Akiko Ohku

Director · Born October 8, 1968 · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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.

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2020s

2027
I Won't Give Up!
Director
2025
Teruko & Lui
Director
She Taught Me Serendipity
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66
2024
ゴースト・オブ・レディオ～バチボコ怖い心霊バスツアー～
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2023
I Didn't Love You Because I Was a Family, But I Loved You as a Family
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2022
Wedding High
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63
Heartbreak on a Plate
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Shijuukara
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2021
One Hour Left Until the First Affair
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2020
Hold Me Back
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75
I Had a Dream of That Girl
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My Sweet Grappa Remedies
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Throw It Away, Adachi
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