Emotion (film)
# 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), stylized on-screen as Émotion, is a 1966 Japanese experimental short film directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. 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.

## 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."

## Home media

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

