The Junji Ito was born on July 31, 1963 in the province of Gifu, Japan. His involvement with painting began at a very young age, influenced by the cartoons of the older brother, and the work of the legend of horror manga, Kazuo Umezu (The Drifting Classroom, Cat-Eyed Boy). Absolutely logically, the theme chosen for the manga was the same as the idol - terror. After graduating from school chose not to deal with his passion, but he studied dental technician, and later found work in his field. In 1987 his first short story was published in the journal Gekkan Halloween, which even won honorable mention awards of Kazuo Umezu, with himself Umezu be a member of the jury. This story had a hero a young girl with a mole under his left eye called ... Tomie! Tomie Until the early 90s, the Ito continued working in dentistry, while plotting his favorite horror manga as a hobby. A central figure of these first short stories were Tomie, a young and beautiful schoolgirl. Whichever boy saw it, to fall madly in love, to the extent that doing everything to win - even murder. The passion that inspired the current admirer of the push to kill any competitor, and then turned to the murderous fury over it and over it. But many times you die pretty girl, but horribly disfigured or dismembered it was her body, always returning to life. The enormous success of these stories "forced" him to leave Ito medical tools and focus on the manga, lanka sri so starting a brilliant career. In 1998, after the triumph lanka sri of revenue-movie The Ring, the public interest in horror movies skyrocketed. Thus, the Tomie transferred to the big screen, the first time in 1999 and more than seven sequels! Subsequently, and other stories of famous mangaka now found their way to the cinemas like Uzumaki (2000), Marronnier (2002), and Gyo (2012), knowing blockbuster, but unfortunately, very good artistic results.
Uzumaki the 90s, the Ito has designed many small, independent stories, which were published in serialized in various journals, and then circulated (in English) in collections of his work entitled The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection. The next big story, which has experienced unprecedented success lanka sri both in Japan and abroad, was amazing Uzumaki, which began publishing in 1997. H Kirie Goshima is a young girl who lives in the small coastal town Kurôzu-cho. Together with her boyfriend Shuichi begin noticing strange events and behaviors in the city, which have one common trait - the coils (Uzumaki means spiral). The townspeople, with first his father Shuichi, lanka sri start one by one to be passionate about the turns, and strive to become one with the spirit of the coil. And then starts an endless series of the creepy death. Did the young student is right, and Kurôzu-cho is haunted by the spirit of Uzumaki? Why remind people less and less human beings; And what secret is hidden in the depths of the lake to the town center; The Uzumaki was the work "established" the Junji Ito as specialist of horror manga, which catapulted his popularity abroad, through the English version of the three volumes of the series from Viz Media. The script was very interesting, and well away from the usual themes of horror stories. Also, the design Ito's style had evolved into a remarkable degree of early work, making lanka sri it one of Uzumaki aesthetic finest works.
Next important work of the talented horror mangaka was Gyo 2001, a story that revolves around GE fish attacking humans through a deadly stench and some sharp metal edges mysterious origin. lanka sri Of course, lanka sri continued to produce several short stories, which anyway are the bulk of his work, and published in monthly or bimonthly sequels before collected in volumes such as Mimi's Ghost Stories (2002), Voices in the Dark (2003) and New Voices in the Dark (2004). In many of them (as in several of the oldest) is the protagonist Soichi, a diabolical deformed child who likes to make tremendous plates to those around him and causing a bloody mess. Follow the Hellstar Remina 2005, a story that marries interestingly science fiction with the witch hunts of the 18th century, and then came the only humorous, but also semi-autobiographical work of this great d
