Oh Lucy! (2017)

Original title

オー・ルーシー！

Directed by

Atsuko Hirayanagi

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United States, Japan

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 102 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A lonely woman in Tokyo takes English lessons and develops a crush on her teacher. When he disappears, she follows him to Los Angeles with her sister and niece.

melancholicquirkyquietly funnylonelyoffbeatslow-burnbright but sadwistful

What happens

Oh Lucy! (オー・ルーシー!, Ō Rūshī!) is a 2017 comedy-drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Atsuko Hirayanagi, based on her 2014 short film. The film stars Shinobu Terajima, Kaho Minami, Shioli Kutsuna, Kōji Yakusho, and Josh Hartnett. It follows a lonely, middle-aged office drudge (Terajima) living in Tokyo who develops a crush on her English teacher (Hartnett) and decides to follow him to Los Angeles when he disappears. However, she ends up in the United States with her sister (Minami) and her niece (Kutsuna), as well as her English teacher. The film premiered in the Critics' Week section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. It was released theatrically in the United States on March 2, 2018, by Film Movement and in Japan on April 28, 2018, by Phantom Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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