New Lone Wolf and Cub Volume 4 (New Lone Wolf & Cub)
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Rating | : | 4.99 (937 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1616553596 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2013-10-24 |
Language | : | English |
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Five Stars A great way to learn about Japanese culture during the Shogunate era.. R. P. Glass said From Baby Cart to New Lone Wolf and Cub. Even though I had not expected it to happen, I have been waiting for New Lone Wolf and Cub a long time. I had already been a huge fan of author Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima’s “Baby Cart” samurai saga for decades. I had enjoyed the samurai cinema of Akira Kurosawa and others since college in the ‘60’s, but the screenwriter Koike’s Baby Cart serie. Only for the believers Harold Kwok Too fantastic and unreal.
Koike, along with artist Goseki Kojima, made the manga Kozure Okami (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. . Koike and Kojima became known as the "Golden Duo" because of the success of Lone Wolf and Cub. 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. Early in Koike's career,
Kazuo Koike's Lone Wolf and Cub is an acclaimed masterpiece of graphic fiction, and New Lone Wolf and Cub is the 21st century sequel to this groundbreaking manga. Illustrated by Hideki Mori and translated by Dana Lewis.Togo Shigekata and the Lone Wolf's son, Daigoro, travel to Edo to kill a traitor--and the Shogun who commands him! Hunted by Shogunate riflemen, Togo and Daigoro find an unexpected ally in the notorious highwayman Musubi-no-doraza. But can the double-crossing brigand be trusted? And can they escape even deadlier pursuers, the Ushikudonki ninja?
Koike, along with artist Goseki Kojima, made the manga Kozure Okami (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. . Koike and Kojima became known as the "Golden Duo" because of the success of Lone Wolf and Cub. Another series written by Koike, Crying Free