What is Ikiru's IQ Score?

Ikiru has an IQ Score of 185/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 46/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 48/50 Educational Value, and 44/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Ikiru educational?

Ikiru is strong on Educational Value, 48/50 on TVI's rubric, which rates the density and integration of substantive information within the work.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's current published formula is round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers. TVI publishes a three-dimension breakdown only when those values reproduce the displayed composite. The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Ikiru IQ Score 185/200

Name: Ikiru
Genre: drama
Rating: 185
Cast: Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Bokuzen Hidari, Kamatari Fujiwara, Makoto Kobori

Ikiru has an IQ Score of 185/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-08-19·Methodology

drama

185/ 200

Masterclass TVI Essential

Exceptional cognitive and educational substance, delivered with craft that sustains close attention

Ikiru poster, IQ Score 185/200, Masterclass tier on TV Intelligentsia

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4) · How we score →

What these dimensions mean

Cognitive Stimulation: observable narrative complexity, conceptual density, ambiguity, inference, and sustained intellectual demands in the work.
Educational Value: the density and integration of substantive academic, historical, scientific, cultural, ethical, or practical information in the work.
Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.3.1

Formula

round((C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4)

Database scale

2,605 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

Akira Kurosawa →

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TVI Essential · Consensus

Ikiru scores 185/200 on the TVI IQ Score, Masterclass tier. A terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat spends his remaining time building a small park, earning Cultural Impact, Intellectual Substance, and Lasting Significance. TVI Essential is an editorial designation; IQ Score is a content rating, not an intelligence measurement.

The TVI Take

A terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat spends his remaining time building a small park. Kurosawa's most humanist film, a meditation on meaning, institutional inertia, and what it takes to make even one small thing better.

The structure, jumping forward after his death to reconstruct his final months through witnesses, demands active interpretation.

People & Production Akira Kurosawa · Toho · Japan 23 connections