Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Quality:

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence - 1983 film by Nagisa Ōshima. This film is the 2151^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films. Article “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 2151^st most popular in films.

Since the creation of article “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 962 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is on the 2151^st place in global ranking of films on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1899 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2613 in December 2020
• Global: #3098 in January 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #28289 in March 2008
• Global: #973 in April 2023

There are 26 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	Chinese (zh) 俘虜 (電影)		63.4183
2	Japanese (ja) 戦場のメリークリスマス		55.3264
3	Greek (el) Καλά Χριστούγεννα, Κύριε Λώρενς		51.3764
4	German (de) Furyo – Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence		46.6561
5	English (en) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence		43.6719
6	French (fr) Furyo		32.3078
7	Catalan (ca) Bon Nadal, Mr. Lawrence		26.9195
8	Arabic (ar) عيد ميلاد مجيد سيد لورانس		25.0992
9	Hebrew (he) חג שמח, מיסטר לורנס		24.9197
10	Ukrainian (uk) Щасливого Різдва, містере Лоуренс		24.8475

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 戦場のメリークリスマス		4 982 396
2	English (en) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence		3 140 460
3	Chinese (zh) 俘虜 (電影)		797 151
4	French (fr) Furyo		568 440
5	Italian (it) Furyo		403 061
6	German (de) Furyo – Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence		262 630
7	Russian (ru) Счастливого Рождества, мистер Лоуренс		197 065
8	Spanish (es) Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence		196 497
9	Dutch (nl) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence		70 453
10	Portuguese (pt) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence		51 916

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) 戦場のメリークリスマス		15 071
2	English (en) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence		14 210
3	Chinese (zh) 俘虜 (電影)		6 094
4	French (fr) Furyo		1 655
5	Italian (it) Furyo		1 293
6	Spanish (es) Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence		866
7	Russian (ru) Счастливого Рождества, мистер Лоуренс		819
8	German (de) Furyo – Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence		690
9	Portuguese (pt) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence		149
10	Korean (ko) 전장의 크리스마스		139

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence		237
2	Japanese (ja) 戦場のメリークリスマス		138
3	French (fr) Furyo		132
4	Italian (it) Furyo		76
5	German (de) Furyo – Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence		72
6	Chinese (zh) 俘虜 (電影)		49
7	Russian (ru) Счастливого Рождества, мистер Лоуренс		46
8	Hebrew (he) חג שמח, מיסטר לורנס		29
9	Spanish (es) Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence		26
10	Dutch (nl) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence		25

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) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence		1
2	Italian (it) Furyo		1
3	Arabic (ar) عيد ميلاد مجيد سيد لورانس		0
4	Catalan (ca) Bon Nadal, Mr. Lawrence		0
5	Danish (da) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence		0
6	German (de) Furyo – Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence		0
7	Greek (el) Καλά Χριστούγεννα, Κύριε Λώρενς		0
8	Spanish (es) Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence		0
9	Basque (eu) Senjō no Merī Kurisumasu		0
10	Persian (fa) کریسمس مبارک، آقای لارنس		0

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

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