Noboru Iguchi | |
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_(30794554172).jpg) Director Noboru Iguchi at the Horror and Fantasy Film Festival,Donostia-San Sebastián, 2016 | |
| Born | (1969-06-28)June 28, 1969 (age 55) Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
| Occupation(s) | Film director Screenwriter Actor |
| Years active | 1996 – present |
| Height | 162 cm (5 ft 4 in) |
| Website | http://blog.livedoor.jp/iguchinoboru/ |
Noboru Iguchi (井口昇,Iguchi Noboru) (born June 28, 1969) is aJapanese film director, screenwriter and actor. He has worked as a director inadult video (AV) as well as in the horror and gore genres.
Iguchi was born on June 28, 1969.[1] 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.[2]
In his extensive career as an AV director, Iguchi has worked for a number of studios includingCineMagic, Big Morkal,Try-Heart,h.m.p andSoft On Demand (SOD).Nana Natsume and Risa Coda have been among theAV Idols featured in his videos.[3] His videos have explored several of the typical Japanese AV genres, from incest for SOD[4] to"nakadashi",[5] bondage,[6] group sex[7] and some enema fetish videos for CineMagic.[8][9]
His videoFinal Pussy starringNana Natsume won the Best Rental Video Award at the 2005SOD Awards.[10] 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 byYoshihiro Nishimura.[11][12]
One of Iguchi's early movies wasKurushime-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 1998Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival and starred Aki Arai, Miako Tadano andTomoko Matsunashi.[13][14]
In 2003, Iguchi wrote and directed the horror comedyA Larva to Love (恋する幼虫,Koi-suru Yōchū) (with effects byYoshihiro Nishimura) about a strange relationship involving a boy, a girl, and a parasite.[15][16] Iguchi also wrote and directed the February 2006 filmSukeban Boy orOira Sukeban (おいら女蛮 スケバン,Oira sukeban) with AV starAsami.[17][18] At an interview at theNew 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."[19]
Later in 2006, Iguchi directedCat-Eyed Boy (猫目小僧,Nekome kozō) based on themanga byKazuo Umezu.[20][21] The movie, withgravure idolMiku Ishida, Asami Kumakiri, Hiromasa Taguchi,Naoto Takenaka andKanji Tsuda, was released theatrically in Japan in June 2006, and on DVD in October of the same year.[22]
Iguchi was also both the screenwriter and director for the 2008 action and gore cult filmThe Machine Girl (片腕マシンガール,Kataude mashin gāru) where he once again teamed up withYoshihiro Nishimura who did the special effects and makeup effects.[23][24] 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.[2] Iguchi was a special guest at the 2009 and 2010New York Asian Film Festival.[25]
In 2010, Iguchi directed his largest-budgeted feature, the action filmKarate-Robo Zaborgar, based on the popular 1970s television seriesDenjin Zaborger. He followed it with thescatological horror/comedyZombie Ass in 2011.[26]
In 2012 he directed the short filmFart forThe ABC’s of Death.
