Ken (1964)

1964 Japanese film directed by Kenji Misumi

Released

1964

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Genre

Martial arts film

Director

Kenji Misumi

Producer

Hiroaki Fujii

Starring

Ichikawa Raizō VIII, Hisaya Morishige, Noriko Sengoku, Keiju Kobayashi, Yoshio Inaba

Running time

94 minutes

Distributor

Daiei Film

Based on

Sword

Ken (Japanese: 剣), also known as The Sword, is a 1964 Japanese film directed by Kenji Misumi. The film's screenplay was written by Kazuro Funabashi, based upon the short story of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

More films directed by Kenji Misumi

• Gonpachi 1956
• Freelance Samurai 1957
• Travels of Lord Mito 1958
• The Tale of Zatoichi 1962
• On the Road Forever 1964
• Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Adventure 1964
• Sword Devil 1965
• Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Fire 1965
• The Magoichi Saga 1969
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades 1972
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx 1972
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance 1972
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons 1973
• Shogun Assassin 1980

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• TMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q6387210 (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.