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Akiko Ōku
Japanese film director
Akiko Ōku (大九 明子, Ōku Akiko, born October 8, 1968),[1] also romanised as Akiko Ohku, is a Japanese film director.
Ōku was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa.[2] 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 a stand-up comedian, and afterwards, at age 27, she entered Eigabi School, a film school where director Kiyoshi Kurosawa taught, among others.