The Harvard Film Archive and Reischauer Institute co-presented a retrospective of work by Tetsuya Mariko (b. 1981), filmmaker and RIJS Visiting Artist in Residence. Known for creating arresting and subversive films centered on characters locked into cycles of extreme antisocial behavior, Mariko first gained fame for his Super-8 films made while a student at Hosei University in Tokyo, and then at Image Forum. Each evening of the film series was followed by a conversation with Director TETSUYA MARIKO, together with Producer EISEI SHU.
21 February 2020
Destruction Babies (Disutorakushon beibizu)
Tetsuya Mariko and Eisei Shu in Person
Directed by Tetsuya Mariko.
With Yuya Yagira, Masaki Suda, Nana Komatsu.
Japan, 2016, DCP, color, 108 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
DCP source: Shochiku.
Details on HFA website
22 February 2020
Miyamoto (Miyamoto kara kimi e)
Tetsuya Mariko in Conversation with Alexander Zahlten
Directed by Tetsuya Mariko.
With Sosuke Ikematsu, Yu Aoi, Arata Iura.
Japan, 2019, DCP, color, 130 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
DCP source: Kadokawa Pictures.
Details on HFA website
24 February 2020
Tetsuya Mariko Short Films
Tetsuya Mariko in Conversation with Alexander Zahlten and Haden Guest
Mariko's 30 Pirates (Mariko sanjuuki), 2004
The Far East Apartment (Kyokutou no manshon), 2003
Ninifuni, 2011
Details on HFA website
