World News 11-12-2001 who: 28-year-old Takako Konishi what: Dies hunting fictional movie treasure where: Bismarck, North Dakota when: Last week snippet: In the film Fargo "a villain stops his car in a snowy landscape with no features except a wire fence and fenceposts, where he buries a case containing $1million," reports the Telegraph. Miss Konishi travelled from Tokyo to North Dakota with a crude map purporting to show where the money was hidden, having apparently been confused by the film`s opening credits which hint, falsely, that it is a true story. "We tried to explain to her that it was a fictional movie and there really wasn`t any treasure," explains police Lt Nick Sevart, but it seems miss Konishi continued her search only to reach a tragic end... [... more]

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