Actor

Akiko Ohku

Directing

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Movies: 19Series: 8Crew credits: 24

TMDB ID: 1138579

IMDb ID: nm2596256

Known for: Directing

Born: October 8, 1968

Age: 57

Place of birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1999 - 2025

Years active: 27

Average TMDB rating: 6.71

Wikidata: Q11432106

Also known as

Akiko Ooku • 億田明子 • Akiko Okuda • Akiko Oku • Akiko Ōku

Other jobs

Director (21)Screenplay (2)Writer (1)

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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").