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Kazuo Koike has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1980s.
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
1972 · Movie · Writer
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
1972 · Movie · Writer
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
1973 · Movie · Writer
Top 14%Max · Included
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
1972 · Movie · Writer
Top 22%Max · Included
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
1972 · Movie · Writer
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Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.
Dir. Kenji Misumi · With Tomisaburō Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ōki
Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei.
Dir. Buichi Saitō · With Tomisaburō Wakayama, Yoichi Hayashi, Michi Azuma
Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assignment.
Dir. Kenji Misumi · With Tomisaburō Wakayama, Michiyo Yasuda, Akihiro Tomikawa
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
Dir. Kenji Misumi · With Tomisaburō Wakayama, Fumio Watanabe, Tomoko Mayama
A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai swore to avenge the death of his wife and roams the countryside with his toddler son in search of vengeance.
Dir. Robert Houston, Kenji Misumi · With Tomisaburō Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Kayo Matsuo
Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
Dir. Kenji Misumi · With Tomisaburō Wakayama, Gō Katō, Yūko Hamada
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