Top billed cast

1. 

   Brendan Fraser

   Phillip Vanderploeg

2. 

   Takehiro Hira

   Shinji Tada

3. 

   Mari Yamamoto

   Aiko Nakajima

4. 

   Shannon Mahina Gorman

   Mia Kawasaki

5. 

   Akira Emoto

   Kikuo Hasegawa

6. 

   Paolo Andrea Di Pietro

   Handsome Actor

7. 

   Shinji Ozeki

   Casting Director

8. 

   Takao Kin

   Bartender

9. 

   Risa Kameda

   Neighbor Girlfriend

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-01-21

My, how Brendan Fraser has come on since his beefcake gardener days of “Gods and Monsters” (1998). Move on a quarter of a century and he’s “Philip”. A struggling American actor trying to make a living in Japan. He’s fluent, but thus far his success has been limited to a toothpaste advertising campaign that saw him in a cape with pearly white teeth. He makes ends meet by doing the ultimate in anonymous extras work. He turns up, unrehearsed, at events - like funerals - and gets paid what amounts to appearance money for looking sad! It’s at one of those gatherings that he meets “T...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$26,585,129.00

Keywords

• self-discovery
• tokyo, japan
• candid
• social isolation
• actor
• emotional healing
• inner conflict
• rental family
• bold
• hopeful
• human connection
• search for identity
• surrogate roles
• emotional bonding
• expatriate life
• personal tragedy
• professional actor
• longing for belonging
• coping with grief