Kazuo Koike is a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur.
The author lives in Tokyo, Japan..
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.
Koike and Kojima became known as the Golden Duo because of the success of Lone Wolf and Cub .
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.
Early in Koike\'s career, he studied under Golgo 13 creator Takao Saito and served as a writer on the series.
Kazuo Koike is a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur
