2Its clock, and the show’s

First talked about in episode 35, 3 months after its release.

Release Film Gamed Maher Mosly An episode that discusses it (press to play)

3What critics and audiences made of it

These are other people’s scores, not Mahmoud’s or Maher’s. Theirs is in the episode.

7.5/10

IMDb users68.4k votes

7.5: higher than 71% of the 406 titles Harvesting discussed. It ranks 98th.

FilmSeriesThis titleEvery dot is a title from the archive. Press one to go to it.

4What it cost, what it made

It took $27M, number 158 of the 223 films in the archive.

Box office $27M #158

TMDB figures in US dollars, worldwide, not adjusted for inflation. # = its place among the archive’s films. Each notch on the bar is one whole budget.

208 films from Harvesting: budget against box office

5Who’s in it

Director · Writer Hikari
Writer Stephen Blahut
Music Jon Thor Birgisson
Music Alex Somers
Cinematography Takuro Ishizaka
Editor Alan Baumgarten also Being the Ricardos
Editor Thomas A. Krueger

+1 Brendan Fraser Phillip Vanderploeg
Takehiro Hira Shinji Tada
+1 Mari Yamamoto Aiko Nakajima
Shannon Mahina Gorman Mia Kawasaki
Akira Emoto Kikuo Hasegawa
Paolo Andrea Di Pietro Handsome Actor
Shinji Ozeki Casting Director
Takao Kin Bartender

Threads to other titles on the show

6Where to watch it

Not available to watch in Egypt right now, according to JustWatch.

Watch data by JustWatch, via TMDB, as of 21 October 2026.

7The index card

Rental Family· 2025

An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese 'rental family' agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients' worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.

self-discoverytokyo, japancandidsocial isolationactoremotional healinginner conflictrental familyboldhopefulhuman connectionsearch for identitysurrogate rolesemotional bonding

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