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Akiko Ohku (b. 1968)

Alias:
Akiko Ooku
億田明子

Birthplace:
Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Born:
October 8, 1968

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Director:
1999  Igai to shinanai
2007  Tokyo Serendipity
2010  Tales of Terror: 100 Stories
2012  Tokyo Nameless Girl's Story
2013  Monster
2013  Tadaima, Jacqueline
2014  Houkago Lost
2015  Fantastic Girls
2016  Nagisa no koibito tachi
2017  Tremble All You Want
2019  Marriage Hunting Beauty
2020  Hold Me Back
2020  My Sweet Grappa Remedies
2022  Wedding High
2024  She Taught Me Serendipity

Producer:
1999  Igai to shinanai
2007  Tokyo Serendipity
2010  Tales of Terror: 100 Stories
2012  Tokyo Nameless Girl's Story
2013  Monster
2013  Tadaima, Jacqueline
2014  Houkago Lost
2015  Fantastic Girls
2016  Nagisa no koibito tachi
2017  Tremble All You Want
2019  Marriage Hunting Beauty
2020  Hold Me Back
2020  My Sweet Grappa Remedies
2022  Wedding High
2024  She Taught Me Serendipity

Screenplay:
1999  Igai to shinanai
2007  Tokyo Serendipity
2009  Cosplay Detective
2010  Tales of Terror: 100 Stories
2012  Tokyo Nameless Girl's Story
2013  Monster
2013  Tadaima, Jacqueline
2014  Houkago Lost
2015  Fantastic Girls
2016  Nagisa no koibito tachi
2017  Tremble All You Want
2019  Marriage Hunting Beauty
2020  Hold Me Back
2020  My Sweet Grappa Remedies
2022  Wedding High
2024  She Taught Me Serendipity

Writer:
1999  Igai to shinanai
2007  Tokyo Serendipity
2009  Cosplay Detective
2010  Tales of Terror: 100 Stories
2012  Tokyo Nameless Girl's Story
2013  Monster
2013  Tadaima, Jacqueline
2014  Houkago Lost
2015  Fantastic Girls
2016  Nagisa no koibito tachi
2017  Tremble All You Want
2019  Marriage Hunting Beauty
2020  Hold Me Back
2020  My Sweet Grappa Remedies
2022  Wedding High
2024  She Taught Me Serendipity

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TV Production

Creator:
2022  Shijuukara

Director:
2006  Time Limit Investigator
2020  I Had a Dream of That Girl
2020  Throw It Away, Adachi
2021  One Hour Left Until the First Affair
2022  Heartbreak on a Plate
2022  Shijuukara
2023  I Didn't Love You Because I Was a Family, But I Loved You as a Family

Screenplay:
2006  Time Limit Investigator
2020  I Had a Dream of That Girl
2020  Throw It Away, Adachi
2021  One Hour Left Until the First Affair
2022  Heartbreak on a Plate
2022  Shijuukara
2023  I Didn't Love You Because I Was a Family, But I Loved You as a Family

Teleplay:
2006  Time Limit Investigator
2020  I Had a Dream of That Girl
2020  Throw It Away, Adachi
2021  One Hour Left Until the First Affair
2022  Heartbreak on a Plate
2022  Shijuukara
2023  I Didn't Love You Because I Was a Family, But I Loved You as a Family

Writer:
2006  Time Limit Investigator
2020  I Had a Dream of That Girl
2020  Throw It Away, Adachi
2021  One Hour Left Until the First Affair
2022  Heartbreak on a Plate
2022  Shijuukara
2023  I Didn't Love You Because I Was a Family, But I Loved You as a Family

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