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Spring in a Small Town

1948 · 94 min · Director: Fei Mu ★ IMDb 7.3 · 3,779 ratings

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A married couple living in a desolate small town in post-WWII China are paid a surprise visit by an old friend of the husband's.

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Spring in a Small Town (1948) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Melancholy 35%, Love 25%, Anxiety 15%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Melancholy, Love, Anxiety. Genres: Drama, Romance. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Melancholy, Love and Anxiety. Its IMDb rating of 7.3/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 70/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Sympathy
  • Melancholy
  • Tension

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Dominant emotion: Melancholy

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Love

Dominant emotion: Sympathy

Dominant emotion: Relief

Sympathy
Melancholy
Tension
Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 28 %, then rises around 38 %, then peaks around 88 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensitySympathyMelancholyTension
2.5 %≈ 2′Melancholy66 %53 %65 %23 %
7.5 %≈ 7′Melancholy66 %56 %65 %29 %
12.5 %≈ 12′Melancholy64 %51 %58 %38 %
17.5 %≈ 16′Tension55 %35 %39 %38 %
22.5 %≈ 21′Love46 %25 %26 %29 %
27.5 %≈ 26′Sympathy42 %28 %25 %26 %
32.5 %≈ 31′Love45 %30 %30 %26 %
37.5 %≈ 35′Melancholy56 %40 %45 %36 %
42.5 %≈ 40′Love69 %54 %55 %56 %
47.5 %≈ 45′Tension68 %51 %49 %63 %
52.5 %≈ 49′Tension62 %44 %40 %59 %
57.5 %≈ 54′Tension63 %46 %43 %60 %
62.5 %≈ 59′Tension66 %45 %44 %61 %
67.5 %≈ 63′Love69 %43 %43 %64 %
72.5 %≈ 68′Tension76 %57 %55 %68 %
77.5 %≈ 73′Sympathy78 %73 %64 %63 %
82.5 %≈ 78′Sympathy79 %74 %54 %66 %
87.5 %≈ 82′Tension86 %75 %43 %81 %
92.5 %≈ 87′Sympathy85 %73 %45 %70 %
97.5 %≈ 92′Relief75 %62 %50 %42 %
Cinderella

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

WW
Wei Wei

YS
Yu Shi

YS
Yu Shi

Dai Liyan

LW
Li Wei

CC
Cui Chaoming

ZH
Zhang Hongmei

Details

Directed by
Fei Mu
Written by
Li Tian-Ji
Type
Movies
Released
1948
Runtime
94 min
Country
China
Genres
Drama, Romance
Ratings
★ IMDb 7.3 · 3,779 ratings
Feels mostly
Melancholy
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