Ito's work Uzumaki was nominated for an Eisner Award in 20. Itō and Del Toro would later lend their likenesses to Kojima's next project, Death Stranding. However, a year after its announcement, the project was canceled by Konami, the IP's owner. įilm director Guillermo del Toro cited on his official Twitter account that Ito was originally a collaborator for the video game Silent Hills, of which both Del Toro and game designer Hideo Kojima were the main directors. Ito teamed up with Takashi Nagasaki and former diplomat Masaru Sato to create Yūkoku no Rasputin (2010–2012), based on Sato's personal experiences in Russia, for Big Comic. This story ran for 13 years and was later serialized as Tomie. In 1987, he submitted a short story to Monthly Halloween that won an honorable mention in the Kazuo Umezu Prize (with Umezu himself as one of the judges).
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. Ito began to draw manga at the age of 4, taking inspiration from the works he read in magazines. In the house where he lived, the bathroom was at the end of an underground tunnel, where there were spider crickets such experiences were later reflected in his works. He grew up in the countryside, in a small city next to Nagano. He began his experience in the horror world at a very young age, with his first manga being Mummy Teacher by Kazuo Umezu his two older sisters read Umezu and Shinichi Koga in magazines, and consequently, he began reading them too. Junji Ito was born on Jin Sakashita, now a part of Nakatsugawa, Gifu.
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