Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter

In this darkly comedic odyssey, Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi (Babel, Pacific Rim) stars as Kumiko, a frustrated office worker whose imagination transcends the confines of her mundane life.

Kumiko becomes obsessed with a mysterious, battered VHS tape of Fargo - which she has 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.

Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for an Audience Award at SXSW Film Festival.

"The entrancing fifth feature of the Zellner brothers, KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER, is like found art in the beguiling, haunting manner it combines the seemingly ridiculous and desperate with an ineffable and quiet sadness." - Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Sun-Times