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Akiko Ohku
Director, Writer, Actor, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn October 8, 1968 (57 years)
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").
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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.
Akiko Ohku Filmography
| 2025 | 照子と瑠衣 (TV Series) |
| 2024 | |
| 2023 | |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | Heartbreak on a Plate (TV Series) |
| 2022 | Beginning at 40 (TV Series) |
| 2021 | One Hour Left Until the First Affair (TV Series) |
| 2020 | |
| 2020 | I Had a Dream of That Girl (TV Series) |
| 2020 | Suteteyo, Adachi-san (TV Series) |
| 2019 | |
| 2018 | |
| 2017 | |
| 2015 | |
| 2014 | Â, rabuhoteru gôka-ban (TV Series) |
| 2014 | |
| 2013 | |
| 2010 | |
| 2007 | |
| 2006 | Time Limit Investigator (TV Series) |
| 2025 | 照子と瑠衣 (TV Series) · as Screenplay |
| 2024 | She Taught Me Serendipity · as Screenplay |
| 2021 | One Hour Left Until the First Affair (TV Series) |
| 2020 | Hold Me Back · as Screenplay |
| 2020 | Suteteyo, Adachi-san (TV Series) · as Screenplay |
| 2017 | Tremble All You Want · as Screenplay |
| 2014 | Â, rabuhoteru gôka-ban (TV Series) |
| 2010 | Tales of Terror: 100 Stories · as Screenplay |
| 2007 | |
| 2006 | Time Limit Investigator (TV Series) |
| 1999 | Barren Illusion · as Akiko |
| 2022 | Beginning at 40 (TV Series) · as Teleplay |
| 2020 | I Had a Dream of That Girl (TV Series) · as Teleplay |