Kazuo Koike

Kazuo Koike Japanese 小池 一夫 Hepburn Koike Kazuo May 8 1936 April 17 2019 was a prolific Japanese manga writer novelist screenwriter lyricist and entrepreneur He is best known for his violent artful seinen manga notably Lone Wolf and Cub with Goseki Kojima 19706 Lady Snowblood with Kazuo Kamimura 19723 and Crying Freeman with Ryoichi Ikegami 19868 which along with their numerous media adaptations have been credited for their influence on the international growth of Japanese popular culture