Takeshi Kitano

Quality:

Takeshi Kitano - Japanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter and video game designer (born 1947). This person is the 2003^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Takeshi Kitano” in Malay Wikipedia has 56.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 13 references and 13 sections.

This article has the best quality in Japanese Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Malay) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6807^th most popular in all topics.

The 8731^st most popular in AI.

The 2003^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6225^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Takeshi Kitano”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Malay Wikipedia and edited by 2746 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8731^st place).

Takeshi Kitano is on the 2003^rd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 9 times in Malay Wikipedia and cited 9133 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Malay): #7508 in August 2025
• Global: #440 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Malay): #43483 in August 2025
• Global: #475 in December 2012

There are 45 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Japanese (ja) ビートたけし		68.3139
2	English (en) Takeshi Kitano		65.9839
3	Italian (it) Takeshi Kitano		57.3814
4	Malay (ms) Takeshi Kitano		56.5407
5	French (fr) Takeshi Kitano		54.2758
6	Thai (th) ทาเกชิ คิตาโนะ		44.8369
7	Spanish (es) Takeshi Kitano		38.4878
8	Catalan (ca) Takeshi Kitano		38.4839
9	Russian (ru) Китано, Такэси		35.6594
10	German (de) Takeshi Kitano		34.5037

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) ビートたけし		20 996 835
2	English (en) Takeshi Kitano		6 097 457
3	Russian (ru) Китано, Такэси		2 439 886
4	Chinese (zh) 北野武		1 465 976
5	French (fr) Takeshi Kitano		1 450 536
6	Italian (it) Takeshi Kitano		1 159 691
7	German (de) Takeshi Kitano		804 959
8	Spanish (es) Takeshi Kitano		774 243
9	Korean (ko) 기타노 다케시		113 495
10	Polish (pl) Takeshi Kitano		90 989

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) ビートたけし		85 369
2	English (en) Takeshi Kitano		23 953
3	Russian (ru) Китано, Такэси		7 009
4	Chinese (zh) 北野武		5 921
5	French (fr) Takeshi Kitano		5 467
6	Italian (it) Takeshi Kitano		3 662
7	German (de) Takeshi Kitano		2 192
8	Spanish (es) Takeshi Kitano		1 294
9	Korean (ko) 기타노 다케시		479
10	Polish (pl) Takeshi Kitano		246

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) ビートたけし		832
2	English (en) Takeshi Kitano		389
3	French (fr) Takeshi Kitano		212
4	Italian (it) Takeshi Kitano		177
5	German (de) Takeshi Kitano		155
6	Russian (ru) Китано, Такэси		140
7	Chinese (zh) 北野武		109
8	Spanish (es) Takeshi Kitano		77
9	Dutch (nl) Takeshi Kitano		54
10	Korean (ko) 기타노 다케시		48

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) ビートたけし		3
2	Italian (it) Takeshi Kitano		2
3	Arabic (ar) تاكيشي كيتانو		1
4	Catalan (ca) Takeshi Kitano		1
5	Spanish (es) Takeshi Kitano		1
6	French (fr) Takeshi Kitano		1
7	Russian (ru) Китано, Такэси		1
8	Swedish (sv) Takeshi Kitano		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Takeşi Kitano		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Такеши Китано		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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