The Guardian does a sad followup on a Japanese lady who apparently fell in love with a married American businessman. For some reason, she believed that the money hidden in the snow in the movie “Fargo” was still there and she travelled from Tokyo to Fargo to find the money. She died of exposure in North Dakota.
A very strange and sad story.
Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | Death in the snow
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This is such a tragic story… full of irony also as the epitath of her sorrowful death is a legend which may have offered her all that she longed for in life…
There’s a really sad song called ‘a strange kind of love’ that seems to sell the tale of such forlorn sorrow… though it would be nice to hear Takako’s own chosen track…
‘… she’s like a mermaid
locked in the dungeons of a sunken ship
she thinks she’s happy
though she’s been drawn in by shallow things
she open’s her eyes
and he sees all the treasure he finds
now in the back of my mind
I hear the devil sing
it’s a strange kind of love
still keeps you growing strong
she sees the future
locked in his promises and dreams
some people, could sell you anything
angel, don’t let him clip your wings
he may give you all he wants
but i’d give you anything
in this strange kind of love
that still keeps you growing strong
in every second car that passes
there’s a man like him
at ease in a world of television magazines
trampled and broken
what once was a timeless thing
in the heart of the night
i feel the winter sting
in this strange kind of love
that still keeps you hanging on…’
love and money
’88/89 ‘a strange kind of love’
Thank you for your comment and quote Lucretia. It is a really sad story. I can’t imagine what kind of love or emotion drove her to do what she did.
Hi there,
I’ve been burning the midnight oil reading about Takako Konishi. I arrived here via the good metafilter thread. I’ve posted a few thoughts at:
http://www.gamersnook.com/blog/archives/001392.html
There’s also an interesting a decent enough review of the film at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,3604,991893,00.html
I saw that someone mentioned the story of Merhan Karimi Nasseri in relation to this story. Nasseri was the Iranian refugee who became famous for living in the transit lounge at Charles de Gaulle Airport for more than 12 years, caught in a bureaucratic limbo. I guess the connection is dislocatioin, a lostness of such magnitude that it’s cannot easily be passed over. It’s worth noting that Paul Berzceller, director of DEATH IN THE SNOW was the writer on HERE TO WHERE, a drama/documentary film based on Nasseri’s story.
Anyway, glad to find others interested in all this.
Best regards,
Martin C