Rental Family is a film in the comedy-drama genre. It's directed by Hikari, who has also written the screenplay with Stephen Blahut.

Brendan Fraser has been on a roll since making his big Hollywood comeback in Darren Aronofsky's The Whale in 2022. The role won him an Academy Award for best actor at the 2023 Oscars. Just last week, ...

The Italian Job brings together a star-studded cast, including Mark Wahlberg, Jason Statham, and Charlize Theron, in a thrilling heist movie.

…and hired to be a friend to a dying old man. This stuff really happens in Japan!

In "Rental Family," Brendan Fraser plays Phillip Vandarpleog, an American expat in Japan who is "searching for purpose and ...

Mari Yamamoto and Brendan Fraser in 'Rental Family' (Searchlight Pictures) Recently someone asked me what movie I was about to review, which as you can imagine happens a lot. I told them, “It’s this ...

There are about one million rent-stabilized units in New York City, and fewer than 25,000 rent-controlled units. By Jill Terreri Ramos Q: I live in a rent-stabilized apartment in a 16-unit building in ...

The recent film Rental Family, starring Brendan Fraser and directed by Hikari, has put a spotlight on a social phenomenon in contemporary Japanese culture: hiring actors to play family members, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On the last day of the year, Eric Adams’s attempt to stack the Rent Guidelines Board fell apart: Both of his picks for one of the public-member seats dropped out. With that seat empty and four ...

Mayor Eric Adams’ efforts to stack the Rent Guidelines Board have hit a snag. Lliam Finn, a senior financial advisor with Merrill Lynch, has decided against serving as a public representative on the ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s “freeze the rent” pledge for New York City’s 1 million rent-stabilized apartments was his best-known campaign initiative. But making good on that promise may require him ...