Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter

Director David Zellner’s intriguing film is rooted in the fusion of real human desperation and masterful cinema fiction. It involves a Japanese woman’s struggle both with her mundane life and her obsession with a mystery suggested by the 1996 film Fargo. Convinced that Fargo is based on a “real story” (it isn’t), Tokyo working-woman Kumiko travels to Minnesota hoping to find a lost bag full of money and thereby change her melancholy existence.