---
name: "Mariko Ishikawa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mariko-ishikawa"
fi1m_id: "mariko-ishikawa"
imdb_id: "nm2210991"
tmdb_id: 2171817
roles: ["Assistant director","Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-24T19:51:31.269283+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mariko Ishikawa

## Identity

Mariko Ishikawa

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mariko-ishikawa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mariko-ishikawa
- **IMDb ID:** nm2210991
- **TMDB ID:** 2171817
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2210991/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2171817

Assistant director and director.

## Details

- **Work:** Assistant director, Director
- **Also known as:**  石川真里子, 石川 真理子
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2210991/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2171817

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Haikyu!!*](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Mariko Ishikawa is a Japanese animator and director working in the animation department of numerous television series and films. She is credited on the anime series *Haikyu!!* (2014) as episode director, assistant director, animation director and key animator.

Her other credits include key animation on *Hunter x Hunter* (2011), *Kuroko's Basketball* (2012) and *A Letter to Momo* (2012); animation director roles on *Gintama* (2006), *Star Wars: Visions* (2021) and *Ranking of Kings* (2021); and assistant director on *HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle* (2024).

*Sources: imdb.com, animenewsnetwork.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Haikyu!!* (2014), Fi1m 80, Director, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Witch Hat Atelier* (2026), series, Key Animation
- *HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle* (2024), Assistant Director
- *The Concierge* (2023), Key Animation
- *The Deer King* (2021), Key Animation
- *Ranking of Kings* (2021), series, Animation Director
- *Star Wars: Visions* (2021), series, Animation Director
- *Gintama: The Very Final* (2021), Animation Director, Second Unit Director, Key Animation, Storyboard Artist
- *Run with the Wind* (2018), series, Key Animation, Animation Director
- *Kuroko's Basketball the Movie: Last Game* (2017), Key Animation
- *Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction* (2014), Key Animation
- *Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears* (2014), Key Animation
- *Haikyu!!* (2014), series, Assistant Director, Key Animation, Director, Animation Director, Storyboard Artist — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md)
- *Lupin the Third vs. Detective Conan: The Movie* (2013), Animation Director
- *Library War: The Wings of Revolution* (2012), Key Animation
- *A Letter to Momo* (2012), Key Animation
- *Kuroko's Basketball* (2012), series, Key Animation
- *Inazuma Eleven GO The Movie: The Ultimate Bonds Gryphon* (2011), Animation Director
- *Hunter x Hunter* (2011), series, Key Animation
- *BLOOD-C* (2011), series, Key Animation, Animation Director
- *Moshidora* (2011), series, Key Animation
- *Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost* (2010), Key Animation
- *Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike* (2009), Key Animation
- *Eden of the East* (2009), series, Key Animation
- *Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Kings* (2009), series, Key Animation
- *Basquash!* (2009), series, Key Animation
- *Kaiba* (2008), series, Key Animation
- *Real Drive* (2008), series, Key Animation
- *Ghost Hound* (2007), series, Key Animation
- *Mononoke* (2007), series, Key Animation
- *Bokurano* (2007), series, Key Animation
- *Universe* (2007), Animation
- *Reideen* (2007), series, Key Animation
- *Gintama* (2006), series, Key Animation, Animation Director

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