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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 Kozure Okami (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 Tokyio, Japan.
Synopsis
Kazuo Koike's Lone Wolf and Cub is an acclaimed masterpiece of graphic fiction, and New Lone Wolf and Cub is the 21st century sequel to this groundbreaking manga. Illustrated by Hideki Mori and translated by Dana Lewis.
Togo Shigekata and the Lone Wolf's son, Daigoro, travel to Edo to kill a traitor--and the Shogun who commands him Hunted by Shogunate riflemen, Togo and Daigoro find an unexpected ally in the notorious highwayman Musubi-no-doraza. But can the double-crossing brigand be trusted? And can they escape even deadlier pursuers, the Ushikudonki ninja?