In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.

K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
2008

Golden Kamuy
2024

X-Cross
2007

Nate and Hayes
1983

One Piece: Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals
2002

K: Missing Kings
2014

Zatoichi's Vengeance
1966

One Piece: Dead End Adventure
2003

The 355
2022

Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit
2010