Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Austere, beautiful...I'll be thinking about Kumiko's journey for a long time.
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
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. She 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. Thinking this treasure is real, she leaves behind Tokyo and her beloved rabbit Bunzo to recover it – and finds herself on a dangerous adventure unlike anything she’s seen in the movies.
With Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter, indie mavericks the Zellner Bros. spin a strangely touching underdog fable, populated by eccentrics and elevated to sonic heights by a Sundance award-winning score from electro-indie outfit The Octopus Project, that will leave audiences rooting for the impossible.
With Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter, indie mavericks the Zellner Bros. spin a strangely touching underdog fable, populated by eccentrics and elevated to sonic heights by a Sundance award-winning score from electro-indie outfit The Octopus Project, that will leave audiences rooting for the impossible.
Genre
Drama
Runtime
105
Language
English,
Japanese
Director
David Zellner
Cast
Rinko Kikuchi
FEATURED REVIEW
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Let’s begin by imagining a whimsical indie film about the nutty Japanese obsession with pop-culture ephemera, focused on a lonely but indomitable woman who becomes fixated on the details of “Fargo,” the Coen brothers movie from 1996. Sounds wistful and sweet and full of small moments of meaning and ...
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