Movies

"Oh Lucy!" is a 2017 comedy-drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Atsuko Hirayanagi, based on her 2014 short film of the same name. The story centers on a lonely, chain-smoking office worker in Tokyo who develops a crush on her English teacher. When he suddenly disappears, she decides to follow him to Los Angeles. Instead, she finds herself in the United States accompanied by her sister, niece, and her English teacher. The film premiered in the Critics' Week section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States on March 2, 2018.