Mariko Minoguchi

Mariko Minoguchi is a German-Japanese director. She was born in Munich, Germany in 1988. At the age of 18, she made her first short film Maybe and then gained experience on various film productions. In 2010, she founded the production company Trimafilm together with Trini Götze. Her feature film debut as a director, Relativity, won several prizes including awards by the German Film Critics Association for Best Debut Film and Best Screenplay. Collaborating with director Tim Fehlbaum, she wrote the script for his film Tides which premiered at the Berlinale in 2021 and reached number 1 in the US Netflix charts.

Mariko Minoguchi

Director