Rental Family 🇯🇵

About this episode

Colson discusses the film Rental Family, featuring Brendan Fraser as an American actor in Tokyo who finds purpose through an unusual job.

Colson is picking this weeks film, its Rental Family, Brendan Fraser plays an American actor in Tokyo struggling to find purpose lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese "rental family" agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. He rediscovers purpose, belonging, and the beauty of human connection. Make sure to leave us a review wherever you're listening to the podcast! 🎧 Subscribe and follow so you never miss an episode. 📱 Follow us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onthesofashow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onthesofashow/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@onthesofashow X: https://x.com/OnTheSofaShow 💬 Get in touch: Email: Hello@OnTheSofaShow.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Colson

Topics covered

• film
• purpose
• human connection
• comedy
• after-shows

Keywords

• Rental Family
• Brendan Fraser
• Tokyo
• purpose
• human connection
• comedy
• film

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Audio Always

Books & works: Rental Family

Places: Tokyo

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