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Chikamatsu Monogatari

1954 · 102 min · Director: Kenji Mizoguchi ★ IMDb 8 · 5,537 ratings

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When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.

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Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Sadness 35%, Love 25%, Empathy 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

25%Love
  1. Love25%
  2. Relief10%

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Why it feels this way

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

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Consider this title if you are looking for Sadness, Love and Empathy. Its IMDb rating of 8.0/10 suggests a strong audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 74/100.

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Emotional journey

AI · from subtitles
  • Empathy
  • Tension
  • Love

Not enough subtitle evidence

No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Love

Empathy
Tension
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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 3 %, then rises around 13 %, then peaks around 98 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityEmpathyTensionLove
2.5 %≈ 3′Not enough subtitle evidence23 %17 %18 %3 %
7.5 %≈ 8′Empathy38 %30 %32 %7 %
12.5 %≈ 13′Tension54 %43 %49 %10 %
17.5 %≈ 18′Tension59 %48 %55 %10 %
22.5 %≈ 23′Tension57 %48 %56 %10 %
27.5 %≈ 28′Tension61 %50 %61 %10 %
32.5 %≈ 33′Tension68 %54 %68 %9 %
37.5 %≈ 38′Tension70 %59 %69 %11 %
42.5 %≈ 43′Sadness65 %55 %63 %15 %
47.5 %≈ 48′Tension56 %40 %55 %12 %
52.5 %≈ 54′Tension57 %40 %57 %9 %
57.5 %≈ 59′Tension73 %59 %70 %28 %
62.5 %≈ 64′Sadness76 %66 %69 %50 %
67.5 %≈ 69′Empathy65 %58 %53 %53 %
72.5 %≈ 74′Love63 %54 %50 %48 %
77.5 %≈ 79′Tension66 %57 %60 %45 %
82.5 %≈ 84′Love71 %65 %69 %48 %
87.5 %≈ 89′Tension78 %71 %74 %55 %
92.5 %≈ 94′Love84 %76 %71 %70 %
97.5 %≈ 99′Sadness88 %82 %65 %78 %
Oedipus

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

KH
Kazuo Hasegawa

YM
Yōko Minamida

CN
Chieko Naniwa

CN
Chieko Naniwa

Okô

IS
Ichirō Sugai

Gembei

TI
Tatsuya Ishiguro

TI
Tatsuya Ishiguro

Isan

HM
Hiroshi Mizuno

HT
Hisao Toake

Morinokoji

IT
Ikkei Tamaki

Jushiro Umegaki

KT
Kimiko Tachibana

Umetatsu Akamatsu

KK
Keiko Koyanagi

Okaya

SN
Sayako Nakagami

Osono

KK
Kanae Kobayashi

Otatsu

SM
Shiro Miura

Worker

NT
Nobuko Tanei

Young Girl

SS
Sōji Shibata

Worker

SM
Satoshi Mikami

Worker

Details

Directed by
Kenji Mizoguchi
Written by
Yoshikata Yoda, Matsutarō Kawaguchi
Type
Movies
Released
1954
Runtime
102 min
Country
Japan
Genres
Drama, Romance
Ratings
★ IMDb 8 · 5,537 ratings
Feels mostly
Sadness
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