About this episode

The episode explores the Japanese family-for-hire industry through a review of the film Rental Family.

This week, two gaijin (outsiders) explore the Japanese family-for-hire industry with a review of Rental Family , co-written and directed by Hikari. Check us out on... Twitter @ TSMoviePod Facebook: Time Sensitive Instagram: @ timesensitivepodcast Grab some Merch at TeePublic Big Heads Media

Topics covered

• Japanese culture
• family-for-hire
• film review
• outsiders
• comedy

Keywords

• Rental Family
• Japanese family-for-hire
• Hikari
• film review
• gaijin

Mentioned in this episode

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Products: Merch

Books & works: Rental Family

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