Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)
Directed by David Zellner
Frustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Fixating on a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota, she travels to America to find it.
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Instead of tilting at windmills, her Kumiko is convinced she sees treasure where everyone else sees Roger Deakins’ memorable snowy-white landscapes from the Coen brothers classic, “Fargo.”
Rinko Kikuchi does her best to give weight to the slight protagonist, a lonely and unhappy Japanese woman who finds an old VHS of Fargo and – believing the story to be true – sets out to retrieve the cash buried by Steve Buscemi in the Coens' crime drama.
She travels to Minnesota, questing for the briefcase full of money Steve Buscemi's character buried in the snow at the end of "Fargo."
After being nudged by her boss Sakagami (Nobuyuki Katsube) as being on the aged side for an office lady at 29, the lonely outcast decides to take action on the treasure she's been charting from the 'true story' of "Fargo" which she's been analyzing via a beat up VHS tape and become "Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter."
"Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" is a moody comic allegory about desperation, disconnection and dreams that uses "Fargo," the Coen brothers classic, as a touchstone to examine modern life.