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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Description
Frustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Believing it to be a treasure map indicating the location of a large case of money, she sets out her quest.
Frustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Believing it to be a treasure map indicating the location of a large case of money, she sets out her quest.
Actors:
Asami Tano,
Mihoka Tomoda,
Anna Wakamori,
Nathan Zellner,
Kanako Higashi,
Hitomi Sawano,
Ayaka Ohnishi,
Yumiko Hioki,
Nobuyuki Katsube,
Mayuko Kawakita,
Ariei Umefune,
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Asami Tano
Mihoka Tomoda
Anna Wakamori
Nathan Zellner
2 August 1975, Greeley, Colorado, USA
Kanako Higashi
Hitomi Sawano
Ayaka Ohnishi
Yumiko Hioki
Nobuyuki Katsube
23 May 1938, Tokyo, Japan
Mayuko Kawakita
Ariei Umefune
Genre:
Drama
Director:
David Zellner
David Zellner
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#David Zellner #Kanako Higashi #Kumiko #Nobuyuki Katsube #Rinko Kikuchi #the Treasure Hunter
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March 10, 2017
With sparse dialogue, the film hinges on an incredible performance from Rinko Kikuchi as office-girl outsider Kumiko, who can hurt your heart with just a little flick of her eye.
June 21, 2016
As the film uncomfortably unfolds to an inevitable conclusion, nihilistic overtones encapsulate any emotional connection to her struggle.
April 03, 2015
File this one under "odd and interesting but ... "
May 23, 2016
Fortunately, the Zellners have better plans for their heroine in Kumiko's delirious, wonderfully improbable, and probably surrealistic, ending.
April 02, 2015
In the title role, Kikuchi is impressive, easily handling Kumiko's comic and more somber sides and never allowing us to settle into a single or simple interpretation of the character.
April 15, 2015
A great film for people who are tired of associating the color black with sadness and despair: now, both of those things are available in snowy white!
April 02, 2015
If you're in the mood for something different, you're in luck: "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" takes elements of the traditional quest story into completely new places.
April 03, 2015
If Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter takes its time, it's time worth taking.
October 04, 2016
An assured and ambitious arthouse odyssey from the Zelners, with the wonderful, wistful Rinko Kikuchi at its core.
January 04, 2016
A wonderfully accessible indie dark comic tale about movie obsessions.
December 15, 2015
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.
May 24, 2016
Unfortunately, Treasure opened too early in the year for short attention span Academy members, because Rinko Kikuchi seriously merits consideration for her second Oscar nom.
