# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/junji-ito
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:10:53.785Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/junji-ito"
name: "Junji Itō"
slug: "junji-ito"
description: "Junji Ito  is a Japanese horror manga artist. 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 cursed by spirals; and Gyo, a two-volume story in which fish are controlled by a strain of bacteria called \"the death stench.\" His other works include The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection, a collection of his many short stories, and Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu, a self-parody about him and his wife living in a house with two cats."
tagline: "Japanese horror writer and mangaka"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Junji_Ito_-_Lucca_Comics_%26_Games_2018_02.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963-07-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           60.46
  momentum:             4.225536738820846
  historical:           24.90777333333333
  currentAttention:     22.2082547663943
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/junjiitofficial"
    handle:    "junjiitofficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0411702/"
    handle:    "nm0411702"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tonkam.com/catalogue_manga.php?type=auteurs&id=14"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junji_Ito"
    title: "Junji Ito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Junji Ito"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junji_It%C5%8D"
    title: "Junji Itō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ppl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junji_It%C5%8D"
    title: "Junji Itō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q744237"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump