{"id":720221,"date":"2026-04-07T09:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/kunio-kun-and-double-dragon-creator-yoshihisa-kishimoto-dies-at-age-64\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:20:14","slug":"kunio-kun-and-double-dragon-creator-yoshihisa-kishimoto-dies-at-age-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/kunio-kun-and-double-dragon-creator-yoshihisa-kishimoto-dies-at-age-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Kunio-kun and Double Dragon creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto dies at age 64"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Yoshihisa Kishimoto, creator of the <em>Kunio-kun<\/em> and <me>Double Dragon <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>, has died at age 64, his son confirmed on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rpl5t62\/status\/2040679263121330254\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. <span id=\"more-1038560\"\/><\/me><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the son of Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the director of Kunio-kun,\u201d the son replied in a tweet posted by the <em>Kunio-kun<\/em> series\u2019 official account. \u201cI\u2019m sharing this notice to inform you that my father passed away on April 2, 2026. Please feel free to contact me at any time for further details. I deeply <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>reciate all the information shared with <em>Kunio-kun<\/em> fans over the years. Thank you for your continued support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kishimoto began his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> designing career at Data East, where he worked on <em>Cobra Command<\/em> and <em>Road Blaster<\/em>, before moving to Technos Japan, where he created <em>Renegade<\/em> (<em>Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun<\/em>) and <em>Double Dragon<\/em>. In recent years, he served as director on <em>Double Dragon IV<\/em>, as well as a collaborative director on <em>Stay Cool, Kobayashi-san!: A River City Ransom Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Game <\/a><\/span>category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2026\/04\/kunio-kun-and-double-dragon-creator-yoshihisa-kishimoto-dies-at-age-64\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoshihisa Kishimoto, creator of the Kunio-kun and Double Dragon series, has died at age 64, his son confirmed on Twitter. \u201cThis is the son of Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the director of Kunio-kun,\u201d the son replied in a tweet posted by the Kunio-kun series\u2019 official account. \u201cI\u2019m sharing this notice to inform you that my father passed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":720222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Yoshihisa-Kishimoto-Death_04-06-26.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[161485],"class_list":["post-720221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game","tag-yoshihisa-kishimoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}