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Junji Ito
Birth at
31 July 1963
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Junji Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963. Since childhood, he was fascinated by the drawings of his older sister and the comics of Kazuo Umezu. Thanks to them, Junji Ito began drawing horror comics, but after school he became a dental technician and worked in this capacity until the early 1990s, not forgetting, however, about his unusual hobby. Junji Ito won even a prestigious competition and received the Umezu prize for his horror manga.
The main characters of his books are incredibly beautiful
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Junji Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963. Since childhood, he was fascinated by the drawings of his older sister and the comics of Kazuo Umezu. Thanks to them, Junji Ito began drawing horror comics, but after school he became a dental technician and worked in this capacity until the early 1990s, not forgetting, however, about his unusual hobby. Junji Ito won even a prestigious competition and received the Umezu prize for his horror manga.
The main characters of his books are incredibly beautiful girls with long hair. Such are many characters in the Tomie manga and the collection Flesh is the Horror of Color. In his books, hair rebels against being cut off and runs from the head; girls deliberately fall ill to become more beautiful and then kill each other; a woman smears her skin with lotion and removes it to see muscles, but the skin decays and she tries to steal her sister’s skin, etc.
Junji Ito's universe is very fickle and violent; his characters often fall victim to unnatural circumstances as punishment for minor misdeeds.
His largest work, the three-volume "Uzumaki", tells about the obsession of the inhabitants of the city of Kurozu with the idea of a spiral that captures people and frightens them. People are killed in countless incidents. There are no realistic or horrifying depictions of death in the book, but the narrative conveys in great detail the sense of fear experienced by the inhabitants of the city before strange events that are contrary to human nature.
Before Uzumaki. Ito was known as the author of stories about Tomie, a beautiful, eternally young schoolgirl who makes her fans kill her because of terrible jealousy. Fans realize they can never get her and kill her. From each fragment of Tomie's body, a new Tomie is reborn.
In 1998, during the horror boom that followed the success of The Call, the story of Tomie was filmed. After that, many of Ito’s works were filmed in cinema and television.