I'm 57. both of my parents died from covid and strokes in the last few months. I have no children. I have no bucket list. My brother died in 2004. I have nothing left but to hang on and wait for something. I have a small garden and 2 little dogs to keep me busy. There isn't ANY music that better defines my existence.

Last year I worked at this coffee shop, it was warm spring evening and the place was empty, my manager was somewhere out and I took my chance. I opened all the windows and blasted this on the speakers. It was magical. Music was flowing down the streets, people living in the nearby buildings opening their windows and letting music in. People were drawn in the coffee shop, they were so happy. It was the most perfect, divine moment of my life. Edit: Wow! I couldn't imagine this would reach so many people. Thank you for all the likes and comments, it brings me the purest joy to know that so many of you experienced what I felt and that my story made you smile or brightened your day. I am very grateful and blessed, wish you all nothing but love. ♡

I'm 47, a single woman, having a midlife crisis, lost much during covid, and am now feeling stagnant in life. This music reminds me life can be a melancholic dance, and can be dancing only in circles, but who says it can't be beautiful? Even if it is sad and melancholic, who says life has to be all happy and all beautiful? As long as I can keep on dancing and am dancing now. Sadness and melancholy are meant to be felt and have beauty of their own, adding multiple spectra of emotions and different experiences to enrich life. Life is perhaps just a circle? We are all going back to where we came from somehow, someday; but as long as I have today and tomorrow, and my time hasn't come yet. The choice to continue dancing is mine to make.

I'm 20, living in Serbia. My best friend was my mom we were really close. She died from cancer in june this year. She teached me to love music and cinema. I finished just now "In the mood for love". She would have loved this movie and this song. Love you mom

isn't nice how strangers just meet up here and talk generally about life with no judgment or anything. In fact, it feels like one of the purest forms of communication.

67 years old and dancing with my shadow. It doesn’t matter how I dance, good or bad, for she dances in time with me and I in time with the mood for love.

Чудесная музыка, слезы льются... Зашёл в комментарии. Они потрясли меня... Мы все телепортированы в этот мир с единственной целью научиться любить и быть любимыми. С самой юности мне знакома это жажда и тоска одновременно по созвучной тебе родственной душе и любви... Даже сейчас, в конце пути, я еще верю, в то, что это возможно на этой планете! Всем слушающим, тоскующим, израненным душам, посылаю свою радость. Пусть любовь струится на вас изо всех измерений. Просто поверьте, вы уникальны, неповторимы, вы очень нужны этому миру! Без вас эта мозайка мироздания уже не будет такой совершенной...

I am 42 and i am out from jaill one year i have clean of drugs 4years and i am with problems with my legs do to drugs i have no parents and i lost my brother who was dear to me and i think this music is my tempo of my life,up and down but courage to us all who are broken and trying to get up.....

This is like dancing a forbidden dance with a stranger who loved you in another life but you have yet to meet again. It tells of a longing I do know but don't know the name of, yet I will keep dancing in the night until I find you again. Dearest stranger, I love you.

The movie In The Mood For Love came out when I was a young medical student in the early 2000s. I loved it so much I bought the DVD (remember them?) and played it over and over. Now I’m a middle aged doctor with all sorts of heavy responsibilities but hearing this song take me back to when I was young and more hopeful. In these 20 years I have loved and lost. I’ve despaired and have felt pain and anguish. I’ve hurt those I loved and been hurt by them as well. This song exposes all those emotions and make them raw again. But I suppose it’s better to feel something rather than nothing.....It’s strangely melancholy yet peaceful.

I live in a small wooden house in the forrest near a waterfall. Listen to this wonderful music is like dancing in between the trees up to the fresh water ❤

I lost my father at age 12. My best friend passed away when we were 19. My mom died from cancer at 59. My ex girlfriend died from a brain tumor at 35 years old. Life can sure have a certain way of testing us. Although I've lost so many loved ones, I just turned 40 years old myself. Yet, I woke up this morning and thanked God for the opportunity to tell you that you're perfect just the way you are and although times get tough and life seems unfair just know that you are loved no matter what.

Can you, dear listeners, imagine how painful to hear this masterpiece while living in Syria ! In mood for Love, Love of the lost ones.

I'm looking outside my window to the snowy streets of Prague, my new home, and am hit hard by melancholy. Such beautiful music.

Whenever I got hurt, disappointed or frustrated, I will revisit this place, listening to the beautiful melody and watching these warm-hearted comments. Again, I will get cured. A place of human love.

I am 70 and listening to this music gives me calm, peace. Sending my Light and Love to all of you, especially those who feel sad.

I'm a lonely person who cannot find any meaning in life, this music somehow tells me I'm not that lonely, I'm understood and some other person on the earth got it. It makes me smile while my eyes are tearing

I'm 17. I have faced loss and sadness but right now, I'm sitting at my student desk, listening to this music and finishing writing my first ever movie script. I just discovered this comment section and I honestly think it is the most fragile and beautiful place of the internet. Reading all these stories from strangers inspired me to share a piece of my own. It's people like you I want to write about and for, thank you for existing and making the world a beautiful place.

22 years old and I've been through more abuse and emotional trauma than most people my age have, and yeah I also survived a 1 in 40 million cancer but lost my leg to it. I am now working for the government to give back to the people and try to make my country a better place for the often forgotten people.

"In the old days, if someone had a secret they didn't want to share... you know what they did? They went up a mountain, found a tree, carved a hole in it, and whispered the secret into the hole. Then they covered it with mud. And leave the secret there forever."

If melancholy had a sound, if longing could speak, if the shoulders you cry on had notations, if strings could hold the weight of pain, if vibrations in the air were sad one day, if the definition of hope and defeat had the same language, it would sound like this piece.

Noone: Can you mix tragedy, sorrow, pain, longingness with comfort? Umebayashi: Hold my drink.

When you can’t describe what you feel this music do it for you….It’s the music of someone who didn’t choose loneliness but loneliness choose him.

Music really unites. How many people with pure hearts and different nationalities gathered here to inspire and say comforting words to each other. Great music. Bravo!

Thanx for the extended version, because I need more than 3 minutes for my crying session.

My country have started a war. It's so sad how many people are suffering now. But yet you're not alone, you've got yourself. Take this moment to love all you've got. Please take care❤

Here is my story: My best friend and I used to listen to this very thing all the time. We loved these paintings so much that we searched for it. Printed it and got it framed in our little hangout. We were psyched that day. It was a beautiful day when we put up those frames on the wall. We planned to decorate our walls further. But he lost his life tragically almost 2 years ago and this is the first time I have gathered the courage to listen to this tune again. My life has been a hell without him by my side. I have been terribly lonely. Even as i type this i am sitting all alone on a rainy night. I plan to use this tune for one my videos and upload it on you tube as a homage to our friendship. There is nothing but immersing myself in music and work now for me. Thats what life is all about for me now. I love you all. Thank you for sharing your sorrows here. I feel less lonely now.

Nostalgia is a Greek word. From "Nostos" (missing) and "Algos" (pain). Oh, my beautiful mother language.. and then this divine piece of music that couldn't describe better this painful feeling of missing someone or somebody.. Like the child yearning for his mother's chest, the once-beloved without his mate, the refugee tore apart from his homeland, the old lady remembering her long-gone youth, the lonely passenger standing at the bus station, the unforgiven and the unforgotten.. Again and again. In the darkest of times, remember that we, people, have more similarities than differences, no matter what conflicts our governments lead us to, we are all the same, we feel the same, same dreams, same fears, same pains, same hopes. Stay strong - keep safe learn to love and pray to be loved Greetings from Thessaloniki

It seems as if this comment section is something like the modern tree into which people whisper their secrets

If you too feel moved, sad, melancholy with memories of love and pain that life brings, and yet a smile caresses your lips, your eyes twinkle at yet the world so wide and vivid, you are a friend who I might never meet, but in spirit we are friends; forever! 🙏🏾🙂🇮🇳

I am 25 years old, I lost everything my self,my job, my friends, my money, my dreams. I feel alone and destroyed, people ruined my life but I still have believe that my god is always with me.

“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”

I'm a translator. And now while listening to this masterpiece I finished my first novel translation. Welcome to Uzbek language, Jose Mauro de Vasconselos 💓

Это лучшие комментарии на ютубе, что я читала за все время! Хрупкая музыка , раскрывшая и объединившая души людей! Вы все великолепны!

I just want everyone to be aware that Gao Xingjian is not only a painter--the man is a Nobel Prize-winning playwright and novelist as well, the first Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to a Chinese-language author--truly one of the greats

this song is so beautiful that there are no people fighting in the comments.

how does this song capture every romance I've ever felt?

I have lost everyone I have loved so far, not to death but just life as a force. I am left with my husband and two daughters and I was feeling so scared for my two daughters who have to be alone, on their own. But looking at others messages here, I am reminded life is like that. Its lonely even if you are surrounded by people. You have to walk alone in the end. Walk on fellow people. Keep walking until sweet death takes you to eternity and oblivion. Many are walking, if not with you. So walk on.

I started my day listening to this Beautiful music focusing on miracle and healing rather than pain, my dear husband the love of my life was in coma 6 months and 3 years later still not fully conscious, little daughter who was just born then, and myself pray for miracle every moment… Blessing to all old souls who are expertising pain and loss

What can I say? This music for some reason seems designed as a comforting piece against melancholy and sadness. As I witness my wife, the love of my life slowly being consumed by ALS, I hear this and my sensory memory brings back the hugs and embraces, the feel of a kiss, the memory of a touch, the joy of sharing the smallest of things.

The comment section with hundreds of comments, mostly in English, but by people of different nationalities. I'm just attracted we all unite in music, love, and heartbreak, without having to speak the same language. Languages, races, ethnicities, religions etc. Those barriers all fail when we speak of emotions, or when we are in the mood for love, maybe. This music... It reminds me of the need to break all those barriers for the sake of being in the mood for love, peace, and empathy. Much love (from Turkey) to those who are in the mood for love, or with broken hearts...

Many years, almost a lifetime ago, while in Peru, deep in the Amazonian forest, elderly native women held me under a black starlit sky and sang lullabies in their native tongue, stroking and loving me as if I were a child while I wept. This music has taken me there, to the same sweet healing place and time. The nectar of this melody carries the entire world from the beginning of time, within it.

It's like the solo violinist is "you" and the other strings in the background is everyone around you, as they all conform to society and interact as a community, meanwhile you just hand around with your own thoughts floating aimlessly in your head: no one else bothers about them but you

I wish there was a place I could meet with all the people who have commented on this music for no doubt you are the beautiful people - the sacred ones. If the essence you all hold within you could be projected into the world, all that is bad would cease to be.

The music is perfect... but, I was also amazed by the painting so I decided to google the artist (Gao Xingjian).. a genius Chinese novelist, playwright, and critic who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights, and linguistic ingenuity." He is also a noted translator, screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.!!! His paintings are so amazing that I got lost in them. I will keep coming here... It was .. a .. good morning.

I used to listen to this as a comfort after my iodotheraphy session, it felt like the psychological and physical pain were a little lighter. After I was cancer free went to a short trip to Rossini’s city and one night I was searching for a cafe with a view of the sea and the moon, this play started and it reminded me why I wanted to live, because there was a time when I accepted my absence. The sea waves and this music, it was a climax. The old people started slowly dancing and laughing, it was magical.

That music finds an echo in our souls. It's like dancing with time, death and rebirth all at once... for eternity.

I would say this definitely has the melody traits and melancholic moods of east European regions, like eastern parts of Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, western Ukraine or Romania. With those slight tones of Jewish and Roma music and half beggar musicians who wandered these regions and brought the melodies with them, the same as the the wind did. I like it a lot. Music like this may even be used as a strong emotional background music for contemporary ballet dance. Look e.g. for Peter Breiner - Slovak Dances.

I love this violin and rhytm. And the picture is beautiful. My cat jumped to my lap as she always do, when she hears something beautiful. Sit here and be happy, looking the picture in the net.

It's raining outside,sitting next to the window while listening to this music, left me with the feeling of losing something that I never owned..

Peace and love

I am 19, Im seeing a lot of older people in the mood for love .. we are in the mood for love .. love you all

I feel like youtube has got streets, corners, districts, neighbourhoods, it's like a big metropolis that grows forever. There are like super-well-known and giant neighbourhoods like the pop music ones. You listen to a pop music, you'll go to another pop music. But there are less known bars, cafés and some weird alleys with bohemian folks or weird people whom you want to be friends with - like the macro-café of videos of the songs Yael Naim - Toxic, Hindi Zahra - Stand Up, Damien Rice - Cheers Darlin'. I've just discovered this by taking the route from Stavros Lantsias - Vals of the Eyes, but I don't even remember how did I get there. Probably I left the Yael-Hindi-Damien cafés, cops (that work for the metropolitan area of the UKposts City) saw that I liked that kind of thing. Then, they drove me one square down that same street and came to the Vals of the Eyes "independent theatre": it's not like a café anymore, but a little group of weirdos who like that kind of classic thing who decide to turn their house into a theatre, something pretty cozy and hospitable, with comfortable sofas, a fireplace, a cinnamon scent in the air and local artist's paintings in the walls. There might have lots of comments, lots of views, lots of likes - but like in any other place, people come, people go. All that remains are memories: memories of who have already enjoyed that strange, tiny little place, like if the views and etcetera were signature books full of messages, sketches, scrawls, declarations of love, drawings - but it's not only here! It's not only all over that UKposts city, but all over the whole Internet. Everything written on the Internet was written on the past. Like that comment. I started writing that since the video was about counting 2 minutes. It has now passed the 25 min marker. Everything is in the past, everything we have are mementos. That's so beautiful. Stopped writing at 34:30.

To whomsoever reading, I wish you lots of love. You’re not alone. ❤

Эта музыка может заставить плакать, страдать сопереживать сердце ,даже если оно из камня...даже если ты врвг всему человеческому и всему живому.... Плачу и молюзь за всех кроме его одного... ...я из России...

Dont waste your life thinking of what you have lost... Sometimes we win, sometimes we learn... go forward and be better next time.

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." - Shakespeare.

I lost my beloved cat Sammy this weekend. This showed up on my feed. I clicked. I want to send all my love to everyone else here who is grieving, lonely, sad or lost. I love you, Sammy.

I turned 18 recently... I'm struggling with things and the continuation of changes happens every second... I see myself from outside my body... Life weird... But so beautiful... and this comment section Find others in Abyss soul' ... I'm so grateful to find such a wonderful place....

After reading countless novels and fairytales about love and losing my self between the lines of each story, all I'm left with is just paper and ink and a cold cup of tea, reminding me of how Lonely I am and how hopelessly in love I am with the idea of love, not knowing whom to blame, is it me or is it the love that keeps evading me.

Listening this beautiful music I remember my dear husband who has left this world a year ago and I travel to his arms in a cloud of tears .

I’m sitting at my desk which sits in front of a window while listening to Umebayashi’s gorgeous music. I saw a flock of sparrows fly by. I imagined them flying toward the seaside town in Japan where I used to live as a child. My heart flew with them. Memories, both sweet and painful flooded in.

Hello stranger, I don't know what's going on in your life, but i will share a piece of mine with all the readers, i have been reading this comment section for about 4 years now. But i never had the idea or maybe the courage to type. But i'm glad i'm doing now. This song have been so long about loneliness and sorrow, but i can look back and listen to it now with a smile on my face, because i believe that i can finally agree with the title "In the mood for Love", i have fallen and deep at that. . But i know that it is beautiful and i want you to know it too. This song might be melancholic for you but i hope you'll be able to feel it later on with a heart full of passion and love. I don't know if it will work out till the end but i for sure know that i will be coming back to listen to this once more.

*While listening to this, I just wanted to hold my nonexistent soulmate's hand and to go for a long walk without bothering about destination, and to suddenly hug him tightly and say been waiting for you for so long and would say him that this world is so cruel, I'm tired of it. let me rest here inside your hug.*

Perfect soundtrack to light a fireplace, open a bottle of dry wine, sit in a comfort armchair and watch the ghosts of the house dance

How can a song without words have so much to say? Whoever you are and whatever state of mind you are in.. I just want you to know that I love you so so much! As you read this, feel your whole self expanding with this beautiful energy we call Love, which some confuse to be an emotion, but we know it is way much more.

To the person who is reading this: YOUR SMILE IS BEAUTIFUL. YOU ARE LOVED 🌻

Sending virtual hugs to everyone watching this.🤗 What making me happier is We all are having different emotions but this beautiful piece of music Unites us.

The Film is pure poetry in motion... of course, the music is the veil that revolves around and keeps bringing us as a continous reminder that the characters will never have anything beyond the flirting encounters on the hall...

Sending healing around the world, you are not alone,your body is alive with trillions of cells waiting for you to bring them alive ... create , spread love , make beautiful things , give a stranger a gift , make someone smile , be close to nature and animals, smile at the sun and talk to the moon . Whisper to the wind and shout at the storm. We all have a voice

At first, the melody inspired me to dance. Then, while I was freestyling in my imagination, I realized tears were all over my face.

I miss the person who introduced me to this. I hope he's well and in peace.

"He remembers those vanished years, as though looking through a dusty window pane. The past is something he could see, but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct.”

love so much love without words. Nothing else is needed.

i’m turning 23 in less than a week and im currently stuck in an episode of limerence. i feel underdeveloped, lonely and unaccomplished but also very hopeful while lost; this music piece is one of the best things to happen to me this year.

I have never commented on any video on youtube and this has to be my first. When i close my eyes and listen to this beautiful melody, i see myself drifting on a boat in a river, the boat being my soul and the river, my life. I see alot of strangers on the banks and alot of them have hurt me, damaged my boat but I repair my boat and I keep on moving with the flow of the river. I think I am at peace now.

Profound, dreamy, intoxicating - I could drown in this music. It sounds more European than Far Eastern, like a muzurka or something. Wonderful.

“More does not make anyone happy. To be happy, just be happy unconditionally!” ― Sukant Ratnakar

This masterpiece sounds like pain is dancing with love

From the film “In the Mood for Love” by Wong-Kar Wai. The movie is just as beautiful as the song.

It's desperate, it's passionate, it's hopeful, sad, it's about love and death, about the intricacies of life. It's just magnificent!!!!!

Not a terribly meaningful or dramatic contribution here but I clicked this while searching for backround music while I finish my chemistry class. Motivation is important as anything I suppose...love and peace to whoever reads this.

my Ex and I reunited in a café and this music was playing and she got such dreamy eyes oh my god NEVER EVER let anyone be without love

I am determined to become a novelist, and this song has given me great inspiration. It told me nothing, but it told me a lot!

Thank you all for opening your heart. I have never encountered a more pure,heartfelt and emotional comments section. Hugs to everybody here.

If loneliness had it's own theme music, it would be this piece...

we are all here, sharing pain and love..................stay well my friends.........honour the loved ones by being the best you can be....

I feel a void in my life that I can't quite explain to anyone. This little piece is the only thing that come close as an explanation.

Rainy day in Washington D.C., thinking about my father who pasaed away three months ago. First Father's Day without him. Death somehow glorifies life. This piece echoes the journey we have, sad, repetative yet painfully beautiful. When we learn to embrace all moments, we still need to love, love and love...

Music has no language... It is itself a language..... Very attractive music...

Seeing you people saying most profound and most beautiful of things here is making me feel like I'm a part of a community where almost all the people are intellectual, thoughtful and for once not at all superficial. I'm honoured to be a part of something so pure and so meaningful

It's funny how this song was originally for the movie "Yumeji" but most people remember it as the soundtrack of "In The Mood For Love". As a Japanese cinephile, I hope more people watch "Yumeji" as well.

I put this music before sleep. It became related to my dreams. It calms my mind. It’s magical. Reading some comments made me feel that this piece brought us together to a world of magic and dreams❤

This performance is like a cloud dancing in the air. Thanks a lot!

That blend of sadness and melancholy but with unsuppressed longing and desire. The violin speaks for the heart.

And one day I will find a person who’s voice makes me feel the exact same way as this song.

Whenever I need a support in silence , strength to my soul, to get back courage - I listen to this masterly music for love - not sure how it effects and pull the soul up from dungeon- take a bow creator

I've been through a lot, depression, suicide attempts, emotional abuse and a abusive girlfriend. A lot of these things still go on and I'm at the point where I feel like I have nothing to go on for. The worst part is helping people get the things I want and need, sorting their lives out, getting them girlfriends and boyfriends, yet I stay behind and often I'm forgotten about. Still alone and still lost, at the end of my rope. This song describes how I feel at this point and there's a weird comfort in that. It somehow makes those emotions extremely visceral, yet melts away my anger and resentment. There's a strange bittersweetnes to it. And I'm thankful for that.

My 2.5y old hears this for the first time and says "Baba, its crying". - Oh my heart! ❤️

to my husband who passed away 6 months ago,8/21/2016 in Percy Hospital,Paris..Dr Jocelyn Guilbert..Remember Mounth Merapi,where we met and you've worked there 1995-97....How hard is our life without you,me and kids.But you were a good husband.Thank's for the last 20 years.You could climb the heaven as you've ever climbed the mounth merapi.