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‘Oh Lucy!’ portrays L.A. from a down-and-outer’s view

“Oh Lucy!” is a small-scale curiosity that lingers in the mind. Expanded from a prize-winning 2014 short film by its writer-director, Atsuko Hirayanagi, it’s about Setsuko Kawashima (Shinobu Terajima), an unmarried middle-aged data processor who is decades older than most of her co-workers in the drab office where she joylessly toils.

Early on in the movie, a sweet-souled older woman has a retirement party

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