Akiko Ohku

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 standup 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 dont die unexpectedly Description above from the Wikipedia article Akiko Ōku licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia