Lone Wolf And Cub

[HuangKaiVun]

Who has read this graphic novel?

I have read the 1st 4 books, and I think they're awesome.

[beiquan]

i've read the first two. really dope...

[Anthroman]

If you like the comic you should check out the movies, really cool stuff.

[HuangKaiVun]

Where could I get my hands on the movies?

[7starmantis]

I'm not sure how available the movies are for purchase, but I'm sure alot of the big retail sites have them. I have a small import video rental store in my area that carries them for rental.

You should know the movies are not called Lone Wolf & Cub. The series was called the 'Sword of Vengence' series and the volumes I have seen are:
"Shogun Assassin", "Lightning Swords of Death", "Baby Cart in Peril", and "Baby Cart in the Land of Demons". In Japan, there are 5 movies in the series, but "Shogun Assassin" is a combination (with some editing) of the first 2 Japanese ones which was released for the US. The last one was probably the best of the series, but all are worth watching. The actor who plays Itto Ogami in all of the series is Tomisaburo Wakayama. The films were made in the early to mid 1970's in Japan by Katsu Productions.

'Adversity is a mirror that reveals one's true self'

[Anthroman]

Here's a link for a place where you can buy the videos on the web:
http://www.animeigo.com/Samurai/

[Son_Goku]

I've read the first one, and i thought it was very well put together. I haven't read it in the new English translation, though i hear that is very well translated. Quite close, as well.

Fear.....Fear attracts the fearful.....The strong....the weak....the innocent....
Fear is my ally

[HuangKaiVun]

At this point, I've read 1 through 7 but not 6.

Favorite story: "Headless Sakon" (Book 3)

[Design Sifu]

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Dark Horse (http://www.darkhorse.com/news/features/pg_feview/sku_40092/item_40092a/index.html) publishing is collecting about 13 volumes of the whole Lone Wolf & Cub series.

Their translations are some of the best as well as their production quality. With Cover art by Frank Millar (for any of you who know him) and a $10 price makes it worth adding to one's library.

I'd get them if I didn't already have the individual issues . . .still . . . hmmmm :rolleyes:


good stuff!

[Design Sifu]

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Dark Horse (http://www.darkhorse.com/news/features/pg_feview/sku_40092/item_40092a/index.html) publishing is collecting about 13 volumes of the whole Lone Wolf & Cub series.

Their translations are some of the best as well as their production quality. With Cover art by Frank Millar (for any of you who know him) and a $10 price makes it worth adding to one's library.

I'd get them if I didn't already have the individual issues . . .still . . . hmmmm :rolleyes:


good stuff!

[HuangKaiVun]

I'm up to #7 now.

Ogami Itto is getting tougher, especially due to his "gift" from Silent Shichirobei.

He utterly wiped out Yagyu Gunbei and Asaemon the Decapitator, killed off virtually the entire Kurokawa group, and escaped dosa-go-yo.

I can't wait until Itto fights Retsudo.

We all know that Retsudo's Shin'in sword is no match for Itto's "throwing the sword away on the first pass" meifumado technique - the move that took out Gunbei, Asaemon, and his toughest opponent thus far, Headless Sakon.

[HuangKaiVun]

Ah, #8 is the Kurokuwa Demolition Derby!

Interesting "origin" of Yagyu Gunbei. Retsudo is one BAD DUDE.

[greyseal]

Lone Wolf and Cub is very cool. I read the original english translations back inthe 80's. Anyone out there ever read Blade of the Immortal? It's about a ronin who had these 'bloodworms' in him that keep him alive no matter what kind of injury he sustains. His curse,i.e., the worms, will only disappear after he has slain 1,000 evil men. It's pretty wild. I think it's also published by dark horse.

[HuangKaiVun]

"Blade of the Immortal" is too psychotic and rambling for me.

The Yagyu are getting cut down bit by bit, and they're coming out more and more. Doubtless this was Ogami Itto's intention.

Actually the one guy that would've killed Ogami Itto was Genishichi Gobo, master of the "Sajinrai" (Book 4).

Too bad his father cut him down right before he was going to take Itto's head.

[Black_Talon]

Oh man I got to get those I love anything dealing with Samurai!

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[Black_Talon]

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[edziak]

There are so many good stories in this series. Winter Flower, the one about the betrayed samurai's wife is beautiful. I also like the Soldier is the Castle because of its significance. You can realy see that Ogami longs to serve as a samurai again in this story. Suio School Zanbato in book one is also a cool story.

[GeneChing]

Looks like Darren Aronofsky is going to take on Shogun Assassin - check it out (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367983/)

[thalan]

There are 28 books in the Lone Wolf and Cub series. I've managed to pick up all of them and it is fantastic from beginning to end. Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima also have another series that dark horse has just started publishing called Samurai Executioner, based on Yamato Asaemon (Decapitator Asa) there have been four books released so far.

[jethro]

from the director of some of my favorite movies ever like Supermarket Sweep and Requiem For a Dream, Darren Aronofsky will be the director/write of this.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367983/

Now tell me, how bad is it gonna be?

[Su Lin]

Please tell me it isnt so Jethro!:eek:

[GeneChing]

Justin Lin directing? Intriguing...

Kamala Flms Acquires ‘Lone Wolf And Cub’ With ‘Fast Five’s Justin Lin Attached (http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/kamala-flms-acquires-lone-wolf-and-cub-with-fast-fives-justin-lin-attached/)
By MIKE FLEMING | Tuesday March 27, 2012 @ 5:01pm EDT

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EXCLUSIVE: Kamala Films has acquired film rights to the Kazuo Koike-created 1970s Japanese manga Lone Wolf and Cub, attaching David & Janet Peoples to write the script. Fast Five‘s Justin Lin had already been attached to direct. Kamala’s Marissa McMahon will produce with 1212 Entertainment’s Elizabeth Grave and Joshua Long, with Roberto Grande exec producing.

The original was set feudal Edo period, and chronicles the story of Ogami Itto, the Shogun’s elite executioner. In an attempt to take his position, the rival Yagyu clan falsely accuses Itto of a crime and murders his wife. Disgraced, Itto is forced to wander Japan with his three-year-old son Daigoro as an assassin for hire, earning the title “Lone Wolf and Cub.” Ultimately, Itto and Daigoro seek revenge on the Yagyu clan. Koike’s manga, published in the United States by Dark Horse Comics, is considered a seminal work.

The film marks the first collaboration between Kamala Films and 1212 Entertainment. Kamala is currently in development on Jeff Guinn’s Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde with Furst Films, and the screen adaptation of the Curtis Sittenfeld novel American Wife with Red Crown. 1212 is producing an adaptation of the Taito video game Space Invaders.

The scribes have storied credits including Blade Runner, Unforgiven and Twelve Monkeys, while Lin is working on Universal’s sixth installment of The Fast and the Furious. “I’ve long admired the Peoples and their enduring body of work,” Lin said. “They’re a wonderful match for Lone Wolf and Cub and I’m really looking forward to collaborating with them on this powerful, epic tale.” CAA reps the writers and Lin and the helmer’s also repped by Cinetic and Sloss Eckhouse LawCo.

[Hebrew Hammer]

More Linsanity??? That guy is everywhere.

[GeneChing]

Iconic Manga ‘Wolf and Cub’ Set for Live-Action Remake by SP International (EXCLUSIVE) (http://variety.com/2016/film/asia/manga-wolf-and-cub-set-for-remake-1201804811/)
Patrick Frater
Asia Bureau Chief

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Iconic Manga 'Wolf and Cub' SetCOURTESY OF KOIKE KAZUO GEKIGA SONJUKU
JUNE 27, 2016 | 08:31PM PT

Iconic Japanese comic book property “Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict” is to be made as a live action, English language movie by producer Steven Paul’s SP International Pictures.

The company acquired remake and sequel rights Koike Kazuo Gekiga Sonjuku, Inc., who produced the motion picture “Kozure Okami: Sono Chisaki Te Ni” in 1993. It plans a remake that will shoot from 2017. The “Lone Wolf and Cub” property first emerged in 1970 as a comic book written by Koike Kazuo and illustrated by Goseki Kojima. Their stories were subsequently adapted as six feature movies starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, four stage plays and a TV series.

“Final Conflict” sees a noble samurai plotted against and framed in an assassination conspiracy the samurai disobeys his Shogun’s orders and becomes an assassin for hire. “I have been a huge fan of the property for many years and can’t tell you how excited I am to have the opportunity to embark on this journey,” Pau said in a statement.

Los Angeles-based Paul has become a major axis between Hollywood and Japan. He previously produced Marvel Comic’s “Ghost Rider 1 & 2” and Namco Bandai’s “Tekken 1 & 2.” He is currently producing a live action adaptation of the manga comic “Ghost In The Shell” starring Scarlett Johansson and Takeshi Kitano. Paramount Pictures distributing the feature film worldwide.

Paul’s “Ghost in the Shell” project has been criticized by some fans for racially inappropriate casting, notably with Johansson playing an originally Asian woman. Paul told Variety that “Final Conflict” will be shot with an essentially Japanese cast. Paul has recently struck production deals in both China and Thailand.

His related SP Releasing is a theatrical distributor releasing up to 10 movies per year and maintains a worldwide home entertainment deal with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. This summer SP Releasing will be theatrically distributing “Running Wild” starring Sharon Stone, and releasing ‘The Dog Lover” with James Remar, Lea Thompson, Jayson Blair, Allison Paige and directed by Alex Ranarivelo.

They need to remake Hanzo the Razor. ;)

[sanjuro_ronin]

Sweet.
I hope they get a good swordsman for this and that they keep the originals "fight mode" instead of going 'wire-fu" or something like that.
I don't think they can even begin to touch the story from the comics ( Yagyu clan VS Itto) so it appears they will go with the english version of the story from the movie Shogun Assassin.

[GeneChing]

Justin Lin...interesting. I hope he doesn't default to digital blood. What made Shogun Assassin glorious was that blood wasn't digital.


OCTOBER 17, 2017 10:20am PT by Aaron Couch, Borys Kit
'Seven' Writer Andrew Kevin Walker Tackling 'Lone Wolf and Cub' for Paramount (Exclusive) (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lone-wolf-cub-movie-remake-coming-paramount-1048107)

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Courtesy of Dark Horse Comics

Justin Lin is producing the adaptation of the acclaimed manga and intends to direct.

Paramount has landed the adaptation of the seminal manga Lone Wolf and Cub, and now has Andrew Kevin Walker on board to write the script.

Justin Lin, who directed several of the Fast and Furious movies, and his Perfect Storm banner are producing the project along with Marissa McMahon and Kamala Films. Lin, who has been associated with Cub since around 2012, is also looking to direct the feature.

Lone Wolf and Cub was created by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima, who began publishing the manga series in Japan in 1970. The revenge story was epic in execution (it was close to 9,000 pages by the time it was done), acclaimed for its storytelling and its historical accuracy. It was influential in Japanese pop culture, spawning movies, a television series and even plays. The comics first began publishing in the US in the late 1980s.

The story told of a shogun’s executioner named Itto Ogami, who starts on a path of revenge after his wife and the rest of his house is murdered, leaving only his infant son alive. Itto is joined on this quest by his son, Daigoro, who, as he grows up, is trained to be a fearsome warrior and joins him as a father-son team of assassins for hire as they travel the country and seek vengeance against the clan that killed their family.

The project has been at Paramount on-and-off since 2003 and at one point even had Darren Aronofsky attached to direct.

Walker rose to prominence in 1995 thanks to his script for David Fincher's acclaimed crime thriller Seven, which starred Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman as two detectives hunting down a deranged killer who modeled his kills off of the seven deadly sins.

He went on to pen scripts for 8MM as well as Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, which starred Johnny Depp in the retelling of the American fable. He also penned 2010's remake of The Wolfman that starred Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins.

Walker's 2016 animated comedy Nerdland, starring Paul Rudd and Patton Oswalt, drew upon his early days in Hollywood trying to make it as a screenwriter.

He is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Ziffren Brittenham.

[GeneChing]

Lone Wolf & Cub Manga Creator Kazuo Koike Passes Away (https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-04-19/lone-wolf-and-cub-manga-creator-kazuo-koike-passes-away/.145900)
posted on 2019-04-19 00:05 EDT by Crystalyn Hodgkins

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82-year-old prolific storywriter passed away on Wednesday due to pneumonia

The Twitter account for prolific manga creator Kazuo Koike announced on Friday that he passed away from pneumonia on Wednesday. He was 82.

The Twitter post stated that he had already been hospitalized and was under medical care when he passed away. The post thanked everyone who loved Koike and his works throughout his life, and stated that as was his dying wish, his funeral service will be for relatives only.

On Wednesday, Koike posted on Twitter that he and Lupin III creator Monkey Punch were rivals 40 years ago in the Weekly Manga Action magazine when Lupin III and Koike's Lone Wolf and Cub manga were running. Koike also said that he would miss him. Monkey Punch, whose real name is Kazuhiko Katō, passed away on April 11 at 81 years old, also from pneumonia. Koike (under his pen name Keigo Ozuka) and Monkey Punch collaborated as the writer and artist, respectively, on the Secretary Bird manga mini-series in Weekly Manga Action in September 1970.

Koike was born on May 8, 1936 in Akita prefecture. In addition to creating stories for manga, Koike wrote novels; scripts for movies, television, and stage plays; and also wrote song lyrics. In 1972 he founded Studio Ship, which was later renamed as Koike Shoin Corporation. He established the Koike Gekiga Sonjuku training school for budding manga creators in 1977, and also worked as an instructor at the Osaka University of Arts starting in 2000.

Koike is perhaps most well known for his and Goseki Kojima's Lone Wolf and Cub samurai manga. First Comics premiered the manga in English in May 1987. The series was one of the first manga published in North America, and the first manga to be released in North America on a monthly schedule. Dark Horse Comics began releasing the series in 2000 as the first manga series to be published in North America straight to graphic novels that corresponded with the Japanese releases. In 2013, Dark Horse began releasing the series in omnibus format.

The manga inspired six feature movies starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, four stage plays, and a television series. As of October 2017, Paramount had the rights to a separate English-language live-action film adaptation of the manga.

Some of Koike's other manga include Samurai Executioner, Crying Freeman, Lady Snowblood, Mad Bull 34, Mad Bull 2000, and New Lone Wolf & Cub. Many of his manga inspired live-action and anime adaptations. He also worked on the Golgo 13 manga's story along with others. Koike and Miki Fujita more recently ended their Koike Kazuo no Manga Juku manga in Akita Shoten's Champion RED magazine in March 2018.

Sources: Kazuo Koike's Twitter account (https://twitter.com/koikekazuo/status/1119061843933192192), Comic Natalie

What a legendary artist. Today I mourn.

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