Letterboxd — Your life in film

You'd be forgiven for thinking Werner Herzog's latest docudrama was pure mockumentary, but as far as I can tell from a quick Google search, Ishii Yuichi is a real guy and his rent-a-stranger business, Family Romance, is a going concern. The idea of renting out actors to play relatives or acquaintances in peoples' everyday lives - husbands, wives, fathers, co-workers etc - is bizarre on the face of it, but it's a real phenomena that also featured in the BBC's…