Film · 1964 · Films · 1960s
Kwaidan
Scored from 105 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Masaki Kobayashi's four-part supernatural anthology dramatises Japanese ghost stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, staged on stylised studio sets under painted skies. In 'The Black Hair,' an impoverished Kyoto samurai abandons his weaver wife for a marriage of advancement. 'The Woman of the Snow' follows the woodcutter Minokichi, spared by a snow spirit on the condition that he never speak of their meeting. 'Hoichi the Earless' concerns a blind biwa player summoned nightly to chant the fall of the Heike clan for an unseen audience, while 'In a Cup of Tea' turns on a samurai attendant who sees a stranger's face reflected in his drink.
Kwaidan (1964) is a film IMDb files under the drama, fantasy and horror genres. Its listed language is Japanese. It runs 2h 45m and carries a Not Rated certificate. It was made in Japan.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 327 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus. 105 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 110 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Kwaidan 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 · 1960s (1,929 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 105.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
