We talked previously when the first full trailer debut for Kumiko the Treasure Hunter about how this film is an interesting reverberation of the Fargo film that’s about fifteen years old at this point. The film brings Rinko Kikuchi from Pacific Rim to the forefront here as she travels from Japan to North Dakota to search for the money from the film Fargo that was buried in the snow as she mistook the film for a documentary instead. The first trailer for the film has arrived ahead of a limited March 13th premiere in New York City. Now, a new theatrical poster has arrived for it that you can see below.
“The idea is about obsession and imposing reason into something out of this need for belief was really interesting to us,” Zellner said last year about the real story which underwent many permutations online as it was retold. “We weren’t interesting in labeling Kumiko and diagnosing her. That was something we wanted to avoid because the movie is from her point of view, so to put a label on it, it distances the audience from the character and you can step back and be at a safer place, but we wanted it to be more immersive into her world. And also approach her with a sense of empathy instead of detachment.”
Plot concept: In this darkly comedic odyssey, Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi (Babel, Pacific Rim) stars as Kumiko, a frustrated Office Lady whose imagination transcends the confines of her mundane life. Kumiko becomes obsessed with a mysterious, battered VHS tape of a popular film she’s 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.
