Kanashimi no Belladonna

哀しみのベラドンナ

Synonyms: The Tragedy of Belladonna

Type Movie
Status Completed
Episodes 1
Duration 89 min/ep
Released Jun 1973
Season Summer 1973
Source Other
Country Japan
Director Gisaburou Sugii
Score 71%
Popularity #20,653
Characters Jeanne (Main), Jean (Main), Akuma (Main), Okugata (Supporting), Ryoushu (Supporting), Shisai (Supporting), Piero (Supporting), Narrator (Background)
Staff Osamu Tezuka (Producer), Osamu Dezaki (Key Animation), Seiichi Hayashi (Key Animation Assistance), Gisaburou Sugii (Animation Director), Eiichi Yamamoto (Script), Eiichi Yamamoto (Director), Masahiko Satou (Music), Mayumi Tachibana (Theme Song Performance), Hiroyoshi Mitsunobu (Key Animation), Reiko Okuyama (Key Animation), Tsuneo Maeda (Key Animation), Manabu Oohashi (In-between Animation)

Synopsis

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.
(Sources: ANN, Wikipedia)

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