As willful, selfish, and cruel as Ferrell's screen dunces, [Shinobu Terajima] blunders into one humiliating situation after another, hardly sympathetic but never less than human.

Oh Lucy! is quirky and offbeat and strange and sometimes quite dark - and yet oddly lovable.

But [Shinobu Terajima's] performance, especially when matched by[Kaho] Minami's hard-sighing world-weariness, is nothing less than transfixing.

Terajima does not shy away from some of Setsuko’s more unlikeable characteristics, while also allowing the character’s deep hurt to show itself in the most unexpected ways.