Oh Lucy!

This is a tragedy that you do not know is a tragedy until it's about 3/4 of the way through. Up until then, you think it's a comedy of errors. It's not. Heartbreaking and very well done.

Love can be strangely overwhelming at the most odd times of our lives, and this movie shows us exactly that. I really enjoyed it and appreciate the people who make movies like this.

Even though the movie was Japanese, it could easily have been an American Indie movie. Complex characters and issues that can't result be resolved. No simple answers here

Lauded Japanese-American female filmmaker Atsuko Hirayanagi's feature debut, OH LUCY!, derived from her own eponymous short, is a USA-Japan coproduction starring Shinobu Terajima as Setsuko, a Tokyo-dwelling, 40-something unwed, childless office lady (a kindred spirit of Kumiko in David Zellner's KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER, 2014), whose benumbed workaday existence is shunted into a new lane when she enrolls in an English class for beginners, welcomed by the open-handed warmth generated from the American teacher John (Hartnett, still handsome enough to conquer lonely-hearts), and christened with a new English name Lucy and sporting a blond wig, Setsuko instantly cottons to John, soon....

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Charming story about two sisters adventure going to America from Japan. The cultural differences and what drives them. The main character Setsuko is loveable as her alter ego Lucy who chases after life instead of being trodden on by it.

Not an action movie but a sweet tale definitely worth a look for it's raw view of life in all the shades of good and bad.