Film · 2025 · Films · 2020s
Kokuho
Scored from 29 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Adapted from Shūichi Yoshida's novel, Lee Sang-il's Japanese drama opens in 1960s Nagasaki, where teenage Kikuo Tachibana sees his yakuza father cut down in a rival gang's attack. Taken in by the Osaka kabuki actor Hanjirō Hanai, he is trained as an onnagata — a male performer of female roles — alongside Hanai's son Shunsuke, and the two grow up as brothers competing for the same parts in an art form that normally passes down by bloodline. From there the film follows Kikuo across roughly half a century of performances, patronage and setbacks as an outsider inside a hereditary tradition. Ryo Yoshizawa stars, with Ken Watanabe as his adoptive master.
Kokuho (2025) is a film IMDb files under the drama genre. It runs 2h 55m. It was made in Japan. It plays in Japanese.
Only 29 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 30 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 33 of whom clear the calibration test.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Kokuho lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2020s (7,930 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 29.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
