Oh Lucy!

Oh Lucy! (2018)

オー・ルーシー！

A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets out on a journey to find him.

Date of release
2018-01-31
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (104)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director
Atsuko Hirayanagi

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: California

Oh Lucy! 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.

Production

The film was adapted from Hirayanagi's 2014 short film of the same title. The short film's success helped take the script for the feature to Gloria Sanchez Productions.

Hirayanagi worked on the screenplay for the film at the Noe Valley Branch Library after dropping off her kids at school. Cathay Organisation CEO Meileen Choo funded the film. Hirayanagi has said that it cost less than $1 million to make.

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