HIRE A MIDDLE-AGED MANThe movie Rental Family stars Brendan Fraser as an American actor in Japan who gets an unusual gig. He works for a “rental family service,” whose actors impersonate roles in everyday life rather than playing parts for movies or TV. Rental family services really do exist in Japan, and while many of them involve the actor carrying out some type of deception, not all of them do. In 2012, 45-year-old Takanobu Nishimoto launched a business called Ossan Rental. You can try this by traveling to the northern town of Ōtsuchi and talking into a phone booth set up for this express purpose.