Emotion (film)

Emotion (EMOTION 伝説の午後 いつか見たドラキュラ Hepburn: Emotion: densetsu no gogo = itsukamita Dracula),^[2][3] stylized on-screen as Émotion, is a 1966 Japanese experimental short film directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi.^[4] It stars Emi Tabata as Emi, a young woman who travels from a seaside village to a city, where she meets another girl named Sari (Sari Akasaka) and encounters a vampire.^{[3][additional citation(s) needed]}

Emotion
The Criterion Collection release cover art
Japanese name
Kanji	EMOTION 伝説の午後 いつか見たドラキュラ
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Emotion: densetsu no gogo = itsukamita Dracula
Directed by	Nobuhiko Obayashi
Written by	Kyoko Hanyu Nobuhiko Obayashi
Produced by	Kyoko Obayashi
Starring	Emi Tabata Sari Akasaka
Narrated by	Kyoko Hanyu (Japanese) Donald Richie (English)[1]
Music by	Naoshi Miyazaki
Release date	1966 (1966)
Running time	39 minutes
Country	Japan
Languages	English Japanese

Cast

• Emi Tabata as Emi
• Sari Akasaka as Sari
• Jinichi Isizaki
• Keiko Machida
• Jusin Kitamura
• Harumi Sō
• Ichirō Takahasi
• Tamiko Tachikawa
• Misuzu Mori
• Yoshiyuki Oka
• Sakio Hirata
• Chigumi Obayashi

Reception

In 2015, David Cairns of Notebook referred to Emotion as "a collage of camera effects, stills, pixillation and every other trick the decade had to offer", concluding: "Obayashi's caffeinated take on avant-garde cinema certainly shows the influence of commercials, and he never met a gimmick he didn't like, but he can sure compose a shot."^[5]

Home media

On 26 October 2010, the Criterion Collection released Obayashi's 1977 feature-length film House on Blu-ray and DVD,^[6] with Emotion included as a special feature.^[1][7][8]