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‘Rental Family’ director recalls moving to US at 17
Hikari, a Japanese filmmaker, has made a new movie titled Rental Family, which reflects her experience when she moved to the US at the age of 17.
As it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, the director shares, “I came to America when I was 17 for the first time, and I landed in Utah.”
She continues, “That was my first place to learn English. I was the only Asian girl in the entire city, I felt like…. I had to learn English, and I had to learn the culture.”
So, for the movie, Hikari says, she re-imagines her experience by swapping herself with an American in Japanese society.
“So, for me, bringing somebody — American guy — to Tokyo, what does that look like? Because there’s a lot of things that you learn when you’re the only person in the room,” the director notes.
Brendan Fraser, who stars in the movie, recalls discussing the film’s idea with the filmmaker Hikari.
“I learned about her life, about her aspirations, her interests, her unique experience of coming to America, and what that meant about the family that we find, and it not necessarily being the one that we’re born into sometimes,” The Mummy star adds.
He remembers, “I was perplexed and mystified and invigorated in all the best ways possible for meeting Hikari. And then…”
“Hey, I knew this story was unique. It’s something that we need to see on screen,” Brendan concludes. “And correct me if I’m wrong, I think we need to see this movie now more than ever these days.”
The film’s logline reads that an American actor goes to Japan in hopes of securing his big break. After that doesn’t work out, he takes up a job at an agency which hires actors to do stand-in roles for their clients.”
Rental Family bows out in cinemas on Nov 21.
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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle’s Archewell foundation under suspicion over making big numbers
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Archewell empire is back in the spotlight and this time it’s the numbers doing the talking.
Fresh financial filings for 2024 paint a messy picture behind the glossy rebrand to “Archewell Philanthropies,” with donations plunging, vague expenses exploding and end of year liabilities shooting up in ways that have left charity watchers openly baffled.
Contributions fell sharply from roughly £3.96 million in 2023 to just £1.57 million in 2024.
Insiders pointed out that almost the entire year’s haul appears to hinge on a single $2 million donation routed through the Silicon Valley Community Foundation believed by critics to be linked to the same mystery donor who quietly funnelled £7.5 million to Archewell back in 2021.
Despite the cash drop, grant-giving stayed stubbornly steady at around £975,000, with the Sussexes’ pet causes still well fed.
The biggest slice went to the “Welcome Project,” split across a dozen groups, while headline cheques included £112,000 to Screen Sanity for online safety, £94,000 to the NAACP and £75,000 to the Hopelab Foundation.
Notably missing this year was Ashley Biden’s wellness project, which had previously benefited from Archewell largesse.
Where things really get spicy is spending. Employee pay remained eye wateringly high for a charity of this size, with top executives pocketing six-figure salaries even as reports swirled of staff being quietly let go during the rebrand.
By the end of 2024, Archewell’s liabilities had surged by more than £600,000 compared to the previous year.
While the foundation insists everything is above board, watchdogs note that the foundation still clears the threshold requiring it to file public IRS disclosures.
Prince Harry and Meghan who preach transparency and compassion, Archewell’s latest figures read less like a fairy tale and more like a financial cliffhanger.
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