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Sextus
05-05-2015, 01:21 PM
I'm looking forward to seeing this film! In fact, I'm feeling sorry for this poor lost in translation sweetheart already!

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"Kumiko, indelibly portrayed by Academy Award-nominee Rinko Kikuchi (Babel), lives a shy and solitary life in a cramped Tokyo apartment shared only by her beloved pet rabbit Bunzo. Increasingly isolated, constantly browbeaten by her mother who complains that she isn’t married yet, and stuck in a dead-end job with a demeaning boss, Kumiko devotes all her spare time to compulsive viewings of Joel and Ethan Coen’s classic Fargo. It’s not so much the film that fascinates her, more the suitcase of cash Steve Buscemi’s hapless kidnapper buries beneath the snow in the titular city’s outskirts.


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Ooh, look - her little nose and cheeks are genuinely red from the cold. :prettiness: :D :D

"Rewinding and fast-forwarding her weathered VHS tape to the point of its destruction, Kumiko meticulously hand-sews a map that pinpoints where she believes the money remains buried, and commences a life-changing odyssey towards the wintry American Midwest to claim it."

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"Gloriously realised and utterly one-of-a-kind, KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER is a beguiling tale of obsession and delusion that lays bare the universal human need for adventure, and soars to a profoundly moving climax that reveals both the danger and magic of the intoxicating effects of cinema."

(Typically, it isn't on in the suburban cinemas though - it's at the Dendy.)

rooter
05-05-2015, 02:43 PM
Could be ok.
The Japanese ingenue lost in vast American landscapes is potentially interesting.
Reminds me of the first part in Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train where a young Japanese rockabilly couple are on a pilgrimage to Memphis Tennessee.
That might have been when it first hit me just how adorably cute and sexy Japanese girls can be.
The Italian girl in the second part of the movie is really sweet too.

Sextus
06-05-2015, 12:18 AM
I'm feeling sorry for this poor lost in translation sweetheart already!

And with good reason it turns out. I grabbed a friend and watched it this evening. It is a haunting film! You wish you could save her from herself. There was a good insight into the Japanese "office lady" culture too.