Samurai Executioner Omnibus Volume 3 - Softcover

Kazuo Koike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616555319 ISBN 13: 9781616555313

Publisher: Dark Horse, 2014

Synopsis

When an execution is ordered of a man backed by hundreds whose vital services the city of Edo cannot function without, the Shogunate government seems powerless to carry out the sentence lest the city descend into chaos. And so Yamada Asaemon, the Shogun's sword tester and executioner, must mete out justice unaided in a manner that will keep Edo from exploding! From Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, the legendary creators of Lone Wolf and Cub (Dark Horse), comes Samurai Executioner, a dark, complex exploration of Edo-period feudal Japan and the depths of the human spirit.

About this title

About the Author:

Kazuo Koike (小池 --夫, Koike Kazuo) is a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur. Early in Koike's career, he studied under Golgo 13 creator Takao Saito and served as a writer on the series.
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. 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. The author lives in Tokyo, Japan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dark Horse
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1616555319
• ISBN 13: 9781616555313
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1