- Drama
- 110 min
- NR
Rotten Tomatoes74%Metacritic68IMDb6.7
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Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.
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Contemporary, prestige, grave and contemplative.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
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Cast
- Yuichi IshiiYuichi Ishii
- Mahiro TanimotoMahiro
- Miki FujimakiMahiro's Mother
- Takashi NakataniFather of Bride / Lottery Official
- Yuka WatanabeBride
- Jin KuroinuIshii's Friend
- Airi CoatsMahiro's Little Friend
- Shun IshigakiPantomime
- Tatsuaki HôjôBullet Train Official
- Tetsuro MoriBullet Train Employee
Crew
- Werner HerzogDirector
- Werner HerzogWriter
- Werner HerzogDirector of Photography
- Ernst ReijsegerOriginal Music Composer
- Sean ScannellEditor
- Roc MorinProducer
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