Cultures and desires clash in the melancholy Japanese comedy 'Oh Lucy!'
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Mar 05, 2018
2 minutes
The Lucy in "Oh Lucy!" is a droopy middle-aged Tokyo office worker named Setsuko Kawashima (Shinobu Terajima), who abruptly decides to take a break from her gloomy, deadening routine. At the insistence of her upbeat young niece, Mika (Shioli Kutsuna), she joins an English class, held in a shady-looking motel and taught by a gregarious tourist named John (Josh Hartnett).
Radiating warm exuberance from beneath glasses
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