Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Presented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF
Directed by David Zellner
2014, 105 minutes, unrated, English and Japanese (with English subtitles), Amplify Releasing
2014 Special Jury Prize, Sundance and Fantasia Film Festivals
Nominated for Best Director and Best Female Lead, 2015 Independent Spirit Awards
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 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.
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