet and touching, profound and sentimental, all in the right doses, perfectly balanced.
✅ So many familiar corners I love and hope to see again this year.
Normally I can’t stand make-believes (or hoaxes), but the script places the protagonist in exactly that spot and—with a clever twist—puts this sentiment to the test right away.
レンタル・ファミリー / Rental Family by HIKARI, 2025.
Watched at the Metropol theater on February 18, 2026, in its original language with subtitles.