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Junji Ito

Also Known As: Itō Junji, Junji Itou, Junji Itō

Birth Date

July 31, 1963

(63 years old)

Place of Birth

Sakashita, Gifu, Japan

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Biography

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."