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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?
Emotion
1966 ‘EMOTION 伝説の午後＝いつか見たドラキュラ’ Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
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"to inflict pain on each other's flesh [was] the only way they could be sure of one another's love."
RIP king
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Title couldn't be more apt. This is pure feeling in cinematic form; editing, music, colour, text, movement, all coming together through some strange alchemy to touch the innermost reaches of your heart.
Not a single second feels out of place. I did not understand it, but I felt it. Already I can sense it slipping through my fingers. Obayashi I love you.
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obayashi just casually inventing new colours... this one is for when you are in love with a tree. this one means dracula. rarely, if ever, do you find a director who has this much fun making films. we also share many of the same cinematic ideals (films shouldn't take themselves so seriously and should have beautiful women everywhere) and i adore how horny this man is for living life. he says "the dandelions aren't blooming today" and i say "right on"
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I've been eying this short film for some time but never gave it serious thought. Luckily enough it is included in the special features section of Tyrion Lannister's copy of House! I wanted to get an episode of Twin Peaks in before the night was through but alas, you only get to have your friend's Criterion of House once in a lifetime so I thought I might as well take advantage of the hand God so graciously dealt me.
Making the right decision rarely feels this good.
Emotion is an experimental film and therefore everything in it is meant to be taken with a grain of salt. No matter how strange or weird it comes off the purpose is to…
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'Emotion' is peculiar little film. Experimental, but it has warmth and some sweetness in it. Like many other such surreal experimental movies, 'Emotion' is very hard to analyze. The film has a core story, a girl meets another girl who looks like her and she falls in love to a vampire. Very interesting use of old Dracula myth. Although it might be little hard to follow or understand what is going on, is it a dream, a distorted real world, it's still enjoyable film, especially when you're into surreal stuff.
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A chaotic tour de force of editing that understandably does not match the magic which I have come to associate Nobuhiko Ōbayashi with. Yet the way Ōbayashi plays with the camera, without any shred of restraint, is a sign of things to come. Emotion may as well have been the first work that announced his arrival to the avant-garde scene, more than a decade prior to Hausu.
Film #10 of Japanuary.
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Foregoing typical narrative structure in favor of a bohemian-style experimentation, Ōbayashi’s Emotion blends elements of mythic vampirism with a youthful awakening, creating something that is best left sparsely described, but entirely felt. Though a lack of cohesion causes it to be a tad bit messy, this film contains images that are both playful and unsettling, blending color with black-and-white cinematography, montage and a fantastic score from Naoshi Miyazaki; what we are left with is a unique and utterly empirical experience that defies cinematic norms, opting for a totally offbeat approach to the medium that still feels fresh and innovative, even now.
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Ōbayashi's precursor - test trial, if you will - to everything he'd been doing all his career. He finds beauty in the most absurd of things, gorgeously weird editing that is so unmistakeably Ōbayashi to me at this point, and his references to Nakahara Chuya's poems only strengthens the parallels and connections of the beginnings and end of his work. A lot of it can feel like experimentation for the sake of experimentation, but it still all works out in the end; an outcome only Ōbayashi could've created.
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Obayashi is here to remind filmmakers, and everyone really, to do whatever you want. Forever.
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Mesmerizing avant-garde short by cult director Nobuhiko Obayashi. I was delighted to discover that this is dedicated to Roger Vadim’s dreamy vampire erotica Blood and Roses, which is a dear favorite of mine. As expected, the story is a loose re-telling of Carmilla. The film actually has more in common with Vampyr for it adopts the style and aesthetics of the silent era, but featuring batshit editing and other weird, phantasmal camera tricks. If Guy Maddin had made a Japanese New Wave movie, then it would look like this.