badelf
3/26/2025
6.0
As much as I love Herzog and his particular guerilla film style, this one left me cold. I've been in Japan and can totally believe that someone would hire a father of the bride. The characters are not quite believable.
Feature2019·110m·6.2
Family Romance, LLC
Followers, friends, family. All available for hire.
Drama
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.
Cast
Yuichi Ishii
Yuichi Ishii
Mahiro Tanimoto
Mahiro
Miki Fujimaki
Mahiro's Mother
Takashi Nakatani
Father of Bride / Lottery Official
Yuka Watanabe
Bride
Jin Kuroinu
Ishii's Friend
Airi Coats
Mahiro's Little Friend
Shun Ishigaki
Pantomime
Tatsuaki Hôjô
Bullet Train Official
Tetsuro Mori
Bullet Train Employee
Ryoko Sugimachi
Lottery Winner
Airi Asoh
Woman at Fox Shrine
Yuki Wakabayashi
Hedgehog Cafe Worker
Umetani Hideyasu
Robot Hotel Manager
Iwamoto Eisuke
Funeral Home Manager
Take Nakamura
Oracle
Yuika Koide
Ishii's Infant Child
Sumire Nagai
Idol with Paparazzi
Ryosuke Nakanishi
Paparazzi
Mayu Nakamura
Paparazzi
Details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Languages
- Japanese
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- —
- Age rating
- —
- Quality
- 4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
- Production
- Skellig Rock
Crew
Director
Werner Herzog
Writers
Werner Herzog
Ernst Reijseger
Original Music Composer
Werner Herzog
Director of Photography
Sean Scannell
Editor
