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Tetsuya Mariko

Director, Writer, Editor, Additional CreditsBorn July 12, 1981 (44 years)
Tetsuya Mariko (born July 12, 1981) is a Japanese film director. Mariko was born on July 12, 1981, in Tokyo , Japan. He began making short films while at Hosei University . He produced The Far East Apartment in 2003 and Mariko's 30 Pirates in 2004, which won the Grand Prix at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. He made Yellow Kid , his first feature-length film, while a graduate student at the Graduate School of Film and New Media at Tokyo University of the Arts . He won the New Director Grand Prix at Takasaki Film Festival and the New Directors Award at the Japanese Film Professionals Awards for this film.

In 2016, he won the Golden Leopard for Best New Director at the Locarno Film Festival and the Silver Balloon at the Three Continents Festival for his film Destruction Babies. In 2019, Mariko received Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director for his film Miyamoto.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • From Miyamoto to You

Known For

  • Destruction Babies
  • From Miyamoto to You
  • Ninifuni
  • From Miyamoto To You
  • Onaji hoshi no shita, sorezore no yoru
  • Dias Police: Police from Another Country

Tetsuya Mariko Filmography

2025
Dear Stranger · as Screenplay
2023
2019
2018
2016
2016
Dias Police: Police from Another Country (TV Series) · as Screenplay
2013
Asunaro sanjo! · as Screenplay
2009
Yellow Kid · as Screenplay

2003
Ninifuni · as Written By

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