Asian A.V. Club podcast: Hang with Hikari

Welcome back to the Asian A.V. Club podcast series HANG! On this episode, we talk to director, writer and producer Hikari about her latest seasonal gem feature Rental Family.

Total NERD disclosure, I’ve been a fan of director Hikari after I saw her name appear in a few episodes of the Emmy winning Netflix series Beef and was even more intrigued when I realized it was the creative moniker of Osaka born Mitsuyo Miyazaki, who chose the word "Hikari" as her name.

Rental Family, is an actual true service in Japan where individuals can hire 'actors' to play different roles for different needs in their lives, In the film, a lonely isolated out of work western actor, played by Brenden Fraser (Philip), is hired as a token white guy to enter various lives including an alleged journalist asked to interview a legendar ...