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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Frustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Fixating on a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota, she travels to America to find it.
David Zellner
Casts & Crew
Rinko Kikuchi
Nobuyuki Katsube
Kanako Higashi
Ichi Kyokaku
Ayaka Ohnishi
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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