Need a fake relative? Werner Herzog uncovers Japan's 'exploding' family rental business.

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The acclaimed filmmaker explores an unusual booming business in his new film 'Family Romance LLC.' He also tells us he knew 'Parasite' would 'be so big.'

, in which patrons can hire paid performers to play their friends, family members, or even “fans.”

“It’s exploding,” Herzog told Yahoo Entertainment of the stand-in industry during a recent Zoom interview . The filmmaker says that when he first contacted Yuichi Ishi — the real-life head ofwho stars as a man conflicted when he develops paternal feelings for the girl whose mother has hired him to pose as a long-lost father — had “800 or 900 agents that he sent out. When I arrived a few months later, it was already 1,400. There are now about 2,000 of them.

“Competing companies have sprung up. They are springing up here [in the United States] as well. It has to do with existential solitudes of aging populations. It has to do with existential solitude of young people who are too much on Facebook, and rely on friendships that are only virtual and not for real.”

 

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