Oh Lucy!

Panorama

""A chocolate trifle with an arsenic core""

Variety
  • Archive - Festival 33
  • Director: Atsuko Hirayanagi
  • Japan, USA 2017
  • 90 minutes
  • Japanese, English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Setsuko is stagnating in middle age until an English class (and a blonde wig) transforms her into a new persona named Lucy. Setsuko quickly falls for her instructor, John, but when he suddenly disappears, she recruits her sister and tracks him from Tokyo to the outskirts of Southern California. In an unfamiliar world of tattoo parlors and seedy motels Setsuko struggles to preserve the dream of Lucy.

Oh Lucy! was presented in the Critics’ Week section of the 2017 Cannes Festival. "A chocolate trifle with an arsenic core" (Variety).

Feature Debut


  • Director Atsuko Hirayanagi
  • Production Han West, Yukie Kito, Jessica Elbaum, Atsuko Hirayanagi
  • Script Atsuko Hirayanagi, Boris Frumin
  • Cinematography Paula Huidobro
  • Editing Kate Hickey
  • Music Erik Friedlander
  • Festivals Canne
  • Actors Shinobu Terajima, Kaho Minami, Josh Hartnett
  • Source Elle Driver, Paris