Release Date: 2019-10-24
Overview: 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.
Rating: 6.189 / 10
Yuichi Ishii
as Yuichi Ishii
Mahiro Tanimoto
as Mahiro
Miki Fujimaki
as Mahiro's Mother
Takashi Nakatani
as Father of Bride / Lottery Official
Yuka Watanabe
as Bride
Werner Herzog - Writer
Ernst Reijseger - Original Music Composer
Werner Herzog - Director of Photography
Bruce Lomet - Digital Intermediate Producer
Werner Herzog - Director
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...