Release Date
March 13, 2015 (Limited)
DVD Release Date
June 30, 2015 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
David Zellner
Writer
David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
Cast
Rinko Kikuchi, Nobuyuki Katsube, Shirley Venard, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
Studio
Running Time
105 minutes
MPA Rating
Unrated
What is Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter about?
In this darkly comedic odyssey, Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi (Babel, Pacific Rim) stars as Kumiko, a frustrated Office Lady whose imagination transcends the confines of her mundane life. Kumiko becomes obsessed with a mysterious, battered VHS tape of a popular film she's mistaken for a documentary, fixating on a scene where a suitcase of stolen cash is buried in the desolate, frozen landscape of North Dakota. Believing this treasure to be real, she leaves... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
Ever wonder what happened to that money that was buried in the snow in the movie Fargo? Me neither, but in the wistfully entrancing Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, a lonely Japanese woman, fueled by loneliness and likely something much sadder, sets out for Minnesota, convinced the money is real and waiting to be discovered.
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