Searchlight Pictures’ Rental Family is heading home from Japan to screens everywhere. Today, it was announced that the film will be available for digital download starting on January 13 on platforms like Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. This will be followed by a Blu-ray release on February 17, 2026.

The film stars Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser. This release will also include some bonus features. The trailer, description, and details about the bonus features can be found here:

Rental Family Official Description

Set in modern-day Tokyo, HIKARI’s Rental Family stars Academy Award®–winning Brendan Fraser as a has-been American actor searching for purpose and belonging in a society where he feels increasingly adrift. An unexpected acting call leads him to a “rental family” agency, where he is hired to play stand-in roles for strangers seeking connection. As performance begins to blur with reality, the immersive role-playing awakens his humanity and compassion, drawing him deeply into his clients’ lives and pushing him off-script whenever his empathetic heart takes over. Searchlight’s Rental Family channels the emotional depth of award-winning director, producer, and co-writer HIKARI (Beef, Tokyo Vice, 37 Seconds), who believes cinema “allows us to view others with empathy, creates space for conversation, and see parts of ourselves we did not know existed.”
 
Produced by Eddie Vaisman, p.g.a, Julia Lebedev, p.g.a, HIKARI, p.g.a, and Shin Yamaguchi, p.g.a, Rental Family also stars Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Gorman, and Akira Emoto.

Digital & Blu-ray Bonus Materials*

• Featurette: Rental Family Revealed — Go behind the scenes with Brendan Fraser, director HIKARI, and the Japanese cast as they explore friendship, culture, found family, and filming in Japan in this intimate look at the making of Rental Family.
• Deleted/Extended Scenes:
  • Columbus
  • Crying Session
  • Apology
  • Aiko’s First Client
  • Clearbright
  • Tickets
  • Audition
  • Phone Call
  • Final Montage

*Bonus features may vary by product and retailer.

Are you excited about the release of this film? Did you see it in theaters? If so, what did you think? Are you going to watch it at home? Share your thoughts and opinions in the comments below!