Akiko Ohku

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1968-10-08 (56 years old)

Place of Birth Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As Akiko Ooku, 億田明子

Akiko Ohku

Biography

Akiko Ōku (大九 明子, Ōku Akiko, born October 8, 1968), also romanised as Akiko Ohku, is a Japanese film director. Ōku was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa. In high school, she joined a rakugo group. While studying Politics and Economics at Meiji University, she was part of a student theatre troupe. After graduating, Ōku briefly had an office job at a subsidiary of the Ministry of Labour. She then entered a comedy acting school for one year and performed as stand-up comedian, and afterwards, at age 27, she entered Eigabi School, a film school where director Kiyoshi Kurosawa taught, among others. While still at film school, Ōku won a screenwriting contest with a script that would become her theatrical feature film debut as director, 意外と死なない (Igaito shinanai, literally "don't die unexpectedly"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Akiko Ōku, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Director

2022
Wedding High

as Director

2022
Shijuukara

as Director

2022
2020
2020
Hold Me Back

as Director

2020
2019
2017
2016
2015
Fantastic Girls

as Director

2014
Houkago Lost

as Director

2013
Monster

as Director

2013
2007
Tokyo Serendipity

as Director

2006
1999
Igai to shinanai

as Director

Writer

2024
2020
Hold Me Back

as Screenplay

2020
Throw It Away, Adachi

as Screenplay

2017
Tremble All You Want

as Screenplay

2016
2009
Cosplay Detective

as Screenplay

2007
1999

Producer

2007
Tokyo Serendipity

as Producer

Creator

2022
Shijuukara

as Creator