A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.
Direction
Iwai's patient observation of micro-expressions that betray everything
Acting
Kuroki's face doing 90 minutes of silent screaming
Writing
Screenplay that trusts you to read between every single line
Director
Shunji Iwai
Haru Kuroki
Nanami Minagawa
Go Ayano
Yukimasu Amuro
Cocco
Mashiro Satonaka
Hideko Hara
Kayako
Go Jibiki
Tetsuya
Soko Wada
Yuto Takashima
Tomoko Mariya
Harumi Minagawa
Yugo Saso
Katsu
Nana Natsume
Saeko
Akio Kaneda
Hironori
Lily
Tamayo Satonaka
Toru Nomaguchi
Karen Otomo
Yuka Yasuda
Ryota Kobayashi
Hiroshi Ota
Masahiro Noguchi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Iwai was exploring Japan's 'rental family' industry years before it became global news, predicting how digital isolation would create markets for purchased connection.
The 179-minute runtime was deliberately chosen to mirror the exhausting, endless quality of maintaining false personas—Iwai wanted audiences to feel Nanami's fatigue.
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