HIKARI and Academy-Award winning actor Brendan Fraser (\u201cThe Whale,\u201d \u201cGeorge of the Jungle\u201d) return to the film festival circuit with their tender Tokyo comedy-drama, \u201cRental Family.\u201d Fraser here plays Philip, the \u201ctoken white guy\u201d for hire at a small Japanese rental family company. Over the course of the film, Philip plays the role of groom, friend, journalist, and most importantly, father. This heartwarming feature reminds both Philip and the rest of us how the tendrils of genuine human connection can blossom, even while on the job.<\/p>\n
We spoke with HIKARI the morning after her film closed out the 48th Mill Valley Film Festival. In this Zoom call, Grace Han and HIKARI talk about the many meta-narratives of \u201cRental Family\u201d: first her own story as the child of a single mother; then of Fraser\u2019s role as a performer; her own experience working with Searchlight Pictures; and finally, of capturing images of far-off lands for film.<\/p>\n
You can catch RENTAL FAMILY in North American theaters starting November 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HIKARI and Academy-Award winning actor Brendan Fraser (\u201cThe Whale,\u201d \u201cGeorge of the Jungle\u201d) return to the film festival…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,96871,38557,409,111,139,69,9466],"class_list":["post-144177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-hikari","tag-mill-valley-film-festival","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rental-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}