Description
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Manga
Published: 01/20/2015
Pages: 680
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 7.30h x 5.30w x 2.00d
ISBN13: 9781616555696
ISBN10: 1616555696
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Manga | Fantasy
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Manga | Historical Fiction
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Manga | Crime & Mystery
About the Author
Kazuo Koike is a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur. Early in Koike's career, he studied under Golgo 13 creator Takao Saito and served as a writer on the series. Koike, along with artist Goseki Kojima, made the manga, Lone Wolf and Cub, and Koike also contributed to the scripts for the 1970s film adaptations of the series, which starred famous Japanese actor Tomisaburo Wakayama. Koike and Kojima became known as the Golden Duo because of the success of Lone Wolf and Cub. Another series written by Koike, Crying Freeman, which was illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami, was adapted into a 1995 live-action film by French director Christophe Gans. The author lives in Tokyo, Japan.