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Nobuyuki Katsube

Kanako Higashi

Ichi Kyokaku

Ayaka Onishi

Mayuko Kawakita

Asami Tano

Ako Yoshida

Anna Wakamori

Risa Hotta

Hitomi Sawano

Maki Issô

Ariei Umefune

Takao Kinoshita

Shirley Venard

David Zellner

Nathan Zellner

Yumiko Hioki

Tetsuya Hayakawa

Mihoka Tomoda

Yusei Fujii

Natsuki Kanno

Brad Prather

Earl Milton

Madde Gibba

Ravi Jasthi

Lucy Luu

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Joel Thingvall

Sean Porter

Melba Jodorowsky

Chad Keith

Kikuo Ohta

Michelle Gilstead

Andrew Banks

Jim Burke

Cameron Lamb

Chris Ohlson

Raymond Mansfield

Alexander Payne

Shaun Redick

Jim Taylor

Deidre Backs

Christopher Shand

Georgina Pope

Lars Knudsen

Yvonne Lambert

Toto Miranda

Josh Lambert

Alex Bickel

Jenna Gabriel

Michael Howell

Britni West

Tony Crosbie

Kiersten Hargroder

Mary Flaa

Carrie Messina

Todd Cobery

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Masa Kokubo

Matt Center

Tomas Deckaj

Amber Goerish

Takashi Sekiya

Yûichi Tazawa

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Elizabeth Richardson

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René Jones-Jones

Cory Melious

Jim Morgan

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David Thompson

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Jesse Evans

Jeff Fischer

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Nick Hillyard

Gen Ito

Taro Kimura

Ivan Kovač

Yasushi Miyata

Matt Muegge

Michael Winn

Kati Batchelder

Lynn Blumenthal

Sadami Hwang

Christian Popham

Mitsutoshi Hamazaki

Anne Healy

Kai Miller

Dominique Preyer

Kazuko Shingyoku

Drama

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Ad Hominem Enterprises

Lila 9th Productions

United States of America

English

日本語

Reno

> An innocent girl's desperate adventure.

The rumours always adds lots interesting stuffs than the actual news. Sometime we feel that should have been real, because of the sunning depth that even a real story can't match. That's why the false information spreads like a virus on the social media. This movie character was inspired by a real young woman from Japan, but not the real event. An urban legend surround her visit to Minnesota, United States, back in the 2001.

I have seen many films of different versions of the same events or the persons, but I never heard of this one before. So after the watch I did a little research on the original and I thought this film looked much better than that, especially for the movie it supplied a fine story material. Still a very much predictable, but for an entertainment purpose, it did decently.

It was a beautiful adventure-drama. The main character is just like the one from 'Citizen Dog' or 'Amelie'. Kumiko is an innocent and a solitude woman in the twilight of her 20s. Her life is not so good, with having no friends or a boyfriend, pressure from her mother and at work, she decides to chase an unexpected dream after learning about the treasure from the tape she finds in a seaside. That leads her to travel halfway across the world to an unfamiliar territory and what follows is her desperate drive to achieve the undertaking.

> "I discover treasure. Right here. It's mine."

The end was heartbreaking, only if you understood it clearly. Though I'm not going to reveal anything about that part as it might spoil if you have not it yet. But there's no declaration in the opening or before the end credits about whether it was a real or what actually happened in the end. Lots of scenes make no sense, and gives the impression of the girl is so dumb. Also leaves many unanswered questions behind which is the negative side of the narration. That's what you get in an urban myth, a collective tale and each slice of it is someone's creation/prediction based on the original evidence that is not understood properly.

The story might be Americas, but due to the Japanese lead character, the entire film was in Japanese with English subtitle and very often some English line with the American characters. Besides, it looks more a Japanese film than the Hollywood's. The 'Pacific Rim' star Rinko Kikuchi was outstanding in the title role. The direction was good, the director also appeared in a small role as a cop. In fact, that was a big one for this movie where a small role can impact on the high level.

Even a ten year old can differentiate what is real and what's not from a movie he watches in this world. Whatever the girl from the movie believed in is simply a fictional account and an entertainment for us, so don't expect it to be an uplifting movie. As I said it was based on a speculation of some real incident, but a well made movie except not detailing everything they have shown. It got a mixed response with mostly positive feedbacks, but my take on it is definitely good. And finally, this movie is not for everyone, if you decide to watch, try not to analyse it deeply.

8/10

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