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Ito has also cited H. R. Giger, Salvador Dalí, and others as influences on his work as well. [22] Childhood [ edit ] Kao Dorobou (The Face Burglar) - 2000 VHS or DVD | Request Details". Otsukai. Archived from the original on September 20, 2022 . Retrieved September 20, 2022. Jôhô, Hidenori; Kinoshita, Takao; Kôno, Keita (April 11, 2015), Yo ni mo Kimyô na Monogatari Spring 2015 (Mystery), Fuji Television Network, Kyodo Television, archived from the original on September 21, 2022 , retrieved September 20, 2022

Ito began to draw manga at the age of 4, taking inspiration from the works he read in magazines. He continued to draw as a hobby until he became a dental technician in 1984, where he struggled to find a balance between the two. [6]

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Adapted from Osamu Dazai’s 1948 novel No Longer Human, this despairing, incrementally devastating novel tells the story of Yozo Oba, a young man whose acute perceptions of social artifice drag him into a quagmire of affectless dispassion and psychotically alienated action. Incapable of forming any real connection with those around him, he ambles abusively from lover to lover, pursuing a hazily defined dream of becoming an artist. Ito’s talent for monstrous depiction and grim surrealism bristles against Dazai’s otherwise realist setting here, the communist cells of early 20th century Tokyo depicted as frenetic hornet hives, the bodies of adulterous partners awkwardly entwined as animal grotesqueries. But the real draw here is in Ito’s bracing realisation of Oba’s paintings – something that Dazai could only describe in the original – which punctuate the book as morbid markers of a disaffected psyche; gaseous wraiths peep through a pungent tangle of withered herbs, a portrait collapses under the weight of its own depiction of hopelessness. As Oba’s health declines after multiple failed suicide attempts, we see him stumble upon a snow-blanketed street, eventually vomiting a puddle of blood across a crisp white sidewalk. As the blood resolves itself into the form of a vibrant rising sun, a phalanx of skeletal conscripts marches past on their own forlorn journey to war. Ito’s retelling constantly suspends personal crises under the overbearing weight of a history defined by social obligation. You’ll need plenty of cups of green tea and a comforting mochi or two to get through this one. a b c d "Journal des chats de Junji Ito (le)". Manga News (in French). 2 November 2015. Archived from the original on 9 November 2019 . Retrieved 9 November 2019. Ito studied and graduated from a vocational school with a degree in Dental Technology before working as a dental technician, where he worked for 3 years until he became a full-time mangaka. [6] [26] Ito found anatomical interest in the books for the medical students, which he used to study muscles. [6] He is also cited stating the schooling gave him more inspiration for his tools in drawing, namely pens and how to whittle pencils like dentures. [6] [20] Themes [ edit ]

Finish cataloging missing information for releases in Junji Ito Stories (example Junji Ito Stories#"The Face Burglar" Speelman, Tom (July 25, 2021). "Junji Ito thinks the world has gotten scarier, but not as scary as his manga". Polygon. Archived from the original on March 30, 2023 . Retrieved March 30, 2023. Collection of Short stories originally released in the mid-1990s. Includes The Beautiful Boy at the Crossroads, A Woman in Distress, Shadow, Screams in the Night, The Boy in White, Narumi’s Boyfriend, The Seance, The Mansion of Phantom Pain, The Rib Woman, Memories of Real Poop.It’s been 35 years since Junji Ito debuted on Japan’s manga scene with the first installment of Tomie, a long-running tale of a demonic young woman whose beauty drives her lovers murderously insane. Ito has since become one of horror’s most revered creators, writing and illustrating long-form masterpieces such as Uzumaki and Gyo as well as unforgettable shorts like “The Hanging Balloons,” “Glyceride,” and “The Enigma of Amigara Fault”—that is, when he’s not drawing Pokémon or publishing funny, charming comics about life with cats. Higuchinsky, Nagai yume (Drama, Fantasy, Horror), KTV, Omega Micott Inc., TV Asahi, archived from the original on October 5, 2021 , retrieved September 20, 2022 originally published as Travelogue of the Succubus. A woman walks alone at the foot of Mount Sengoku. A man appears, saying he’s been waiting for her, and invites her to a nearby village. Surprisingly, the village is covered in hairlike volcanic glass fibers, and all of it shines a bright gold. At night, when the villagers perform their custom of gazing up at the starry sky, countless unidentified flying objects come raining down on them, the opening act for the terror about to occur. 7 Chapters.

Shiver– What better way to discover Ito than by a selection of his best short stories? This is what offers Shiver, a volume that includes nine short stories selected by the author himself and presented here with accompanying notes and commentary. His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen. a b c d e f g h i j k "An Interview With Master of Horror Manga Junji Ito (Full Length Version)". Grape Japan. June 10, 2019. Archived from the original on July 30, 2021 . Retrieved April 9, 2020.Hallucinations' stories take place in different dimensions, but share the theme of the titular character/s Oshikiri and the interdimensional portal that exists in his/their house Born in 1963 in Sakashita (now Nakatsugawa), a semi-rural town in the heartlands of Honshu, Ito was introduced to horror comics as a child by his two older sisters whose hand-me-downs included works by Shinichi Koga and renowned mangaka Kazuo Umezu, author of the trans-dimensional romp The Drifting Classroom (1972-74). In a short comics memoir, ‘Master Umezz And Me’ (2014), Ito would relay the influence of Umezu, recounting that a period spent in hospital with appendicitis was made bearable by the older artist’s Makoto-Chan gag manga (“it made me laugh so hard, even though I had a drain in my stomach”), and how some of his own earliest exercises in comics art were alternative drafts of the Drifting saga. McWhertor, Michael (September 27, 2015). "Silent Hills had another awesome creative talent: horror manga master Junji Ito". Polygon. Vox Media. Archived from the original on August 2, 2022 . Retrieved September 27, 2015.