Drama

Family Romance, LLC

Name: Family Romance, LLC
Director: Werner Herzog
Genre: Drama
Released: 2019-10-24
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Yuichi Ishii, Mahiro Tanimoto, Miki Fujimaki, Takashi Nakatani, Yuka Watanabe

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6.2(77) 10/24/2019 1h 50m

Drama

Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.

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Top Cast

Yuichi Ishii

Mahiro Tanimoto

Mahiro

Miki Fujimaki

Mahiro's Mother

Takashi Nakatani

Father of Bride / Lottery Official

Yuka Watanabe

Bride

Jin Kuroinu

Ishii's Friend

Airi Coats

Mahiro's Little Friend

Shun Ishigaki

Pantomime

Directed by

Werner Herzog

Production

Skellig Rock

Reviews

badelf

6/10

3/26/2025

As much as I love Herzog and his particular guerilla film style, this one left me cold. I've been in Japan and can totally believe that someone would hire a father of the bride. The characters are not quite believable.

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