The Hidden Blade

The Hidden Blade - 2004 film by Yōji Yamada. Article “The Hidden Blade” in English Wikipedia has 20.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 6 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is Japanese.

In June 2025 the article “The Hidden Blade” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Hidden Blade”, its content was written by 49 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 221 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 100 times in English Wikipedia and cited 414 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #94991 in October 2006
• Global: #80864 in August 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #130962 in December 2009
• Global: #23233 in February 2009

There are 11 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) The Hidden Blade		20.5275
2	French (fr) La Servante et le Samouraï		20.0701
3	Persian (fa) شمشیر پنهان		19.7197
4	German (de) The Hidden Blade		12.6796
5	Vietnamese (vi) Kakushiken Oninotsume		11.2398
6	Hungarian (hu) Rejtett penge		11.0993
7	Russian (ru) Скрытый клинок		10.9917
8	Chinese (zh) 隱劍鬼爪		10.3221
9	Japanese (ja) 隠し剣 鬼の爪		8.3473
10	Italian (it) Kakushi ken: oni no tsume		6.7385

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Hidden Blade" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 隠し剣 鬼の爪		1 056 382
2	English (en) The Hidden Blade		426 548
3	Russian (ru) Скрытый клинок		110 492
4	Chinese (zh) 隱劍鬼爪		49 304
5	German (de) The Hidden Blade		49 092
6	French (fr) La Servante et le Samouraï		23 114
7	Persian (fa) شمشیر پنهان		11 296
8	Hungarian (hu) Rejtett penge		6 068
9	Italian (it) Kakushi ken: oni no tsume		5 169
10	Korean (ko) 숨겨진 검, 오니노츠메		3 040

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Hidden Blade" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 隠し剣 鬼の爪		2 412
2	English (en) The Hidden Blade		1 114
3	Russian (ru) Скрытый клинок		329
4	Chinese (zh) 隱劍鬼爪		211
5	French (fr) La Servante et le Samouraï		98
6	German (de) The Hidden Blade		94
7	Italian (it) Kakushi ken: oni no tsume		72
8	Hungarian (hu) Rejtett penge		65
9	Persian (fa) شمشیر پنهان		52
10	Korean (ko) 숨겨진 검, 오니노츠메		45

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "The Hidden Blade" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 隠し剣 鬼の爪		56
2	English (en) The Hidden Blade		49
3	French (fr) La Servante et le Samouraï		38
4	Russian (ru) Скрытый клинок		20
5	German (de) The Hidden Blade		13
6	Italian (it) Kakushi ken: oni no tsume		13
7	Chinese (zh) 隱劍鬼爪		12
8	Hungarian (hu) Rejtett penge		8
9	Vietnamese (vi) Kakushiken Oninotsume		8
10	Persian (fa) شمشیر پنهان		3

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "The Hidden Blade" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Hidden Blade		1
2	Italian (it) Kakushi ken: oni no tsume		1
3	German (de) The Hidden Blade		0
4	Persian (fa) شمشیر پنهان		0
5	French (fr) La Servante et le Samouraï		0
6	Hungarian (hu) Rejtett penge		0
7	Japanese (ja) 隠し剣 鬼の爪		0
8	Korean (ko) 숨겨진 검, 오니노츠메		0
9	Russian (ru) Скрытый клинок		0
10	Vietnamese (vi) Kakushiken Oninotsume		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "The Hidden Blade" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 隠し剣 鬼の爪		131
2	English (en) The Hidden Blade		100
3	Russian (ru) Скрытый клинок		65
4	French (fr) La Servante et le Samouraï		42
5	German (de) The Hidden Blade		25
6	Chinese (zh) 隱劍鬼爪		22
7	Italian (it) Kakushi ken: oni no tsume		11
8	Persian (fa) شمشیر پنهان		7
9	Hungarian (hu) Rejtett penge		6
10	Korean (ko) 숨겨진 검, 오니노츠메		3

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#	Language	Value
de	German The Hidden Blade
en	English The Hidden Blade
fa	Persian شمشیر پنهان
fr	French La Servante et le Samouraï
hu	Hungarian Rejtett penge
it	Italian Kakushi ken: oni no tsume
ja	Japanese 隠し剣 鬼の爪
ko	Korean 숨겨진 검, 오니노츠메
ru	Russian Скрытый клинок
vi	Vietnamese Kakushiken Oninotsume
zh	Chinese 隱劍鬼爪

Best Rank

English: #130962 12.2009

Global: #23233 02.2009

Best Rank

English: #94991 10.2006

Global: #80864 08.2022

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