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Emotion

Emotion

1966
Fantasy
Short Film
39m
Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with...a vampire? (imdb)
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Émotion, Emotion: densetsu no gogo = itsukamita Dracula
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Emotion

1966
Fantasy
Short Film
39m
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Avg Percentile 62.72% from 116 total ratings

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Rated 17 Nov 2009
90
94th
The free-wheeling story of two girl friends makes me think of Daisies. And the references to vampires and lesbians makes me think of Valerie and her Week of Wonders. But wait, there's also spaghetti western in here. And gothic horror. And a part that feels directly inspired by A Hard Day's Night. And self-reference. Yee-haw! Now THIS feels like something from the director of Hausu. A wild, playful, fucked-up romp.
Rated 03 Apr 2020
65
62nd
A wonderfully weird Japanese film with French/English narration and fun visuals and editing. It started to drag and felt much longer than it actually was and I started to lose interest towards the end.
Rated 22 Jul 2011
90
94th
It's gotta be tough to make a long-form experimental film that doesn't get tedious, but Obayashi pulls it off very well here. It's full of just all kinds of wonderful stuff, and it's tons of fun.
Rated 12 Nov 2011
84
86th
Chaotic, yet magnificent.
Rated 24 May 2014
50
30th
Whatever.
Rated 06 Jun 2015
70
75th
Forty minutes of hardcore new-wave experimentalism, with a plot in the multi-genre pastiche that later marked Obayashi's most famous work, Hausu. Chock-full of references, many of them to cinema that hadn't been made yet. Blinking is inadvisable, as the cuts are so breakneck that you would surely miss something.
Rated 08 Jun 2015
8
80th
The drugs wore off towards the end but the chaos was more than welcome. Lots of fun.
Rated 21 Jun 2015
87
80th
I need to watch the rest of his experimental films, because I was all sorts of in love with this.
Rated 26 Sep 2017
6
95th
So I need to see House ASAP
Rated 11 Apr 2020
85
78th
Em honra de Nobuhiko Obayashi (1938 - 2020) filme #2. Esse filme mostra que Obayashi era de vanguarda já nos seus curtas dos anos 60, mistura de A Hard's Day Night com Drácula e psicanálise, eu diria que esse seria um ótimo ponto para iniciar em sua obra. BlurayRip no MakingOff.
Rated 25 Oct 2020
90
91st
Shows a lot of signs of the insanity that would come with House. Quick, kinetic editing, odd usage of colours, a strange story, wonderful visuals, etc. Obayashi can disorient you with one scene but then awe you with his shot composition in the next scene.

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