
Noboru Iguchi
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1969-06-28 (55 years old)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Noboru Iguchi
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting
(2017)
Cinema Capriccio
as Self
(2010)
Mutant Girls Squad
as Ancient Nobleman
(2010)
Helldriver
as Blue alien
(2009)
Yamagata Scream
as Bishu Urikawara
(2005)
(2004)
(2004)
(2004)
(2004)
(2004)
Cutie Honey
as Assistant Supervisor
(2001)
Quartet for Two
as Stalker
(2001)
(2000)
(1997)
(1994)
(1994)
(1993)
Down the Drain
as Teacher
(1992)
(1992)
The Pregnant Woman
as Takeshi
(1990)
Bicycle Sighs
as Bear (voice)
(1989)
(1988)
Crew
Cannibal Girls
Director
(2025)
The Cannibal Girl
Director, Writer, Original Story
(2023)
Tales of Bliss & Heresy
Screenplay, Director
(2022)
IDOL NEVER DiES
Director, Writer
(2019)
The Island of Giant Insects - Live-Action PV
Editor, Director
(2019)
The Flowers of Evil
Director
(2018)
Shoujo Picaresque
Director
(2018)
Ghost Squad
Director, Screenplay
(2018)
Lock-On Love
Director
(2018)
Fun House
Director
(2017)
Slavemen
Director, Screenplay
(2017)
The Blue Hearts
Director
(2016)
Devotion to Cinema
Writer, Director
(2015)
Hentaidan
Director
(2015)
Damager
Director, Producer, Screenplay
(2014)
Nuigulumar Z
Director, Screenplay
(2014)
Raining Blood
Writer, Director
(2013)
The ABCs of Death
Director, Writer
(2012)
Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead
Screenplay, Director
(2012)
Dead Sushi
Director, Writer
(2012)
Bad Butt
Director, Writer
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
(2011)
Tomie: Unlimited
Director, Screenplay
(2011)
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
Director, Screenplay, Writer
(2010)
Mutant Girls Squad
Writer, Director
(2010)
(2010)
Yoshie Zero
Director, Writer
(2010)
GeishaCop: Fearsome Geisha Corps - Go to Hell
Editor, Writer, Director
(2009)
Shyness Machine Girl
Director, Writer
(2009)
RoboGeisha
Director, Writer
(2009)
Hypertrophy Genitals Girl
Writer, Director
(2008)
The Machine Girl
Director, Screenplay
(2008)
Tales of Terror: Gi
Director
(2007)
(2006)
Sukeban Boy
Director, Writer
(2006)
Manji
Art Direction, Director
(2006)
Cat-Eyed Boy
Director
(2006)
Tales of Terror: Final Night 2
Director
(2006)
Tales of Terror: Final Night 1
Director
(2005)
(2004)
(2004)
The Devil's Cop Festival
Director
(2003)
Atopy Detective
Director
(2003)
Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri
Director
(2003)
A Larva to Love
Cinematography, Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
(2001)
(2001)
Final Fuck!
Director
(1999)
Sky
Director
(1999)
毒婦/妖しい炎
Director, Screenplay
(1998)
クルシメさん ニューバージョン
Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography
(1997)
Kurushime-san
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
(1997)
Watashi to kurushime san
Director
(1996)
(1994)
(1988)
Wabishabi
Director