Kazuo Koike

Kazuo Koike (小池一夫, 1936-2019) was a Japanese manga writer and screenwriter from Akita Prefecture. He is best known for Lone Wolf and Cub, the samurai series he wrote with artist Goseki Kojima from 1970, which was adapted into films and television and is widely translated. He also wrote Crying Freeman and Lady Snowblood, ran a manga-writing school, and later was active on social media until his death in April 2019.