KUMIKO – 7PM

Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter

Screening:

Saturday, October 17, 7:00 pm,

Uptown Theatre, Screen 4

Co-written and Directed by David Zellner

USA / 2014 / Drama / Rated G / English and Japanese with English subtitles / 105 min.

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 Tokyo and her beloved rabbit Bunzo behind to recover it… and finds herself on a dangerous adventure unlike anything she’s seen in the movies.