Oh Lucy!

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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.