Fraser, who last appeared at TIFF with Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” (2022) — the role that won him an Academy Award — said the project immediately struck him as unlike anything else in his career.
“It was so far removed from anything I had seen,” Fraser says. “The story is an unusual way to fulfill the needs of people who are bereft of family. And it felt like a film without a villain per se — apart from apathy. That speaks to us at this time.”
The film follows Fraser’s character, Philip Vanderplug, an outsider adrift in Tokyo who becomes entwined in Japan’s little-known “rental family” industry, where people hire stand-ins to play relatives or companions.
Hikari, who has…
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