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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
2014 · Film · 104 min
Directed by David Zellner
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.
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> It would be roughly analogous to an anonymous millionaire showing a pot of gold on TV (with respectable jewelers certifying that it really is gold) and then saying it will be buried somewhere in Arizona desert, here's the puzzle with the location.
Reminds me of the movie "Kumiko the Treasure Hunter" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3263614/
Assuming you mean the Japanese woman, her death was ruled a suicide:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Takako_Konishi
The urban legend that she died looking for the treasure however, was turned into a movie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumiko,_the_Treasure_Hunter