Shinji Ito is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on July 31, 1963 in Nakatsugawa, Japan. Junji Ito was born on 31 July 1963 in Sakashita located in the present day area of Nakatsugawa, Gifu. The first time he was exposed to the horror genre when he was a child as his older sisters study Kazuo Umezu or Shinichi Koga’s stories in magazine. Eventually Junji Ito began to read the same magazines. He was raised in the countryside, the city of a tiny town near Nagano. The house in which his bathroom was situated at the bottom of an underground passageway, where spider crickets were found These events were later documented in his art.
In 2006, Junji married Ishiguro Ayako (Shi Hei Ya Shi Zi ), a picture book artist. In 2013 the couple has two children.
Junji Ito (Japanese: 伊藤 潤二 , Hepburn: Itō Junji, born July 31, 1963) is a Japanese horror mangaka. 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 obsessed with spirals, and Gyo, a two-volume story where fish are controlled by a strain of sentient bacteria called “the death stench.” His other works are Itou Junji Kyoufu Manga Collection, a collection of different short stories including a series of stories named Souichi’s Journal of Delights, and Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu, a self-parody about him and his wife living in a house with two cats.
Itō first began writing and drawing manga as a hobby while working as a dental technician in around 1984. In 1987, he submitted a short story to Gekkan Halloween (月刊ハロウィン , lit. Monthly Halloween) that won an honorable mention in the Kazuo Umezu Prize (with Umezu himself as one of the judges). This story was later serialized as Tomie.
Tomie was later adapted into the form of a series of films from 1999. Many other works by Ito were later adapted for television and film:
