title: Emotion (film)
text: # 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.
  
  