Kazuo Koike
Samurai Executioner, known in Japan as , is a 10-volume manga created by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima, the same team that created the popular "Lone Wolf and Cub" series. The series was first serialized in Japan, from 1972–1976. "Samurai Executioner" is set earlier than "Lone Wolf and Cub", with the main character of the former series appearing in a chapter of the latter.