Know For
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1968-10-08 (57 years old)
Place of Birth
Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Also known As
Akiko Ooku
億田明子
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 con...
2007
as Director
2007
as Writer
2007
as Producer
2016
as Director
2016
as Screenplay
2022
as Director
2015
as Director
2009
as Screenplay
1999
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1999
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2014
as Director
2013
as Director
2017
as Director
2017
as Screenplay
2012
as Director
2010
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2010
as Screenplay
2019
as Director
2020
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2020
as Director
2020
as Screenplay
2013
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2025
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2025
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2024
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2024
as Screenplay
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