Family Romance, LLC (2019)

63% User Rating

1h 50min

"Followers, friends, family. All available for hire."

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.

Werner HerzogDirector

Cast

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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

All Reviews

badelf

Rating 60%

March 26, 2025

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.