Junji Ito

Junji Ito

Nacimiento : 1963-07-31, Sakashita, Gifu, Japan

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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."

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Junji Ito

Películas

Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
Himself
An exploration of the spirit world as portrayed in the height of the J-horror era of the late ‘90s.
The Legendary Horror Manga Author - Hino Hideshi
Self
A documentary about Hino Hideshi, a famous horror manga artist in Japan.
Gyo Tokyo Fish Attack
Novel
Un devastador, asqueroso "Hedor Muerte" se está extendiendo a través de Japón, creando peces mutantes mortal, ya que cubre la tierra! El país está siendo invadido por los peces feroces con patas de metal afilados, infierno doblado sobre la muerte y la destrucción! En medio de la carnicería, se embarca Kaori en una búsqueda desesperada para encontrar a su novio desaparecido antes de que se pierde en el caos que está barriendo la tierra. Frente a cuatro patas tiburones asesinos, calamares máquina impulsada y los peligros innumerables de Tokio, ahora una zona de guerra urbana, Kaori debe encontrar la verdad detrás de estos monstruos mecánicos y enfrentarse a un mal mayor de lo que nunca podría haber imaginado. Basado en el popular manga del maestro de lo macabro Ito, Junji (Tomie, Uzumaki), Gyo: Ataque Tokio pescado es una extraña emoción-ride que hay que verlo para creerlo!
Tomio
Writer
A young couple, Tomio and Madoka, decide to get married. Madoka convinces Tomio to visit a fortune teller to have their future foretold. Tomio is immediately attracted to the seductive psychic and returns to her late one night. When he comes to his senses and rejects her out of guilt. He tries to leave, and in frustration she puts a curse on him. Now, Tomio roams the streets trying to, literally, keep his head on straight!
Tomio
Director
A young couple, Tomio and Madoka, decide to get married. Madoka convinces Tomio to visit a fortune teller to have their future foretold. Tomio is immediately attracted to the seductive psychic and returns to her late one night. When he comes to his senses and rejects her out of guilt. He tries to leave, and in frustration she puts a curse on him. Now, Tomio roams the streets trying to, literally, keep his head on straight!
Tomie Unlimited
Novel
Tsukiko, es un fotografo, miembro de un Club en la escuela, pero siempre se ha sentido menos que su hermana Tomie. Ella es linda y muy popular entre los niños. Sin embargo, un día, Tomie muere en un accidente horrible, por lo que Tsukiko,le provoca pesadillas escalofriantes. Un año más tarde, cuando Tomie se supone que cumpliría 18 años, y un día alguien llama a la puerta. Tomie está de vuelta. Poco a poco, Tomie comenzará a mostrar su lado más oscuro, por lo que Tsukiko vuelve a tener las mismas horrendas pesadillas.
Tomie vs Tomie
Novel
A young, depressed man is trying to move on with his life after his girlfriend's bizarre death. One day, a mysterious woman notices him at work and convinces his coworkers to introduce him to her.
Tomie: Revenge
Novel
A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
Tomie: Beginning
Novel
Within days after the mysterious new student Kawagami Tomie joins a high school classroom, all hell literally breaks loose. Simple in-fighting between boys and girls over Tomie's oppressive shadow soon gives way to mind-breaking violence, culminating in a grizzly dissection that ultimately leads to suicide, insanity, and even more violence.
The Groaning Drain
Original Story
Set in a house in the suburbs, the film uses black humor to depict the horrors caused by a strange drainage pipe that drags people in.
Marronnier
Novel
Marino is your average young Japanese lady. She likes hanging out with her friends, brushing her teeth and doting over her Marronnier doll. The doll, however, has been created by an evil genius that kidnaps women, uses a machine to turn them into wax and sculpts the wax into dolls in the deceased's likeness. But it doesn't end there. The mad doll-maker's assistant, Numai, is even freakier. He stalks Marino, kidnaps her (and her friends), fails to seduce her, gets rebuffed, laughs like a maniac and tries to melt them into wax! But that's before his other doll 'creations' come to life and attack him…
Tomie: Forbidden Fruit
Comic Book
When a lonely high school girl befriends a strange, mysterious and beautiful girl, it is soon becomes clear that the two girls' meeting was not purely accidental.
Kakashi
Author
The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-land. The locals react repelling to her, which the exception of the Chinese girl Sally. As her car breaks down Kaoru is trapped in the village; will she have to repay for something she has done in the past?
Love Ghost
Writer
Midori acaba de regresar a su pueblo natal después de haber recorrido varios colegios del país. En el instituto local reconoce a Ryusuke, un amiga de la infancia. Al mismo tiempo, surge un rumor en el pueblo: por los alrededores dicen haber visto un chico guapo y misterioso que siempre viste de negro y cuya belleza es tal que los corazones de las chicas se paran y sus cuerpos caen fulminados ante su presencia.
Tomie: Re-birth
Novel
Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of the body. To cheer him up, the boys take the unwitting murderer to the nearest bar for a party... but a mysterious girl named Tomie shows up, bearing a few odd physical resemblances to the dead girl in the ground.
Oshikiri
Novel
Oshikiri is a loner who has bad memories of his childhood and his grandfather, a brilliant scientist. He returns to his grandfather's mansion to try to remember what really happened to him. He finds a portal to a parallel universe, which his grandfather had originally discovered. From this portal comes his doppelganger dressed in a cloak and gas mask, who kills his fellow students with an ancient axe.
Uzumaki
Novel
En Kurozu-Chou, un pequeño pueblo de Japón, Kirie se encuentra con el padre de su novio que graba en silencio un caracol. La obsesión del hombre con las espirales se vuelve cada vez más extraña, terminando en su suicidio en una lavadora que convierte su cuerpo en una espiral. Pronto otros habitantes se vuelven poseídos con diferentes formas de espirales.
Tomie: Replay
Novel
Infected with Tomie's blood, a surgeon disappears, leaving his daughter, Yumi, to try to discover Tomie's identity and to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance.
Long Dream
Writer
Strange things lurk in dreams. For Mukoda Tetsurou and the doctors tending to him, things have begun to get stranger as Mukoda begins having longer and longer dreams every night. Can one dream infinity in the span of a night?
Long Dream
Author
Strange things lurk in dreams. For Mukoda Tetsurou and the doctors tending to him, things have begun to get stranger as Mukoda begins having longer and longer dreams every night. Can one dream infinity in the span of a night?
Tomie: Another Face
Novel
Tomie is a mysterious, beautiful girl you just can't get rid of. She will come to your life from nowhere, and whatever you do, kill her or love her, she will come back to you in the end.
Tomie
Photographer
Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?
Tomie
Novel
Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?
Melody of Dread
Writer
A haunted melody, a used record one must possess. At any cost. Adapted from Junji Ito's short story Used Record.