One day he rushes to a very confusing booking where he's playing a funeral guest and the "deceased" is very much alive.
It turns out he's been subcontracted by a "Rental family" company that hires out actors to play parts in a range of situations that exist on a kind of continuity through LARP to therapy, social work, fetish and in some cases victimless deception.
The company owner Shinji (Takehiro Hira) offers Phillip more work and after some initial hesitancy he begins to take on longer term roles.
CW: anybody who's ever done any kind of safeguarding training will want to scream at the screen about how unethical and risky this all is under the cover of "Japan being quirky"
Pitched with a kind of "melancholy but heart-warming" tone this piece from Hikari aims for uplifting but mostly hits unsurprising.
Phillip ends up with a couple of long term jobs, both of which are fraught with moral concerns that do come up but are then handwaved with a "hey look how scrappy we are" shrug.
That's not to say I didn't enjoy it but it's pitched semi-seriously then just kind of Hallmark movies its way through things when the going gets tough.
OK, not great 6/10 mostly because it was so, so predictable.