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Floating Clouds

1955 · 123 min · Director: Mikio Naruse ★ IMDb 7.6 · 3,727 ratings

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A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

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Floating Clouds (1955) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Melancholy 40%, Sadness 25%, Love 15%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Love15%

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Why it feels this way

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

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Consider this title if you are looking for Melancholy, Sadness and Love. Its IMDb rating of 7.6/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 73/100.

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Emotional journey

AI · from subtitles
  • Sadness
  • Empathy
  • Tension

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No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Nostalgia

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Sadness
Empathy
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. Not enough subtitle evidence
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 3 %, then rises around 13 %, then peaks around 93 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensitySadnessEmpathyTension
2.5 %≈ 3′Tension25 %14 %16 %21 %
7.5 %≈ 9′Sadness37 %28 %30 %30 %
12.5 %≈ 15′Sadness57 %49 %51 %43 %
17.5 %≈ 22′Sadness63 %55 %57 %43 %
22.5 %≈ 28′Sadness57 %51 %50 %39 %
27.5 %≈ 34′Sadness56 %49 %44 %42 %
32.5 %≈ 40′Nostalgia51 %42 %39 %35 %
37.5 %≈ 46′Nostalgia42 %34 %33 %26 %
42.5 %≈ 52′Sadness45 %38 %36 %35 %
47.5 %≈ 58′Sadness57 %51 %48 %47 %
52.5 %≈ 65′Sadness66 %55 %55 %53 %
57.5 %≈ 71′Tension70 %54 %54 %60 %
62.5 %≈ 77′Sadness73 %63 %59 %57 %
67.5 %≈ 83′Sadness73 %68 %61 %48 %
72.5 %≈ 89′Sadness67 %61 %55 %49 %
77.5 %≈ 95′Sadness62 %53 %52 %51 %
82.5 %≈ 101′Tension64 %49 %56 %54 %
87.5 %≈ 108′Empathy72 %56 %66 %61 %
92.5 %≈ 114′Sadness78 %67 %74 %64 %
97.5 %≈ 120′Not enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidence
Riches to rags

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

HT
Hideko Takamine

MO
Mariko Okada

Sei Mukai

IY
Isao Yamagata

IY
Isao Yamagata

Sugio Iba

CN
Chieko Nakakita

MM
Mayuri Mokushô

MM
Mayuri Mokushô

FM
Fuyuki Murakami

HŌ
Heihachirō Ōkawa

HŌ
Heihachirō Ōkawa

RJ
Roy James

KH
Kan Hayashi

AT
Akira Tani

SO
Seijirô Onda

KM
Keiko Môri

TM
Tsuruko Mano

KO
Kumeko Otowa

TM
Teruko Mita

TN
Toshiko Nakano

Details

Directed by
Mikio Naruse
Written by
Fumiko Hayashi, Yōko Mizuki
Type
Movies
Released
1955
Runtime
123 min
Country
Japan
Genres
Drama, Romance
Ratings
★ IMDb 7.6 · 3,727 ratings
Feels mostly
Melancholy
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