Anchor Bay Home Entertainment has officially announced and detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of David Zellner's film Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014), starring Rinko Kikuchi, Nobuyuki Katsube, and Shirley Venard. The release will be available for purchase on June 30.
Kumiko (Rinko Kikuchi, 2006 Oscar nominee, Babel) is a cubicle-bound office worker seeking to escape her dour working life. Relying on her imagination and unabashed courage, Kumiko thinks she has found a way out: she has become obsessed with a battered tape of a popular film – mistaking it for a documentary. In particular she is fixated on the scene where a suitcase of stolen cash has been buried in North Dakota's bleak landscape. Believing this treasure to be real and waiting to be discovered, Kumiko 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.
Inspired by an urban legend, KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER is a beguiling journey of determination and delusion. Sean Porter's (2015 Independent Spirit Award nominee, It Felt Like Love) cinematography has created scenes of stark, cold beauty as we follow Kumiko's dogged, misguided journey through the snowy countryside. A quiet narrative of the mind's perils and enticements, KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER gently reveals the twists and turns of the imagination that lie buried within us all.
Special Features:
Audio commentary with the Zellner Brothers and producer Chris Ohlson