Noboru Iguchi

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 choosing a word to create a story involving death.

Wracked with guilt over her younger sister's suicide, pretty young karate student Megumi accompanies a group of older friends on a camping trip into the woods, where they're attacked by feces covered undead.

Tamako, a girl suffering from anorexia, falls in love with Yōko, a female photographer who shares the same struggle. The two plan to die together in a double suicide. However, just before doing so, Yōko confesses, “The truth is… I can’t stop wanting to eat you.” And thus begins a twisted ritual of love, filled with terror…

One day, Sonoko, a married woman having a husband, meets young, beautiful Mitsuko. Puzzled Sonoko is charmed by the beauty of Mitsuko, and two people fall into relations between women at the start.

Uzuku Kage," in which a mysterious man who looks like a "shadow" appears behind the back of a woman mentally trapped by her power-harassing boss; "Kataude no Hana," about a high school boy who is attracted to and played around with by a woman with one arm; and "Bakuba," about a young man who feels guilty about eating and defecating due to childhood trauma and a woman who works at a coffee shop. A young man who feels guilty about eating and defecating due to childhood trauma and a woman who works at a coffee shop fall into the realm of love that should never be touched in "Bataille's Table. The stylish images intersecting the episodes depict a man and a woman, each with their own secrets, who transcend their relationship of submission and domination to reach a perverted love.

A high school student steals the panties of a girl he likes but is witnessed, which sets off a chain of events that send his life and the lives of others around him out of control.

Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins.

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.

When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.

Spin-off short film to RoboGeisha, A woman infiltrates Kageno Steel Manufacturers to unravel their plot to take over Japan.

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.

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.

A disgruntled researcher injects his former employers' meal with a serum that turns their sushi into flesh-eating monsters.

Mami is about to give birth and is busy preparing for her baby. Her husband, Murakami, is an office worker, but suddenly stops coming home. Mami is left feeling anxious about her days. Kubo, who lives in the apartment next door, keeps a watchful eye on her. Kubo is a writer who lost his pregnant wife in a traffic accident, so he has an unusual interest in pregnant women and is strongly drawn to Mami. Her husband, Murakami, has abandoned his family and is running away with his lover. And so is something between Mami and Kubo...

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.

A gothic lolita merges with a teddy bear to fight zombies and save the world.

Still reeling from the events of a zombie apocalypse, a young woman, along with a group of allies, makes her way across a dystopian Japan in search of her mother, the Zombie Queen.

An endearingly inept guy who has killer looks but zero experience with girls falls in love with a hard-to-get beauty.

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.

Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.

Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short film inspired by the song.

An evil criminal organisation called Sigma kidnap prominment business leaders to harvest their DNA and only Karate-Robo Zaborgar can save them.

High school seniors Mikayo, Chuko and Kei are forced to join a historical research club to fulfill a graduation requirement. Their teacher, Mr. Kachi, plans a mandatory club trip to a small village called Oshakabe in Yamagata prefecture to study remnants of an ancient clan of warriors called the ochimusha who displayed legendary cowardice in battle. When they arrive, the local villagers hold a special ceremony and construct a "super shrine". As a result, an 800-year seal is broken, unleashing a curse that causes the ochimusha to rise from the grave.

The misadventures of Junko, a schoolgirl who unwittingly sets off a catastrophic chain of events after being caught using her friend's train pass.

Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off the rumors, and urban legends throughout the history of Japan.

Keitai Deka Zenigata Rai follows the adventures of Zenigata Rai (played by Saori Koide), a high school student with a genius IQ of 180, who is also the granddaughter of a legendary police chief. Using her mobile phone as a crucial investigative tool, she helps solve various murder mysteries.

5 male students enrolls at a school that has all female students. The boarding school was formerly an all-girls high school until the new school year. The student council then places the 5 male students in a place known as the prison on charges that they were peeping on the girls in the showers. The 5 male students struggle to escape from the prison. ~~ Based on the manga series with the same name by Hiramoto Akira.

Bookworm Takao falls in love with Nanako, but he cannot express his feelings through words. Instead he secretively acts out in a heat of passion which creates a huge scandal in his school. There is one person who knows his true nature, and this girl will do anything to nurture what this Charles Baudelaire hides.

The Ancient Dogoo Girl is a Japanese comedy tokusatsu series directed by Noboru Iguchi, director of The Machine Girl and RoboGeisha. The show airs on MBS every Wednesday night at 25:25 JST. The ending theme is Denki Groove's "Dareda!". In October 2010, Dogoo Girl premiered its sequel The Ancient Dogoo Girls. The show adds five more Dogoo Girls portrayed by Misaki Momose, Rina Takeda, Manami Nomoto, Maria Yoshikawa, and Haruka Dan. The theme song for the sequel is "Bakuha Seyo! Dogoon V".

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories also known in Japan as Yami Shibai - Live action single series spin-off of the popular animated series of the same name.

Themed around the ambiguities of modern communication, the story of Soredake ga Neck is set in the Hot Hot Mart convenience store, where the mysterious young man known as Muto works in the company of Nekomaru, the slightly sinister store's cat. Is Muto the savior of the Hot Hot Mart? Or is this merely an ominous existence? What sort of stories await at the convenience store?

Sou and Aoi of "Aoki (= immature) Vampire" runs a coffee shop that is open only at night. Due to the influence of the new corona, the monthly blood distribution from the Vampire Association headquarters in Romania has stopped. "Vampires can attack humans and become full-fledged," he says, but it's not easy for the two blue vans who have never sucked blood on their own... Can Sou and Aoi survive the corona wreck?

Tucked away in the darkest depths of this world, tales of the bizarre and the supernatural quietly unfold. These inexplicable stories are chronicled throughout the pages of a certain strange encyclopedia, sheltered within a crumbling, decrepit building. Do you dare to open its cover and experience the horrors firsthand? Each of the macabre tales held within the book's pages details some unusual, surreal experiences that often come to a gruesome end. A man searches for his adulterous wife, only to find himself at the mercy of otherworldly visitors; a boy befriends a snowman who harbors a sinister secret; crop circles suddenly form on a family farm, created by some unexpected visitors; hidden in plain sight, menacing mechanical beings continue on undetected. In all of these horrifying stories, nothing is as simple as it seems, revealing a terrifying darkness that perhaps might have been best left alone.

A small theatre troupe, "ENGINE," has its rehearsal hall in a dirty building near Tsutenkaku Tower, in Osaka. The young members of the troupe, including their lead actress Yamaguchi Mai, are working hard on their rehearsals, even skipping their sleep as the Tokyo performance is just around the corner. The piece they are working on this time is "DICE," the troupe's most famous work. It is a deeply memorable work for the troupe, which was first performed 10 years ago and will make its first performance in Tokyo soon. Therefore, the leader of the troupe, Mr Shigemori, is more enthusiastic than usual, but he is not satisfied with the performance of the troupe members and is becoming increasingly dissatisfied. Then... Mai discovers a VHS videotape labelled "DICE" in the company's archives. It contained rehearsal footage of the first performance 10 years ago... As soon as Mai and her friends see the videotape, strange and inexplicable phenomena begin to occur around them...

The story follows two girls named Shiori and Shimiko who become involved in strange incidents in their town.

Towa Furuya is a handsome high school student, but he has never had girlfriend. Towa and his friends get involved in various love cases taking place at his school.

By chance, a hikikomori named Makoto Sugihara finds a strange breastplate buried in the woods. When he places his palm on the breast plate, its design gets burned into his palm while the action awakens a girl named Dogu-chan, a hyperactive yōkai hunter from the Jōmon period with large breasts. Because he had touched her breastplate, Makoto is now bound to Dogu-chan as she adapts to modern day life, fighting yōkai in magic armor formed by her dogū assistant Dokigoro while slowly prying Makoto out of his shell as he is dragged into her misadventures, whether he likes it or not.

Zenigata Kai appears to be a perfectly ordinary high school student. However, she is actually a secret detective who solves difficult cases one after another.

Zenigata Rui is a high school girl with an IQ of 180 who solves cases using her cell phone as her weapon. Rui takes on numerous challenging cases with Detectives Jun Godai and Ippei Takamura.

Zenigata Mei (Azusa Okamoto) is a detective who solves difficult cases using her innate intuition, wild sense of smell, and IQ of 180. She teams up with Detective Matsuyama and punishes evil with her outstanding deductive reasoning and intellect.

Zenigata Rei (Kaho) is a a middle school student and math prodigy that also works as a secret detective. She uses her IQ of 180 to solve the mysteries of various difficult cases one after another.