What is Belladonna of Sadness about?
Studio: Mushi Production
Status: Finished
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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