MoviesPrix

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Genres

Drama

OverView

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.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$739623

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

104 mins

Rating

6.6/10

Release Date

13 November 2014

Country

United States of America

Cast

Rinko Kikuchi

Rinko Kikuchi

Kumiko

Nobuyuki Katsube

Nobuyuki Katsube

Sakagami

Kanako Higashi

Kanako Higashi

Michi

Ichi Kyokaku

Ichi Kyokaku

Library Security Guard

Ayaka Onishi

Ayaka Onishi

Chieko

Mayuko Kawakita

Mayuko Kawakita

Ms. Kanazaki

Asami Tano

Asami Tano

Office lady

Ako Yoshida

Ako Yoshida

Office lady

Anna Wakamori

Anna Wakamori

Office lady

Risa Hotta

Risa Hotta

Office lady

Hitomi Sawano

Hitomi Sawano

Office lady

Maki Issô

Maki Issô

Office lady

Ariei Umefune

Ariei Umefune

Office lady

Takao Kinoshita

Takao Kinoshita

Dry Cleaning Clerk

Shirley Venard

Shirley Venard

Older Woman

David Zellner

David Zellner

Policeman

Nathan Zellner

Nathan Zellner

Robert

Yumiko Hioki

Yumiko Hioki

Kumiko's Mother

Tetsuya Hayakawa

Tetsuya Hayakawa

Dancing couple

Mihoka Tomoda

Mihoka Tomoda

Dancing couple

Yusei Fujii

Yusei Fujii

Mayo (Michi's Child)

Natsuki Kanno

Natsuki Kanno

Department store clerk

Brad Prather

Brad Prather

Brad

Earl Milton

Earl Milton

Bus driver

Madde Gibba

Madde Gibba

Gift shop clerk

Ravi Jasthi

Ravi Jasthi

Motel clerk

Lucy Luu

Lucy Luu

Chinese restaurant owner

Kirsten Gregerson

Kirsten Gregerson

Airport Passenger (uncredited)

Joel Thingvall

Joel Thingvall

Airline Passenger (uncredited)

Similar Movies

6.3

The Gambling Samurai

March 1960 •Japanese

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's family. A final tragedy leads Kunisada to join with a band of rogues living in the forest in robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, always with an eye toward avenging himself on Magistrate Matsui.

7.5

Lady Snowblood

December 1973 •Japanese

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.

8.0

Nobody Knows

August 2004 •Japanese

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

7.3

Battle Royale

December 2000 •Japanese

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

5.3

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)

December 1956 •Japanese

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

6.0

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)

April 1957 •Japanese

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

6.0

The Spell of the Hidden Gold

October 1958 •Japanese

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

7.4

Lost in Translation

September 2003 •English

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

7.2

Zatoichi

September 2003 •Japanese

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

0.0

Montbars

May 2016 •French

In the Caribbean in Saint-Barthélemy, Léo, who is a down-on-his-luck treasure hunter, finds himself chasing the legend of a famous pirate of the island.

7.3

Kolya

May 1996 •Czech

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.

7.4

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

November 1999 •Japanese

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbeknownst to him, he becomes a key player in a dispute between rival police divisions, as he finds himself increasingly involved with the sister of the girl he saw die.

7.8

The Bridge on the River Kwai

October 1957 •English

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

7.6

Dolls

October 2002 •Japanese

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.

5.1

Transit

June 2006 •Russian

A group of American pilots from Alaska ferry Airacobra fighter planes across the ocean on Lend-lease. The orderly course of life is disrupted when it becomes clear that the American pilots are attractive and charming young women. The feelings of the Russian young men collide into barriers of culture and language resulting in a host of awkward, funny, and sometimes tragic situations.It is the story of Russians, Americans, and natives of the Far North. It is the story of man and woman in war. Love and death are squeezed between the hills as human fates are destroyed and born.

7.7

Memoirs of a Geisha

December 2005 •English

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

6.4

To End All Wars

September 2001 •English

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.

7.2

Tora! Tora! Tora!

January 1970 •English

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

5.7

Return of the One-Armed Swordsman

January 1960 •Japanese

The legendary one-eyed one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen is back to aid a Magistrate in his efforts to steal bribe money on its way to Edo for the benefit to poor farmers.

7.1

The Overnighters

October 2014 •English

Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.