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Emotion (1966)

Emotion poster
Original title
EMOTION 伝説の午後=いつか見たドラキュラ
Directed by
Nobuhiko Obayashi
Genre
drama, fantasy, horror
Country
Japan
Runtime
39 min
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 38 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman named Emi leaves her seaside village and goes to a city. There she meets Sari and also comes across a vampire.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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