Emotion (film)

Emotion (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]

Emotion
Directed byNobuhiko Obayashi
Produced byKyoko Obayashi
Written byKyoko Hanyu
Nobuhiko Obayashi
StarringEmi Tabata
Sari Akasaka
Narrated byDonald Richie (English narration)[1]
Kyoko Hanyu (Japanese narration)
Music byNaoshi Miyazaki
Release date
  • 1966 (1966)
Running time
39 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageEnglish
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]

References
  1. Abrams, Simon (26 October 2010). "DVD Review: Nobuhiko Obayashi's House on the Criterion Collection". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  2. Skal, David J. (2004). Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen (First revised ed.). London, England: Faber and Faber. p. 303. ISBN 978-0571211586.
  3. Browning, John Edgar; Picart, Caroline Joan (2010). Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921–2010. McFarland & Company. p. 84. ISBN 978-0786433650.
  4. Hudson, David (13 April 2020). "Beyond House: Nobuhiko Obayashi". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  5. Cairns, David (12 November 2015). "The Forgotten: Nobuhiko Obayashi's "Emotion" (1967)". Notebook. MUBI. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  6. "House Criterion Collection Blu-ray". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  7. "House (1977)". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  8. Perez, Rodrigo (28 October 2010). "Criterion DVD Review: Nobuhiko Obayashi's Child-like Psychedelic Ghost Tale, 'House' Is Out There". IndieWire. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
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