Japanese filmmaker Hikari will direct a brand new comedy-drama movie for Disney-owned Searchlight Pictures.

According to leisure information outlet Variety, the studio has picked up the rights to the challenge, titled ”Rental Family”, which has a script by Hikari and Stephen Blahut.

Hikari, most lately directed three episodes of Netflix’s critically-acclaimed sequence ”Beef”, starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, may also produce the challenge.

”Rental Family” follows a down and out actor dwelling in Tokyo, who’s employed as a token American man for a Japanese rental household firm, main him on an sudden journey of self-discovery via the roles he performs in different individuals’s lives.

The challenge can be produced by Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedevof Sight Unseen in addition to Shin Yamaguchi.

”Rental Family” will quickly begin principal images in Japan.

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