Oku Hanako is a JPop singer famous in her native Japan for her piano ballads. She rose to fame after performing the end-title track for the Madhouse film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time in 2006. She was signed to a major record label in 2005. In 2004 Hanako began to perform on the streets of Tokyo, mainly in Shibuya ward, but once sold 402 CDs in four hours outside Kashiwa railway station. In spring 2007, Hanako performed to a sell-out crowd at Shibuya C.C. Lemon Hall, and with the release of her album “TIME NOTE”, she once again performed sell-out concerts there over three nights in July 2007.
