Japanese tourists in fictitious places THE MOVIE!

[Taro Toporific]

All of you have heard pathetic news of the gaijin-Japanese tourist news last November about Tokako Konishi, who died wandering in the frozen fields of FARGO, N.D. She was looking for the fictitious treasure" money featured in the movie "Fargo". Well, soon you can see the movie!
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Mysterious "FARGO" death subject of upcoming British documentary
A British filmmaker will be in Detroit Lakes [Fargo area] in February to produce a documentary about the mysterious death of a Japanese woman in November 2001.


The Fargo rest-of-the-story is about as odd the tourists seeking the Misty Mountains of Mordor...
Tourists Seek Middle-earth
Tourists have been trying to book passage to destinations in Middle-earth, apparently not realizing it's the fictional setting of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings --12:00pm ET, 21-January-03

[Steve Bildermann]

[Taro Toporific]

[Taro Toporific]

Well, soon you can see the movie!
Mysterious "FARGO" death subject of upcoming British documentary

Death in the snow
Friday June 6, 2003 The Guardian / by Paul Berczeller
A body is found in the frozen North Dakota woods. The cops say the dead Japanese woman was looking for the $1m she saw buried in the film Fargo. But the story didn't end there.

... My idea was to reconstruct the last week of Takako's life using still photographs, mixed with some digital video...My cameraman Mark and I were strange enough. But when Mimi walked into a busy truck-stop for breakfast, every single baseball-capped head in the place swivelled instantly in her direction. Perhaps that had something to do with the short black miniskirt and high black boots I had her wearing in the dead of winter. Mimi, my star, was a Japanese music promoter....

..It was only late in the investigation that they found out about the suicide note, Chief Keena... said that they had a lot of theories at first about what might have happened - homicide, a drug overdose, hypothermia - but nothing that solved it for sure. That's why he was happy when he heard about the suicide note Takako had mailed to her parents the same day that she encountered Jesse in Bismarck. They only received it three weeks after her death.

...It turned out that the story I had come to find in the upper midwest never existed. Yes, she had come to the upper midwest to kill herself. But not because of Fargo. It seemed the whole treasure story was nothing more than a Coen brothers-style series of tragic misunderstandings.

...When I got back to London I found out more about Doug, the American married businessman in Tokyo who Takako couldn't get over. I found out that she had been to Minnesota three times before - possibly with Doug. I found out that the last call she ever made was to him. She made it from her hotel room in Bismarck, the day before she left on the bus for Fargo. Takako probably died of a broken heart. That's the true story.

[GomiGirl]

If it is on TV/movies it must be true..

Steve's wife, Chisato, can testify to how people get wrapped up in make-believe and have confused her for the daugter of a video game hero... I can't find the thread about this but I thought it was really funny at the time.

[American Oyaji]

MTV featured that Fargo story on an urban myth show they were doing.