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Kazuo Koike
Sign in to saveJapanese manga artist (1936-2019)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 08 May 1936
- Died
- 17 April 2019
- Works
- 316
Top works
- Lone Wolf and Cub Deluxe Edition Volume 1
- 多羅尾伴内
- Lady Snowblood nº 02
- Wounded Man
- Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 11
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Film & TV
Sanoh, Ootamachi-ota, Daisen-City, Senboku, Akita
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, 1970–6), Lady Snowblood (with Kazuo Kamimura, 1972–3) and Crying Freeman (with Ryoichi Ikegami, 1986–8), which – along with…
Known for
- A Beautiful Demon: Kazuo Koike on 'Lady Snowblood' — Self2016
- Archive: Lone Wolf and Cub2008
- Blade of a Father, Soul of a Sword — Self2005
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 13
- Total plays
- 28
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kazuo
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Empire of Japan
- Place of birth
- Ōmagari
- Place of death
- Tokyo
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Notable work
- Crying Freeman
- Genre
- comics
- Image
- Kozuo Koike.jpg
- Work location
- Tokyo
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- name in native language
- 小池一夫
- date of birth
- 1936-05-08
- topic's main category
- Category:Kazuo Koike
- name in kana
- こいけ かずお
- date of death
- 2019-04-17
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- manner of death
- natural causes
- official blog URL
- web.archive.org/web/20150721173351/http://www.koikekazuo.jp
- social media followers
- 853413
- Commons category
- Kozuo Koike
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