Rental Household, Beef director Hikari’s comedy drama and potential awards contender starring Oscar winner Brendan Fraser and Shogun’s Takehiro Hira, has been scheduled to open by way of Searchlight Footage on November 21.
The movie follows Fraser as a struggling actor in Tokyo who begins working for a Japanese ‘rental household’ as a stand-in to supply help in shoppers’ lives, gaining insights alongside the way in which. Sight Unseen and Knockonwood are the manufacturing firms.
Hikari directed episodes of the Netflix present Beef and HBO Max’s Tokyo Vice in addition to 2019 Berlinale Panorama viewers award (fiction) winner 37 Seconds. She co-wrote the screenplay with Stephen Blahut.
Fraser received the lead actor Oscar for his portrayal as a lonely, estranged father in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale in 2023.
It was unclear at time of writing if Rental Household will safe a competition launch earlier than the official launch date. Ought to Searchlight be eying a splashy world premiere berth, the apparent candidates for awards hopefuls are the early fall trifecta of Venice, Telluride, and Toronto, with New York, London and AFI Fest coming later within the season.
Searchlight’s A Actual Ache from Jesse Eisenberg garnered two Oscar nominations earlier this yr, successful greatest supporting actor for Kieran Culkin. The studio will open Jay Roach comedy The Roses starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch on August 29.