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- Noboru Iguchi is a prolific Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor known for his unique contributions to the "splatter" and cult action genres. He first gained international attention with his breakout 2008 hit The Machine Girl, which helped define a new wave of over-the-top, low-budget Japanese genre cinema. His style is frequently characterized by a blend of extreme gore, surreal comedy, and imaginative practical special effects.
Throughout his career, Iguchi has demonstrated a remarkable ability to blend traditional Japanese pop culture tropes with subversive horror. His notable works include RoboGeisha, Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead, and the "A" segment in the international anthology The ABCs of Death. Beyond gore, he has also ventured into more mainstream territory, directing the live-action adaptation of the acclaimed manga The Flowers of Evil.
Iguchi began his career in the independent and adult film industries, which heavily influenced his fearless and unconventional approach to filmmaking. He is a frequent collaborator with special effects artist Yoshihiro Nishimura and remains a celebrated figure in the global cult cinema circuit, often appearing as an actor in the projects of his contemporaries.
- IMDb mini biography by: Nizam Miah
- Spouse?(March 20, 2011 - present)
- Often works with _Yoshihiro Nishimura_
- Films often involves things coming out of people's rectums such as the girl with the chainsaw in _Mutant Girls Squad (2011)_, the girls with the swords in _Robo-Geisha (2009)_ and _ the giant tapeworms in _Zombie Ass: The Toilet of the Dead (2011)_.
- Often casts _Asami_
- Films contain a lot of gore.
- Is an original member of the Fundoshi Corps, along with Yoshihiro Nishimura and Yukihiko Yamaguchi.
- Has a close working relationship with Yoshihiro Nishimura's Nishimura Motion Picture Model Makers Group (Y.K. Nishimura Eizô), as he and Nishimura are good friends.
- Sukeban Boy (2006) became the international breakthrough movie of Noboru Iguchi's career, as a result of the coverage it received from then-independent movie news website Twitch, beginning a month before its Japanese theatrical release.
- The "true source of virtually all English language" information online relating to him and Yoshihiro Nishimura is Marc Walkow, according to Todd Brown of XYZ Films' movie news website screenanarchy.com.
- Is a member of Nihon Eiga Kantoku Kyôkai a/k/a Directors Guild of Japan (DGJ).
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