Akiko Ohku
- Directing
- 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.
Known for
Filmography
- I Won't Give Up! · Director, Screenplay
- Teruko & Lui · Director, Screenplay
- She Taught Me Serendipity · Director, Screenplay
- ゴースト・オブ・レディオ～バチボコ怖い心霊バスツアー～ · Director, Screenplay
- I Didn't Love You Because I Was a Family, But I Loved You as a Family · Director
- Wedding High · Director
- Heartbreak on a Plate · Director
- Shijuukara · Director, Creator
- One Hour Left Until the First Affair · Director, Writer
- Hold Me Back · Screenplay, Director
- I Had a Dream of That Girl · Director, Teleplay
- My Sweet Grappa Remedies · Director
- Throw It Away, Adachi · Screenplay, Director
- Marriage Hunting Beauty · Director
- Tremble All You Want · Director, Screenplay
- Nagisa no koibito tachi · Director, Screenplay
- Fantastic Girls · Director
- Houkago Lost · Director
- Monster · Director
- Tadaima, Jacqueline · Director
- Tokyo Nameless Girl's Story · Director
- Tales of Terror: 100 Stories · Director, Screenplay
- Cosplay Detective · Screenplay
- Tokyo Serendipity · Director, Producer
- Time Limit Investigator · Writer, Director
- Deka Matsuri
- Not To Talk About All Of Her Old Age · Self
- Barren Illusion · Akiko
- Igai to shinanai · Director, Writer