In this darkly comedic odyssey, Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi (BABEL, PACIFIC RIM) stars as Kumiko, a frustrated Office Lady 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 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.

KUMIKO THE TREASURE HUNTER (G)
Monday, April 20 at 9:15
Sunday, April 26 at 8:45
Monday, April 27 at 7:00 pm
Tuesday, April 28 at 7:00 pm
Tickets $8 www.riotheatretickets.ca / $10 door
All ages welcome in the balcony!
*Groupons and passes OK.

With KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER, indie mavericks the Zellner Bros. spin a strangely touching underdog fable, populated by eccentrics and elevated to sonic heights by a Sundance award-winning score from electro-indie outfit The Octopus Project, that will leave audiences rooting for the impossible.

“Fiercely original…. A wonderfully strange and beguiling adult fairytale.” – Scott Foundas, VARIETY

KUMIKO THE TREASURE HUNTER (David Zellner, 2014) | A jaded Japanese woman discovers a hidden copy of Fargo (1996) on VHS, believing it to be a treasure map indicating the location of a large case of money. Starring Rinko Kikuchi, Nobuyuki Katsube, Shirley Venard.