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Born July 12, 1981 · Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan
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.

Dear Stranger
2025
Before Anyone Else
2023

Redder Than Yesterday, Bluer Than Tomorrow: Cinema Fighters Project
2021
MAYDAY
2021

State of Emergency
2020

From Miyamoto to You
2019

Destruction Babies
2016

Asunaro Rises!
2013
宿木
2013

同じ星の下、それぞれの夜
2013

FUN FAIR
2012

NINIFUNI
2011

Yellow Kid
2010

A Lush Life
2009

アブコヤワ
2007
ニコラの橋
2007

Mariko's 30 Pirates
2005
Life Without a Car
2004

The Far East Apartment
2004

ほぞ
2001