Shutaro Oku (Japanese: 奥 秀太郎, Hepburn: Oku Shūtarō, born in 1975) is a Japanese film and stage director.
From 2000 to 2009, Oku directed many theatrical films, notably The Labor Cop, Japanese Naked Tribe, Aka-sen, Cain's Descendant, and USB.
He also participated stage productions as visual planner, like Elisabeth and MOZART!
for TOHO Musical, The Bee and Egg for NODA MAP productions, 1789, Casablanca for the Takarazuka Revue, and more.
[4][5] In November 2019, Oku directed Battles Without Honor and Humanity: On'na-tachi no Shitō-hen, a stage adaptation of the Battles Without Honor and Humanity yakuza film series starring members of the female pop idol group AKB48.