Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
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)
- Also known as
- Kanashimi no Belladonna · 哀しみのベラドンナ
- Format
- MOVIE · 1 episodes
- Status
- Finished
- Genres
- Drama, Psychological
- Studio
- Mushi Production
- AniList score
- 71/100
- Main characters
- Jeanne, Jean, Akuma, Ryoushu, Okugata, Shisai, Piero, Narrator
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