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Kazuo Koike

Kazuo Koike

Kazuo Koike

1936-05-08

Sanoh, Ootamachi-ota, Daisen-City, Senboku, Akita

WRITING

Best known for:

Lady Snowblood

Crying Freeman

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx

Shogun Assassin

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

The Princess Blade

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight

The Dragon from Russia

Crying Freeman 1: Portrait of a Killer

Mad Bull 34

Hanappe Bazooka

Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict

Demon Spies

Crying Freeman 2: Shades of Death, Part 1

Lone Wolf and Cub

Crying Freeman

Killer's Romance

Bohachi Bushido: The Villain

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Filmography:

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972)
4.9
WORK AS:
Screenplay, Original Story
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
6.1
WORK AS:
Screenplay, Original Story
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
6.1
WORK AS:
Screenplay, Comic Book
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
5.8
WORK AS:
Screenplay, Original Story
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
6
WORK AS:
Screenplay, Original Story
Lady Snowblood (1973)
6.3
WORK AS:
Original Story
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)
WORK AS:
Story
Lone Wolf and Cub (1973)
WORK AS:
Writer, Creator

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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)
6
WORK AS:
Screenplay, Original Story
Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973)
WORK AS:
Author
Kôkôsei burai hikae: Tsuki no Muramasa (1973)
WORK AS:
Screenplay, Comic Book
Kōkōsei burai hikae: Kanjirū Muramasa (1973)
WORK AS:
Original Story
Murderous Love (1973)
WORK AS:
Script
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)
5
WORK AS:
Original Story
Electroid Zaborger 7 (1974)
WORK AS:
Original Concept, Creator
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
5.8
WORK AS:
Original Story

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Demon Spies (1974)
WORK AS:
Author
Bohachi Bushido: The Villain (1974)
WORK AS:
Comic Book
Hanjiro, A Great Philanderer (1975)
WORK AS:
Comic Book
Shogun Assassin (1980)
5.6
WORK AS:
Screenplay, Original Story
Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword (1982)
WORK AS:
Novel
A Tale of Two Truncheons (1984)
WORK AS:
Original Story, Creator
The Fugitive Samurai (1984)
WORK AS:
Writer
Hanzo: The Razor (1984)
WORK AS:
Original Story
Midnight Demon (1984)
WORK AS:
Story
Darling Betty - Demon Story (1986)
WORK AS:
Original Story, Director
The Scarred Man (1986)
WORK AS:
Original Story
Crying Freeman (1988)
WORK AS:
Creator
Crying Freeman 1: Portrait of a Killer (1988)
WORK AS:
Comic Book
Crying Freeman 2: Shades of Death, Part 1 (1989)
WORK AS:
Comic Book
Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell (1989)
WORK AS:
Original Story, Creator
Mad Bull 34 (1990)
WORK AS:
Novel
Killer's Romance (1990)
WORK AS:
Comic Book
The Dragon from Russia (1990)
WORK AS:
Comic Book
Crying Freeman 3: Shades of Death, Part 2 (1990)
WORK AS:
Comic Book
Crying Freeman 4: A Taste of Revenge (1991)
WORK AS:
Comic Book
Hanappe Bazooka (1992)
WORK AS:
Author
Crying Freeman 5: Abduction in Chinatown (1992)
WORK AS:
Comic Book
Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict (1993)
WORK AS:
Comic Book
A Samurai's Sorrow (1993)
WORK AS:
Story
Hanzo, the Razor (1993)
WORK AS:
Characters, Comic Book
Crying Freeman 6: The Guiding Light of Memory (1994)
WORK AS:
Comic Book
Crying Freeman (1995)
5
WORK AS:
Comic Book
Master Dochu, Grudge and Love (1995)
WORK AS:
Novel
The Princess Blade (2001)
WORK AS:
Comic Book