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Red Beard

1965 · directed by Akira Kurosawa · 185 min
23,686 feet · Prominence
1,032nd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw39

Lifetime worldwide gross $1m, re-releases included; about $12m in 2026 money.

Rank6,799 of 11,051In 196529 of 33

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise82

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics82 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy55

Judged directly: Criterion Kurosawa, revered, low traffic.

Verdict55 of 100IMDb8.3 from 23kWikipedia5k views a monthAge61 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 843 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 39 praise 82 legacy 55averages 59, placing it at23,686 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Toshirō Mifune19,799 ftTsutomu Yamazaki18,148 ft