Tetsuya Mariko (born July 12, 1981) is a Japanese film director.
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.
[6] 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.
[7] 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.