Film · 1967 · Films · 1960s
Samurai Rebellion
Scored from 55 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Isaburo Sasahara is a renowned swordsman in an eighteenth-century Japanese clan who has spent his life submitting, both to a loveless arranged marriage and to whatever his lord commands. When the daimyo banishes his concubine Ichi after she strikes him for taking up with another woman, he orders her married off to Isaburo's son Yogoro; contrary to everyone's expectation, the couple fall genuinely in love and have a daughter. Two years later the succession shifts, Ichi's son by the lord becomes heir, and the castle demands that she be handed back. Masaki Kobayashi's black-and-white jidaigeki stars Toshiro Mifune, with Tatsuya Nakadai as a border-guard swordsman, and sets one household's refusal against the machinery of feudal obedience.
Samurai Rebellion is a 1967 drama film. It runs 2h 1m. It was made in Japan. It plays in Japanese.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 166 of whom clear the calibration test. 1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 55 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 56 reviewers with at least two reviews 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 Samurai Rebellion 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 55.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
