伊藤潤二の呪いの館　Junji Ito's Haunted House

1963年7月31日、岐阜県中津川市で誕生。高校卒業後、歯科技工士の学校へ入学し、職を得るも、『月刊ハロウィン』（朝日ソノラマ）新人漫画賞「楳図かずお賞」の創設をきっかけに、楳図氏に読んでもらいたい一念で投稿。1986年、投稿作「富江」で佳作受賞。本作がデビュー作となり、代表作になる。3年後、歯科技工士を辞め、漫画家業に専念。「道のない街」「首吊り気球」「双一」シリーズ、「死びとの恋わずらい」などの名作を生みだしていく。1998年から『ビックコミックスピリッツ』（小学館）で「うずまき」の連載を開始。その後も「ギョ」や「潰談」など唯一無二の作品を発表し続け、2017年に漫画家生活30周年を迎えた。

Born on July 31st 1963 in Nakatsugawa city of Gifu prefecture, Japan. After graduating from high school, he attended college to become a dental technician. While pursuing career as a dental technician, he decided to submit his work to「Monthly HALLOWEEN」(ASAHI SONORAMA), during when an amateur manga award, the Kazuo Umezu Prize was established, with a slim hope that Umezu might read his work. During 1986, as a debut published work,「Tomie」won an award and became one of his masterpieces. 3 years later, he decided to end his profession as a dental technician and pursue his career as a manga writer. Soon after, he publishes numerous masterpieces such as「The Town Without Streets」,「Head-Hanging Air Balloon」, and also「Souichi」series, 「Lovesick Dead」. From 1998, he started serializing 「Uzumaki」in 『Big Comic Spirts』（SHOGAKUKAN Inc.）. Even after 1998, he kept creating one and only masterpieces, which includes 「Gyo」and「The Crush Story」and on 2017 he celebrated the 30th anniversary as an manga writer.

伊藤潤二の作品は、その多くが映像化されてきた。近年は日本のみならず海外での活躍も目覚ましく、翻訳出版は11か国に及ぶ。2015年12月から3か月にわたり、台湾の台北市で展覧会を開催。チケットは8万枚売れ、7万3千人が入場した。2017年にはその巡回展が上海と香港で開かれた。中国やアメリカで作品の映像化も進んでいる。

Many of Ito's works have been visualized over years. As his works gain popularity overseas, they are now published in 11 different countries. The 3-month exhibition held on December 2015 in Taiwan was a great success with 80,000 tickets sold and 73,000 visitors. During 2017, this exhibition was also held in Shanghai and Hong Kong. His works are currently being visualized in China and The United States.