Noboru Iguchi

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 (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 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 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 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. In 2012 he directed the short film Fart for The ABC’s of Death.

• A Larva to Love (2003) • Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Snake Girl (2005) • Manji (2006) • Sukeban Boy (2006) • Cat-Eyed Boy (2006) • The Machine Girl (2008) • Shyness Machine Girl (2009) • RoboGeisha (2009) • Sentō Shōjo: Chi no Tekkamen Densetsu (2010) • Karate-Robo Zaborgar AKA Denjin Zaborger (2011) • Tomie Unlimited (2011) • Zombie Ass (2011) • Dead Sushi (2012) • Nuigurumaa Z (2014) • Live (2014) • Kakugo wa Iika Soko no Joshi (2018) • Ghost Squad (2018) • The Flowers of Evil (2019) • IDOL NEVER DiES (2022) • Tales of Bliss and Heresy (2023)