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Noboru Iguchi

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... more

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.

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The Machine Girl
(2008)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Noboru Iguchi
Cast:
Minase Yashiro, Asami, Yûya Ishikawa, Kentarô Shimazu, Honoka
5.9
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RoboGeisha
(2009)
Action, Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Noboru Iguchi
Cast:
Aya Kiguchi, Hitomi Hasebe, Takumi Saito, Tarô Shigaki, Etsuko Ikuta
5.3
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Mutant Girls Squad
(2010)
Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Rin a young high school student is your everyday awkward girl who gets bullied by her fellow students. On her 16th birthday, Rin gets an unexpected surprise: she finds out that she is, on her father's side, a half-mutant.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Tak Sakaguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Noboru Iguchi
Cast:
Yumi Sugimoto, Cay Izumi, Maki Mizui, Suzuka Morita, Asami
5.8
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Dead Sushi
(2012)
Action, Comedy, Horror
Keiko, daughter of a famous sushi chef, leaves home to escape his overbearing training in both sushi-making and martial arts. Finding work at a rural inn, she is bullied by the staff and ridiculed by the guests, including the president of Komatsu Pharmaceuticals, who has come to the inn for a vacation with his associates. Little do the...
Runtime:
90 min
5.8
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Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead
(2011)
Comedy, Horror
Wracked with guilt over the suicide of her sister Ai, who was tormented by high school bullies, pretty young karate student Megu accompanies a group of older friends on a camping trip into the woods: smart girl Aya, her druggie boyfriend Také, big-boobed model Maki, and nerdy Naoi. Things start to go badly when Maki finds a parasitical...
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Noboru Iguchi
Cast:
Asami, Danny, Kentaro Kishi, Asana Mamoru, Arisa Nakamura
4.8
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Karate-Robo Zaborgar
(2011)
Action, Science Fiction
An evil criminal organisation called Sigma kidnap prominment business leaders to harvest their DNA and only Karate-Robo Zaborgar can save them.
Runtime:
114 min
6.5
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Sukeban Boy
(2006)
Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A raucous teen boy with a feminine face is teased everywhere, so his odd biker father dresses him as a girl and sends him to an all-girl school. The lad introduces himself as Sukeban, and a classmate, Michiko, takes him to after-school activities. Lessons on humility turn violent when a masked hatchet-wielding woman turns up. Jealousy,...
Runtime:
62 min
Director:
Noboru Iguchi
Cast:
Asami, Demo Tanaka, Sarasa Tani, Hiroaki Murakami, Risa Mizuki
5.3
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Tomie: Unlimited
(2011)
Horror
Tsukiko is part of the photography club at school, but has always felt less than her sister Tomie. She's cute and very popular among boys. However, one day, Tomie dies in a horrible accident, triggering endless nightmares for Tsukiko. One year later, right when Tomie was supposed to turn 18, someone knocks on the door. Tomie is back. L...
Runtime:
85 min
4.5
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Nuigulumar Z
(2014)
Action, Comedy, Horror
A gothic lolita merges with a teddy bear to fight zombies and save the world.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Noboru Iguchi
Cast:
Shôko Nakagawa, Rina Takeda, Jiji Bû, Norman England, Mao Ichikawa
5.8
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Live
(2014)
Comedy, Thriller
One day, Naoto receives a package. Inside he finds a book, ‘LIVE’. At the same time, he receives an image on mobile phone of his mother being kidnapped and a call from a mysterious man. “If you don’ t want us to inject the killer virus in your mother, find the hints hidden in the novel and head for the goal in the death race!” Naoto st...
Runtime:
105 min
5.2
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Shyness Machine Girl
(2009)
Action, Comedy, Science Fiction
Ami's friend, Yoshie, was murdered and desecrated by the Kimura Gang. She was saved and, like Ami in the previous film, received modifications from the same mechanics. Remembering her past, Yoshie decides to avenge herself and Ami.
Runtime:
22 min
Director:
Noboru Iguchi
Cast:
Noriko Kijima, Kentarô Shimazu, Minase Yashiro, Demo Tanaka, Asami
4.9
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Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Snake Girl
(2005)
Fantasy, Horror
Yumiko has been invited by her cousin to spend summer vacation in a rural village. Once they arrive, she is mad to feel very unwelcome by the mysterious locals who keep referring to her as "Snake Girl."
Runtime:
53 min
5.2
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The Ancient Dogoo Girl: Special Movie Edition
(2010)
Action, Comedy, Fantasy
A stay-at-home nerd's dream comes true when he unearths a strange breastplate and awakens a sexy monster hunter named Dogoo, who brings him along her adventure with wacky monsters.
Runtime:
75 min
Director:
Noboru Iguchi
Cast:
Masataka Kubota
5.9
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Cat-Eyed Boy
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Cat-Eyed Boy
(2006)
Horror
A film adaption of the manga Cat Eyed Boy by famous horror manga artist Kazuo Umezu. The film follows a strange boy with cat like features.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Noboru Iguchi
5.6
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New Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: Ghost Story
(2012)
Horror
New kind of horror films are added to "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro" series directed by a cult filmmaker, Noboru Iguchi (Machine Girl). The series has four episodes starring a Japanese idol group, S/mileage!
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Noboru Iguchi, Ichirô Nakayama
5.7
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The ABCs of Death
(2013)
Horror
An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in ...
Runtime:
123 min
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Bad Butt
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Bad Butt
(2012)
Action, Comedy
The story of a high school girl and a certain part of her body that has turned into a monster. A horrifying and erotic story from the mad mind of Noboru Iguchi (THE MACHINE GIRL, KARATE ROBO-ZABORGAR).
Runtime:
8 min
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Yoshie Zero
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Yoshie Zero
(2010)
Action, Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
A short film prequel to Mutant Girls Squad.
Runtime:
14 min
Director:
Noboru Iguchi
Cast:
Suzuka Morita, Tak Sakaguchi, Yui Murata, Demo Tanaka, Gen Satô
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