2024 FESTIVALApr 10-20, 2024Lansing, MI
  • Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
  • Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
  • Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
  • Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
  • Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
  • Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
  • Shrimp

Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter

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.
With Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter, indie mavericks the Zellner Bros. spin a strangely touching underdog fable, populated by eccentrics and elevated to sonic heights by a Sundance award-winning score from electro-indie outfit The Octopus Project, that will leave audiences rooting for the impossible.

  • DIRECTOR
    David Zellner
  • YEAR
    2015
  • RUNTIME
    105 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English and Japanese
  • COUNTRY
    United States
Pre-Feature Short: A Michigan Frontrunner

Shrimp

Paul, 10 years old, is on holiday in the countryside. At the village dance, Paul would like to invite Wendy to dance, but he is too shy. His big brother Matthew, doesn’t help him to have confidence. How Paul will find the courage to invite Wendy to dance?

  • DIRECTOR
    Sophie Gilbert
  • YEAR
    2014
  • RUNTIME
    16 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Spanish
  • COUNTRY
    Spain
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