Emotion

Jan 1, 1966

0h 39m

★ 6.8

Overview

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?

Genres

Drama

Fantasy

Horror

Emotion Trailers

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Cast

Emi

Emi Tabata

Sari

Sari Akasaka

Narrator (voice)

Kyôko Hanyû

Sakio Hirata

Jinichi Isizaki

Jusin Kitamura

Narrator (voice)

Donald Richie

Emi Urawakai

Chigumi Ôbayashi

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