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Junji Itō
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Japanese horror writer and mangaka
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Junji Itō is a Japanese male author born on 31 July 1963. His name in kana is written as いとう じゅんじ. He has an official website and a Commons category dedicated to his work.
Itō has authored 76 works, with top titles including *Declínio de um Homem*, *Planeta Demoníaco Remina*, *Fragmentos do Horror*, *Relatos terroríficos 1*, and *Moan*. Other sources list varying counts of his works, ranging from 1 to 5. He has 222,459 social media followers and is referenced by 141 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 31 July 1963
- Works
- 76
Top works
- Declínio de um Homem
- Planeta Demoníaco Remina
- Fragmentos do Horror
- Relatos terroríficos 1
- Moan
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Japan
- Active from
- 1968-07-05
Discography
- ファイナルファンタジー外伝 聖剣伝説 想いは調べにのせて1991
- Romancing Sa·Ga: La Romance1992
- Romancing Sa·Ga 2: Eternal Romance1994
- Romancing Sa･Ga 3: Windy Tale1996
- 伊藤賢治ピアノ作品集～Everlasting Melodies～2006
- TVアニメ「この青空に約束を― 〜ようこそつぐみ寮へ〜」Piano Stories2007
- Re:Birth SEIKEN DENSETSU2011
- Re:Birth II Romancing Sa·Ga BATTLE ARRANGE2012
- Re:Birth II ー閃ー "SaGa" BATTLE ARRANGE2014
- Re:Birth II ー連ー "SaGa" BATTLE ARRANGE2015
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Active sites of nitrogen-doped carbon materials for oxygen reduction reaction clarified using model catalysts
· 2016 · cited 4,129x
- Gefitinib versus cisplatin plus docetaxel in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer harbouring mutations of the epidermal growth factor receptor (WJTOG3405): an open label, randomised phase 3 trial
· 2010 · cited 3,273x
- Cloning of adiponectin receptors that mediate antidiabetic metabolic effects
· 2003 · cited 2,544x
- Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in Previously Treated HER2-Low Advanced Breast Cancer
· 2022 · cited 2,444x
- Impairment of starvation-induced and constitutive autophagy in
<i>Atg7</i>
-deficient mice
· 2005 · cited 2,105x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1963-07-31 ) July 31, 1963 (age 62) , Nakatsugawa , Gifu , Japan
- Occupations
- Writer , penciller , inker , manga artist
- Notable work
- Tomie , Uzumaki , Gyo
- Spouse
- Ayako Ishiguro ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2006 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Junji Itō, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~17 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Junji Ito (Japanese: 伊藤 潤二, Hepburn: Itō Junji; born July 31, 1963) is a Japanese horror manga artist. Some of his most notable works include Tomie, a series chronicling an immortal girl who drives her stricken admirers to madness; Uzumaki, a three-volume series about a town cursed by spirals; and Gyo, a two-volume story in which fish are controlled by a strain of bacteria called "the death stench." His other works include The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection, a collection of his many short stories, and Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu, a self-parody about him and his wife living in a house with two cats.
Ito's work has developed a substantial cult following, and Ito has been called an iconic horror manga artist. His manga has been adapted to both film and anime television series, including the Tomie film series and both the Junji Ito Collection and Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre anime anthology series.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Junji Itō” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.