# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kazuo-koike
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:41:05.878Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kazuo-koike"
name: "Kazuo Koike"
slug: "kazuo-koike"
description: "Kazuo Koike  was a prolific Japanese manga writer (gensakusha), novelist, screenwriter, lyricist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his violent, artful seinen manga, notably Lone Wolf and Cub, Lady Snowblood and Crying Freeman, which – along with their numerous media adaptations − have been credited for their influence on the international growth of Japanese popular culture."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist (1936-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kozuo_Koike.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-05-08"
deathDate: "2019-04-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.36
  momentum:             14.92990654205607
  historical:           18.16647066666667
  currentAttention:     27.3883696780893
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/koikekazuo"
    handle:    "koikekazuo"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/kazuo.koike.9674"
    handle:    "kazuo.koike.9674"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0463521/"
    handle:    "nm0463521"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A"
    title: "كازو كويكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "كازو كويكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Koike"
    title: "Kazuo Koike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Koike"
    title: "Kazuo Koike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Koike"
    title: "Kazuo Koike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Koike"
    title: "Kazuo Koike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%88_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%87"
    title: "کازوئو کوایکه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Koike"
    title: "Kazuo Koike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Koike"
    title: "Kazuo Koike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Koike"
    title: "Kazuo Koike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E6%B1%A0%E4%B8%80%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "小池一夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Koike_(scenarioschrijver)"
    title: "Kazuo Koike (scenarioschrijver)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Koike"
    title: "Kazuo Koike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Koike"
    title: "Kazuo Koike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Koike"
    title: "Kazuo Koike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Koike"
    title: "Kazuo Koike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Koike"
    title: "Kazuo Koike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koike_Kazuo"
    title: "Koike Kazuo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1f9db7ea-a12b-4c30-a896-f02d1a95b9f3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q967455"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25470"
    title: "Kazuo Koike"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump