Kagemusha , IQ Score 165/200
Kagemusha has an IQ Score of 165/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.
Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Akira Kurosawa's 1980 epic about a low-class thief impersonating a dying daimyo to protect his clan. The structural commitment to the painterly large-scale battle cinematography (financed in part by George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola advocating for the project) is the catalog's most-visually-ambitious late-career work.
Won the Palme d'Or; subsequently expanded into the canonical late-period Ran.
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