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. 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.
Goseki Kojima was a Japanese manga artist known for his
collaborations with Kazuo Koike. The team was often referred to as
the “Golden Duo.” Kojima’s best-known work was Lone Wolf and Cub.
Other titles attributed to Kojima are Samurai Executioner and Path
of the Assassin. In 2004, Kojima won an Eisner Award.
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