"Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" Topic
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| Tango01 | 22 Dec 2014 11:28 a.m. PST |
"So this movie has a really strange origin story. Rinko Kikuchi (Pacific Rim) plays Kumiko, an office worker with nothing special going on in her life, until she finds a copy of the movie Fargo on VHS. This wouldnft normally change anyonefs life, but Kumiko is desperate for a purpose, and out of that desperation, becomes convinced that Fargo is a documentary about a man (as in, Steve Buscemifs character) who buried a substantial sum of money in the wilds of North Dakota. So, Kumiko sets out to find the buried treasure. She leaves her job and Japan and everything she knows to make her way through the snows of Dakota. The crazy part is, Kumiko is based on a real person named Takako Konishi. Konishifs body was found in North Dakota in 2001, and for years the prevailing theory was that she died in pursuit of exhuming Buscemifs buried loot. That version of events was a href=hhttp://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/jun/06/artsfeatures1 target=h_blankh>debunked in 2003, but movies donft have to be true, so we get the weird universe in which a young Japanese woman ditches her whole life to scour the great white American north for hidden cash. Gotta love the movies." YouTube link ??? This was real? Amicalement
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| DyeHard | 22 Dec 2014 11:53 a.m. PST |
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| Chalfant | 22 Dec 2014 12:14 p.m. PST |
Certainly a sad, depressing story… though the real reason seems a bit more plausible than the movie angle, its still sad. Chalfant |
| tberry7403 | 22 Dec 2014 3:55 p.m. PST |
…but movies don't have to be true… A truer statement has never been made.  |
| Twilight Samurai | 22 Dec 2014 6:56 p.m. PST |
Yeah, I've had enough of all this Christmas cheer too! Two thumbs up! |
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