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Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
Director-writer: David Zellner
Writer: Nathan Zellner
Cast: Rinko Kikuchi, Nobuyuki Katsube, Shirley Venard, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, Kanako Higashi
Distributor: Amplify Releasing
Amplify’s Dylan Marchetti offered up that Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter looks and feels like a film with much bigger budget. It is a darkly comedic odyssey that stars Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi as a frustrated office worker 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 to recover it – and finds herself on a dangerous adventure unlike anything she’s seen in the movies.
“It’s one of the best films I’ve ever had to work on, and we wanted it in our initial slate,” said Marchetti about Amplify, which formed in 2014 with the merger between GoDigital and Variance Films. “People say the bottom has fallen out of the $5M movie, but this one has the quality and look of a $25M film, and it holds an emotional wallop.” Kumiko won a Special Jury prize at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and Kikuchi and director David Zellner received Spirit Award nominations this year. The Zellner brothers (Kid-Thing, Goliath) developed Kumiko after becoming aware of a story that circulated about a Japanese woman who left her Tokyo home for the frozen countryside of Minnesota in search of the fictional buried money from the movie Fargo.
“Rinko came for the Spirits and has been doing anything and everything for the movie,” said Marchetti. “Her work ethic is incredible. She’s been [coming to the U.S.] frequently even though she’s in the middle of doing a television show back in Japan.” Amplify will open Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter at IFC Center and BAM in New York as well as the Nuart in L.A. It is booked in about 100 locations around the country through May.
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
Director-writer: David Zellner
Writer: Nathan Zellner
Cast: Rinko Kikuchi, Nobuyuki Katsube, Shirley Venard, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, Kanako Higashi
Distributor: Amplify Releasing
Amplify’s Dylan Marchetti offered up that Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter looks and feels like a film with much bigger budget. It is a darkly comedic odyssey that stars Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi as a frustrated office worker 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 to recover it – and finds herself on a dangerous adventure unlike anything she’s seen in the movies.
“It’s one of the best films I’ve ever had to work on, and we wanted it in our initial slate,” said Marchetti about Amplify, which formed in 2014 with the merger between GoDigital and Variance Films. “People say the bottom has fallen out of the $5M movie, but this one has the quality and look of a $25M film, and it holds an emotional wallop.” Kumiko won a Special Jury prize at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and Kikuchi and director David Zellner received Spirit Award nominations this year. The Zellner brothers (Kid-Thing, Goliath) developed Kumiko after becoming aware of a story that circulated about a Japanese woman who left her Tokyo home for the frozen countryside of Minnesota in search of the fictional buried money from the movie Fargo.
“Rinko came for the Spirits and has been doing anything and everything for the movie,” said Marchetti. “Her work ethic is incredible. She’s been [coming to the U.S.] frequently even though she’s in the middle of doing a television show back in Japan.” Amplify will open Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter at IFC Center and BAM in New York as well as the Nuart in L.A. It is booked in about 100 locations around the country through May.