Belladonna of Sadness
Kanashimi no Belladonna
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)
DramaPsychological
MOVIE1 episodes89 minFINISHEDSummer 1973
SEASONS, OVAs, MOVIES & SPECIALS
2 ENTRIES
CHARACTERS
3 MAIN · 5 SUPPORTING
JeanneMAINAiko Nagayama
JeanMAINTakao Itou
AkumaMAINTatsuya Nakadai
OkugataSUPPORTINGShigaku Shimegi
RyoushuSUPPORTINGMasaya Takahashi
ShisaiSUPPORTINGMasakane Yonekura
PieroSUPPORTINGTaisaku Akino
NarratorBACKGROUNDChinatsu Nakayama
