What is Shoplifters's IQ Score?

Shoplifters has an IQ Score of 178/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 46/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 41/50 Educational Value, and 47/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Shoplifters educational?

Shoplifters is strong on educational value, 41/50 on TVI's rubric, which covers academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.

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/.

Shoplifters , IQ Score 178/200

Name: Shoplifters
Genre: drama
Rating: 178
Cast: Lily Franky, Sakura Andō, Mayu Matsuoka, Sosuke Ikematsu, Naoto Ogata

Shoplifters has an IQ Score of 178/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-07-24·Methodology

drama

178/ 200

Masterclass TVI Essential

Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity

Shoplifters poster, IQ Score 178/200, Masterclass tier on TV Intelligentsia

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

Cinematic Score/50

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

What these dimensions mean

Cognitive Stimulation: how much the title demands of your mind, its structural complexity, ideas, and sustained intellectual engagement.
Educational Value: what you take away, across academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.
Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.
Cinematic Score: composition quality, emotional impact, and how the music integrates with the work. Does not affect the IQ Score.

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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

Formula

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

Database scale

2,587 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

Hirokazu Kore-eda →

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TVI Essential · Consensus

Shoplifters scores 178/200 on the TVI IQ Score, placing it in the Masterclass tier. 2018 Palme d'Or winner. Hirokazu Kore-eda's masterpiece about a Tokyo family of petty thieves whose bonds of choice prove stronger than blood, 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

2018 Palme d'Or winner. Hirokazu Kore-eda's masterpiece about a Tokyo family of petty thieves whose bonds of choice prove stronger than blood.

Exceptional cognitive demands from the slow revelation of each character's backstory and the moral ambiguity of their chosen family. High educational value from the portrait of Japanese poverty and social invisibility. Quietly devastating.

People & Production Hirokazu Koreeda · Japan 23 connections