Where to watch Rental Family? Streaming details of the Brendan Fraser movie, explored

Rental Family is a film in the comedy-drama genre. It's directed by Hikari, who has also written the screenplay with Stephen Blahut. The film premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival and was released theatrically by Searchlight Pictures on November 21, 2025. Here's the official synopsis as per Letterboxd:

An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese ‘rental family’ agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients’ worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.

Let's find out its streaming details.

Where to watch Rental Family?

Rental Family dropped on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ on Wednesday, February 18, 2026. The film was made available to buy or rent on digital platforms on January 13. It's available on platforms like Apple TV, Fandango, and Amazon Prime Video.

Rental Family was produced by Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev, Hikari, and Shin Yamaguchi. Its production banners include Sight Unseen Productions and Domo Arigato Productions. The cast members include,

Brendan Fraser as Phillip Vanderploeg
Takehiro Hira as Shinji
Mari Yamamoto as Aiko
Tamae Ando as Lola
Shannon Mahina Gorman as Mia Kawasaki
Misato Morita as Yoshie
Akira Emoto as Kikuo Hasegawa
Shino Shinozaki as Hitomi
Kimura Bun as Kota
Sei Matobu as Masami Hasegawa

The film is shot by Takurō Ishizaka, while Alan Baumgarten and Thomas A. Krueger are the editors. The music is composed by Jónsi and Alex Somers. The film met with positive reviews. It was mentioned in the top ten of the National Board of Review list.

In a Deadline interview, director Hikari revealed how he got the film's idea with co-writer Stephen Blahut.

"It’s funny because when he told me about it, it was just kind of instinctive. I was like, “Oh, wow. There’s a story. We should make a movie about it.” It was just literally that instant, the inspiration. I always listen to my gut. That’s how I guide my life. So when I felt it, I was like, that has to be a story. I know there’s got to be a story. In Japan, we always had renting a girlfriend or renting older men to give you wise advice, or even renting the lap for a cuddling service."

He added,

"When I was 19, I had a job in a department store [in Japan]. The job was specifically called “mannequin”, meaning you get hired by all the departments, so I would go up to the seventh floor, the department stores are usually 13 floors, and then every department, every floor, has different stuff. On the seventh floor, they’ll be like, “OK, tomorrow you’re going to go sell shoes, but the shoes are specifically for bunions. So, I’d go up to the seventh floor and then pretend to be the professional of bunioned feet."

Hikari made his feature-length debut with the 2019 Japanese film 37 Seconds. He has also directed television series like Tokyo Vice and Beef.