Fargo isn't a true story. It's an easy mistake to make, particularly as the opening line literally reads, "This is a true story". So when Takako Konishi lost her job in Tokyo, booked a holiday to Minnesota (where she had previously travelled with an ex-lover), downed two bottles of champagne and decided to kill herself in a snowdrift, the press thought that her death was just too Coen-esque not to be related to the film, even though she left a suicide note in her hotel. Lies were told, myths were believed and families were devastated—but at least we got a really good indie film out of it (Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter).
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