The Lightning Sword
1962, Japanese. Directed by Bin Katō.
Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn to kill. On the road he’ll find his sister and test his blade against his bitter enemy. He also encounters a lost boy searching for his father, a boy he will swear to protect, and find his own lost love, a daughter of the yakuza who draws him into a frenzied and bloody battle between rival yakuza gangs for the control of a frightened town.
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
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- Released
- 8 December 1962
- Original title
- 抜打ち鴉
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Minoru Inuzuka, Teinosuke Kinugasa
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The Lightning Sword runs 72 minutes (1h 12m).
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The Lightning Sword isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 8 December 1962. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Lightning Sword?
The Lightning Sword (1962) was directed by Bin Katō and stars Tomisaburō Wakayama, Shigeru Amachi, Ryūzō Shimada.