Belladonna of Sadness

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)

Relations

OTHER

A Thousand & One Nights

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OTHER

Cleopatra

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Characters

Jeanne

MAIN

Aiko Nagayama

Japanese

Jean

MAIN

Takao Itou

Japanese

Akuma

MAIN

Tatsuya Nakadai

Japanese

Okugata

SUPPORTING

Shigaku Shimegi

Japanese

Ryoushu

SUPPORTING

Masaya Takahashi

Japanese

Shisai

SUPPORTING

Masakane Yonekura

Japanese

Piero

SUPPORTING

Taisaku Akino

Japanese

Narrator

BACKGROUND

Chinatsu Nakayama

Japanese