Akiko Ohku

Known for DirectingBorn 1968-10-08 (age 57)Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Teruko & Lui

Shijuukara

Tadaima, Jacqueline

I Didn't Love You Because I Was a Family, But I Loved You as a Family

My Sweet Grappa Remedies

She Taught Me Serendipity

Tremble All You Want

Tokyo Nameless Girl's Story

Time Limit Investigator

Throw It Away, Adachi

I Had a Dream of That Girl

Hold Me Back

Wedding High

Tokyo Serendipity

Fantastic Girls

Barren Illusion

Monster

Tales of Terror: 100 Stories

Marriage Hunting Beauty

Houkago Lost

ゴースト・オブ・レディオ～バチボコ怖い心霊バスツアー～

Heartbreak on a Plate

One Hour Left Until the First Affair

Nagisa no koibito tachi

Cosplay Detective

Deka Matsuri

Not To Talk About All Of Her Old Age

Igai to shinanai

I Won't Give Up!