Noboru Iguchi

Directing·Jun 28, 1969·Tokyo, Japan

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Noboru Iguchi is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor. He has worked as a director in adult video (AV) as well as in the horror and gore genres. Iguchi was born on June 28, 1969. In an interview he said he was influenced in his work by the ghost houses and freak shows he went to as a child in Japanese play lands, and that his aim in his films is to both entertain and surprise. In his extensive career as an AV director, Iguchi has worked for a number of studios including CineMagic, Big Morkal, Try-Heart, h.m.p and Soft On Demand (SOD). Nana Natsume and Risa Coda have been among the AV Idols featured in his videos. His videos have explored several of the typical Japanese AV genres, from incest for SOD to "nakadashi", bondage, group sex and some enema fetish videos for CineMagic. His video Final Pussy starring Nana Natsume won the Best Rental Video Award at the 2005 SOD Awards. In this January 2005 video, Natsume's character (as the result of a military experiment gone wrong) has guns burst from her breasts when sexually aroused. The special makeup effects were by Yoshihiro Nishimura. One of Iguchi's early movies was Kurushime-san (クルシメさん) which was first released in 1997. Iguchi was screenwriter, editor, cinematographer and director of the black comedy-horror film which won the Encouragement Prize at the 1998 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival and starred Aki Arai, Miako Tadano and Tomoko Matsunashi. In 2003, Iguchi wrote and directed the horror comedy A Larva to Love (恋する幼虫, Koi-suru Yōchū) (with effects by Yoshihiro Nishimura) about a strange relationship involving a boy, a girl, and a parasite. Iguchi also wrote and directed the February 2006 film Sukeban Boy or Oira Sukeban (おいら女蛮スケバン, Oira sukeban) with AV star Asami. At an interview at the New York Asian Film Festival, Iguchi told of an incident where one of the actresses in the movie, completely unaware of her role, balked at doing action scenes totally naked. According to Iguchi "We had to calm her down, capture her, and convince her to do the job ... We made it so she could not leave the set ... [in] America we would have been sued." Later in 2006, Iguchi directed Cat-Eyed Boy (猫目小僧, Nekome kozō) based on the manga by Kazuo Umezu. The movie, with gravure idol Miku Ishida, Asami Kumakiri, Hiromasa Taguchi, Naoto Takenaka and Kanji Tsuda, was released theatrically in Japan in June 2006, and on DVD in October of the same year. Iguchi was also both the screenwriter and director for the 2008 action and gore cult film The Machine Girl (片腕マシンガール, Kataude mashin gāru) where he once again teamed up with Yoshihiro Nishimura who did the special effects and makeup effects. Iguchi said he wanted to make an action movie with a woman fighting and it started with just an idea of a girl losing her arm and going out for revenge and was originally called "One Armed Big Busty Girl" - the machine gun came later. Iguchi was a special guest at the 2009 and 2010 New York Asian Film Festival. In 2010, Iguchi directed his largest-budgeted feature, the action film Karate-Robo Zaborgar, based on the popular 1970s television series Denjin Zaborger. He followed it with the scatological horror/comedy Zombie Ass in 2011.

Film	Credit
The Cannibal Girl2025 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Tales of Bliss & Heresy2023 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
IDOL NEVER DiES2022 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Island of Giant Insects - Live-Action PV2019 · Director	Director
The Flowers of Evil2019 · Director	Director
Ghost Squad2018 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Lock-On Love2018 · Director	Director
Shoujo Picaresque2018 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Fun House2018 · Director	Director
Cinema Capriccio2017 · Self	Self
The Blue Hearts2017 · Director	Director
Slavemen2017 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Devotion to Cinema2016 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Hentaidan2015 · Director	Director
Damager2015 · Director, Producer, Screenplay, Director of Photography	Director, Producer, Screenplay, Director of Photography
Raining Blood2014 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Nuigulumar Z2014 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The ABCs of Death2013 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Igyou Akai Hito-hen2012 · Director	Director
Bad Butt2012 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Dead Sushi2012 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
New Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: Ghost Story2012 · Director	Director
Gekijō-ban: Harapeko Yamagami-kun2012 · Director	Director
Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead2012 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Karate-Robo Zaborgar2011 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Tomie: Unlimited2011 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
GeishaCop: Fearsome Geisha Corps - Go to Hell2010 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Helldriver2010 · Blue alien	Blue alien
YOSHIE ZERO2010 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Mutant Girls Squad2010 · Ancient Nobleman, Writer, Director	Ancient Nobleman, Writer, Director
The Ancient Dogoo Girl: Special Movie Edition2010 · Director	Director
RoboGeisha2009 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Yamagata Scream2009 · Bishu Urikawara	Bishu Urikawara
Hypertrophy Genitals Girl2009 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Shyness Machine Girl2009 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Tales of Terror: Gi2008 · Director	Director
The Machine Girl2008 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 3, Part 12007 · Director	Director
Cat-Eyed Boy2006 · Director	Director
Tales of Terror: Final Night 22006 · Director	Director
Tales of Terror: Final Night 12006 · Director	Director
Manji2006 · Director	Director
Sukeban Boy2006 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Snake Girl2005 · Director	Director
Saishū seiki! Natsume nana ~ kyūkyoku no erosu2005 · Director	Director
Dogs & Cats2004 · Actor	Actor
Love Song for Rapper2004 · Actor	Actor
Otakus in Love2004 · Actor	Actor