Akira Kurosawa

Quality:

Akira Kurosawa - Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998). This person is the 1917^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Akira Kurosawa” in Simple English Wikipedia has 28.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Japanese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6622^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6651^st most popular in all topics.

The 3650^th most popular in AI.

The 1917^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5073^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4965^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6344^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Akira Kurosawa” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5073^rd place) and written by 26 authors in all languages (6344^th place).

Since the creation of article “Akira Kurosawa”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6622^nd place) and edited by 4097 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3650^th place).

Akira Kurosawa is on the 1917^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 87 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16883 times in all languages (9891^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #478 in January 2013
• Global: #263 in March 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3101 in July 2022
• Global: #142 in March 2010

There are 55 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, 2025 (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) 黒澤明		100
2	French (fr) Akira Kurosawa		99.3325
3	English (en) Akira Kurosawa		97.9213
4	Esperanto (eo) Kurosawa Akira		96.1905
5	Vietnamese (vi) Kurosawa Akira		92.4889
6	Spanish (es) Akira Kurosawa		91.5279
7	Portuguese (pt) Akira Kurosawa		88.1091
8	Turkish (tr) Akira Kurosava		76.9134
9	Bulgarian (bg) Акира Куросава		69.3672
10	Basque (eu) Akira Kurosawa		66.3853

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Akira Kurosawa		13 561 982
2	Japanese (ja) 黒澤明		6 461 889
3	Russian (ru) Куросава, Акира		2 311 425
4	Spanish (es) Akira Kurosawa		2 053 840
5	Italian (it) Akira Kurosawa		1 957 281
6	French (fr) Akira Kurosawa		1 688 213
7	Chinese (zh) 黑澤明		1 257 998
8	German (de) Akira Kurosawa		995 518
9	Polish (pl) Akira Kurosawa		683 255
10	Portuguese (pt) Akira Kurosawa		674 068

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Akira Kurosawa		75 173
2	Japanese (ja) 黒澤明		27 206
3	Russian (ru) Куросава, Акира		26 393
4	French (fr) Akira Kurosawa		7 621
5	Italian (it) Akira Kurosawa		6 721
6	Spanish (es) Akira Kurosawa		6 056
7	Chinese (zh) 黑澤明		6 043
8	German (de) Akira Kurosawa		3 736
9	Portuguese (pt) Akira Kurosawa		2 707
10	Persian (fa) آکیرا کوروساوا		2 452

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Akira Kurosawa		764
2	Japanese (ja) 黒澤明		352
3	French (fr) Akira Kurosawa		311
4	German (de) Akira Kurosawa		206
5	Italian (it) Akira Kurosawa		189
6	Russian (ru) Куросава, Акира		175
7	Dutch (nl) Akira Kurosawa		112
8	Chinese (zh) 黑澤明		109
9	Spanish (es) Akira Kurosawa		107
10	Polish (pl) Akira Kurosawa		95

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	English (en) Akira Kurosawa		5
2	Japanese (ja) 黒澤明		3
3	Catalan (ca) Akira Kurosawa		2
4	Czech (cs) Akira Kurosawa		2
5	Hebrew (he) אקירה קורוסאווה		2
6	Russian (ru) Куросава, Акира		2
7	Danish (da) Akira Kurosawa		1
8	German (de) Akira Kurosawa		1
9	Esperanto (eo) Kurosawa Akira		1
10	Galician (gl) Akira Kurosawa		1

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

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