Is Harakiri actually good?

Harakiri sits in the 92.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 92.3% of them.

How does Harakiri compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, Harakiri lands in the 90.1% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Harakiri's score based on?

260 calibrated reviewers stand behind Harakiri's score.

1962

global pct

92.3

Film · 1962 · Films · 1960s

Harakiri

Name: Harakiri
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Released: 1962

Scored from 260 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

92.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

90.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

99.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

260 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In feudal Japan, an aging ronin arrives at the gates of a powerful feudal clan and requests permission to commit ritual suicide on their grounds. As the clan's officials recount the story of a previous ronin who made the same request, the visitor reveals his own connection to past events, exposing the cruelty and hollow honor of the samurai code.

Harakiri (1962) is a film IMDb files under the drama and mystery genres.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 381 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 260 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 284 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.