Movies Making Myths: Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Humans have always revelled in creating and propagating myths to make sense of the world in which we live, but in our era filled with representations and imagined realities, myths have become ever more intricate. Sarah Ward plunges into the facts and the fictions surrounding David Zellner's fifth feature, which builds on the Coen brothers' Fargo and forms part of a pop-cultural legend of its own.

Additional keywords: Rinko Kikuchi, Takako Konishi.