Lone Wolf and Cub, Volume 3: The Flute of the Fallen Tiger

by Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima (Artist), Frank Miller (Cover Artist)

Overview

Join renegade samurai Itto Ogami and his infant son, Daigoro, in five more adventures on the dark road to Hell. What do three mysterious Shogunate assassins, a street entertainer, and the crests of the dead have in common? "The Baby Cart Wolf" continues his dealing of death for gold and encounters one ronin who is bent on putting a stop to his journey. Will he succeed? Follow the monthly adventures of Lone Wolf and Cub, one of the true classics of comics literature, available in America for the first time in over a decade!

This volume contains the following stories:
The Flute of the Fallen Tiger
Half Mat, One Mat, A Fistful of Rice
The White Path Between the Rivers
The Virgin and the Whore
Close Quarters

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621150688
Publisher:	Dark Horse Comics
Publication date:	11/16/2010
Series:	Lone Wolf and Cub Series , #3
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	181 MB
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About the Author

Kazuo Koike 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 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. 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.

Goseki Kojima was a Japanese manga artist known for his collaborations with Kazuo Koike. The team was often referred to as the “Golden Duo.” Kojima’s best-known work was Lone Wolf and Cub. Other titles attributed to Kojima are Samurai Executioner and Path of the Assassin. In 2004, Kojima won an Eisner Award.