The film isn't polished, perhaps on purpose, but it's endearing, special even.

The entrancing fifth feature of the Zellner brothers, Kumiko the Treasure Hunter, is like found art in the beguiling, haunting manner it combines the seemingly ridiculous and desperate with an ineffable and quiet sadness.

If there's one thing Kumiko the Treasure Hunter proves beyond the shadow of a doubt, it's that Rinko Kikuchi is a movie star in the making.

Watching her dizzyingly reckless plot, photographed by Sean Porter's dynamic eye and rinsed with The Octopus Project's magical score, the Zellner Brothers cast an indelible spell; they help us find the beauty in banality, the peace in tragedy.