This Is a True Story

This Is a True Story

6.7/10
0h25min
2003Documentary

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A Japanese woman, Takako Konishi, faces media-driven misunderstandings in Fargo, North Dakota, after being found dead in 2001.

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In December 2001 the world's media focused on the small town of Fargo, North Dakota, where the body of Takako Konishi was found in the woods by a hunter. The media reported that she had left Japan with the misunderstanding that the Coen brother's "Fargo" really was a true story and that there was a stash of money hidden somewhere in the snow on a road by a tree. This documentary traces the background to the story and finds that the media, quick to jump on a "funny" story of foolishness, had gotten the story totally wrong.