Oh Lucy!
Bored Tokyo lady Setsuko (Independent Spirit Award-nominee Shinobu Terajima) breaks free of her monotonous life when her niece, Mika (Shioli Kutsuna) convinces her to enroll in an unorthodox English class. There, she adopts a blonde-haired alter ego name "Lucy" and develops romantic feelings for her American instructor, John (Josh Hartnett).But after his sudden disappearance, Setsuko follows his trail halfway around the world to Southern California, where family ties and past lives are tested as she struggles to fulfill the promise of "Lucy."
"Recommended" - Video Librarian
Cast
- Shinobu Terajima
- Josh Hartnett
- Kaho Minami
- Shioli Kutsuna
- Megan Mullally
DVD Features
Deleted Scenes
New York Asian Film Festival interview with director Atsuko Hirayanagi.
Sound: 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 Surround
Discs: 1
Blu-ray Features
Deleted Scenes
New York Asian Film Festival interview with director Atsuko Hirayanagi.
Sound: 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 Surround
Discs: 1
- "... a chocolate trifle with an arsenic center."
- "... has an idiosyncratic charm that pays off in an unexpectedly touching ending."
- "... seems to play like a standard culture clash comedy but reveals itself to run significantly deeper...[It] has moments of genuine emotional poignancy."
- "CRITIC'S PICK. The writer-director Atsuko Hirayanagi isn’t selling a packaged idea about what it means to be human; she does something trickier and more honest here, merely by tracing the ordinary absurdities and agonies of one woman’s life."
Gallery
Awards & Recognition
Golden Camera
Cannes Film Festival
Critics' Week Grand Prize
Cannes Film Festival
Toronto Int'l. Film Festival
Golden Starfish Award
Hamptons Int'l. Film Festival
Chicago Int'l. Film Festival
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