As Director, As Writer
She Taught Me Serendipity
2025
6.3
Akiko Ohku
Acting
Born
October 8, 1968
Place of Birth
Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, 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.
The Filmography
As Director
Wedding High
2022
6.1
As Director, As Writer
Hold Me Back
2020
6.2
As Director
My Sweet Grappa Remedies
2020
7.4
As Director
Marriage Hunting Beauty
2019
1.0
As Director, As Writer
Tremble All You Want
2017
7.1
As Director
Fantastic Girls
2015
5.8
As Director
Monster
2013
5.3
As Director
Tokyo Nameless Girl's Story
2012
7.0
As Director, As Writer
Tales of Terror: 100 Stories
2010
3.0
As Director, As Writer
Tokyo Serendipity
2007
5.9
As Actor
Barren Illusion
1999
5.9