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Oh Lucy! [Sub: Eng]
In a dramatic atmosphere, this movie follows a single miserable Japanese woman, Setsuko, who is about 55 years old and suffers from the bad luck she has, but when she takes the English lessons, where she acquires a new identity and personality named, Lucy, her life changes and falls in love with her teacher, John.
29 March 1961, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
9 December 1972, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 January 1956, Isahaya, Japan
16 July 1990, Corsicana, Texas, USA
27 November 1974, USA
14 August 1984, Hampton, Virginia, USA
28 December 1972, Tokyo, Japan
22 December 1992, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
12 November 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 August 1993, Zama, Japan
20 January 1964, Hyogo, Japan
April 19, 2018
But [Shinobu Terajima's] performance, especially when matched by[Kaho] Minami's hard-sighing world-weariness, is nothing less than transfixing.
March 27, 2018
Many of the performances are perfunctory and/or badly thought out (not sure what to make of Hartnett's John), but there's no denying that leading lady Terajima is a compelling screen presence. She makes it worth the visit.
March 28, 2018
...sensitive, penetrating and frequently unsettling study of one woman's battle with regret...
May 02, 2018
The gags often play on stereotypes, while the drama sometimes verges on the overwrought. Yet on the whole the film is meticulously crafted; fine detailing is often absent in the usual Japanese "international" movie, whose brush of choice is broad.
April 05, 2018
Led by a Terajima -- who wisely keeps Setsuko's motivations vague -- an able cast creates a genre-defying movie that takes us deep into the kind of life that normally would go unseen.
March 20, 2018
An idiosyncratic character study suggesting that the road to self-knowledge is beset with obstacles and uncertainties.
April 27, 2018
Viewers won't be able to divine just where Oh Lucy! will go next.
May 31, 2018
Oh Lucy! is quirky and offbeat and strange and sometimes quite dark - and yet oddly lovable.
March 15, 2018
It's weird, sometimes challenging and surprisingly engaging, thanks in large part to Terajima, who is outstanding.
March 08, 2018
Hirayanagi has a way of gradually getting inside her characters that slowly renders them comprehensively known, intimately exposed and surprisingly surprising.
March 23, 2018
Nothing here is wrapped up with a red ribbon the way it would be in an American film, studio made or otherwise. Oh Lucy! has the guts to leave things messy and unkempt, just like life.
March 23, 2018
At its best, it's a comedy of miscommunication, one that hits an occasional rough spot when the location shifts from Tokyo to SoCal and a chase ensues between Lucy and her mother and sister. 2017.

