Belladonna of Sadness

Kanashimi no Beradona

MS16

Genre

Drama, Animation, Fantasy

Director

Eiichi Yamamoto

Run time

1h 29min

The beautiful peasant woman Jeanne is raped by a demonic overlord on her wedding night. Spurned by her husband, she has no outlet for her awakened libido, which develops to give her powers of witchcraft. The film is inspired by Jules Michelet's non-fiction book "Satanism and Witchcraft", it is the third and final film in the Animerama trilogy, and the only one to be neither written nor directed by Osamu Tezuka.

Genre

Drama, Animation, Fantasy

Director

Eiichi Yamamoto

Run time

1h 29min

The beautiful peasant woman Jeanne is raped by a demonic overlord on her wedding night. Spurned by her husband, she has no outlet for her awakened libido, which develops to give her powers of witchcraft. The film is inspired by Jules Michelet's non-fiction book "Satanism and Witchcraft", it is the third and final film in the Animerama trilogy, and the only one to be neither written nor directed by Osamu Tezuka.

Info

Rating

Under 16 Not Recommended

Production year

1973

Global distributor

-

Local distributor

Otaku MTÜ

In cinema

5/6/2013