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Enter Kyōshirō Nemuri the Swordman (1963)

1963 film

Released
2 November 1963
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
Genre
Jidaigeki (period dramas)
Director
Tokuzō Tanaka
Screenplay
Seiji Hoshikawa
Music
Taichirō Kosugi
Starring
Ichikawa Raizō VIII, Tamao Nakamura, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Nobu Kawaguchi, Chitose Maki
Based on
Nemuri Kyoshirō

Enter Kyōshirō Nemuri the Swordman (Japanese: 眠狂四郎 殺法帖, Hepburn: Nemuri Kyōshirō Sappōchō) is a 1963 Japanese Jidaigeki film directed by Tokuzō Tanaka. It was adapted from the novel Nemuri Kyōshirō Buraihikai written by Renzaburō Shibata. It is the first film of a classic Japanese samurai film series Nemuri Kyōshirō.

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Facts from Wikidata Q15924151 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.