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Belladonna of Sadness
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Jeanne (voiced by Aiko Nagayama) is a peasant woman who has just been Happily Married to Jean (voiced by Katsutaka Ito). However they can't pay the absurdly high marriage tax, so the baron (voiced by Masaya Takahashi) sees fit to have his way with her.When she returns home, she is seduced by the Devil (Tatsuya Nakadai) then finds herself gradually turning to witchcraft to find empowerment and freedom.At first, she and her husband are prosperous but as famine, war, and The Black Death strike the rest of the village, suspicion grows and she is eventually cast out of the village.She wins the villagers over when she offers a miracle cure for The Black Death, but then the nobility catches wind of her power...Belladonna of Sadness (Kanashimi no Belladonna, also known as The Tragedy of Belladonna) is an avant-garde anime film made in 1973, and the final installment in the Mushi Productions' Animerama trilogy that was started by A Thousand & One Nights. Inspired by… Jules Michelet's non-fiction book, Satanism and Witchcraft (or La Sorcière), the film was directed by Osamu Tezuka's disciple, Eiichi Yamamoto, and produced by Tezuka's studio, Mushi Productions.Although the film was initially a commercial failure, it has gained some recognition in anime circles for its experimental animation, which is full of beautifully painted still images, Gustav Klimt Art Nouveau inspired imagery and heavily stylized depictions of sex. The film also inspired Kunihiko Ikuhara to work in anime, and its visual and thematic influences can be seen in Revolutionary Girl Utena.Released in 2016 with theatrical and home video re-release in North America, the official and Red Band trailers can be found here and here. It has also been broadcast, uncensored, late nights on Turner Classic Movies. Discotek Media has announced a 4K/Blu Ray combo pack remaster scheduled for a May 2024 release. | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: In a very symbolic but very graphic scene, Jeanne is gang-raped by the Baron and other nobles. The scene is rather disturbing and involves Jeanne's body turning into bats amidst her despair. | |
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Crucified Hero Shot | |
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Crucified Hero Shot: The baron has Jeanne burned on a cross-shaped stake. | |
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Love Potion | |
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Love Potion: The page gets Jeanne to make him a love potion so he can have sex with the baroness. It ends badly for the page and the baroness when the baron catches them. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: All over the film, but most strikingly the devil, who is a literal dickhead. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: A villager mentions that Jeanne extracted some liquid from a belladonna flower that cured his wife's labor pains. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: Jeanne makes a series of deals with the Devil to gain increasing material and magical power until she finally sells her soul to him, has sex with him, and becomes a Hot Witch. | |
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Barefoot Poverty | |
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Barefoot Poverty: Jeanne never has any shoes in the beginning because she and her husband, Jean, are farmers with only one cow which they sold for offerings to the baron). It transitions to Prefers Going Barefoot as she's still barefoot when she becomes the town moneylender. | |
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Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife | |
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Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife: Jeanne gets the abilities of a traditional wise woman, such as plant knowledge, healing and making magical potions. She's also more knowledgeable of human nature, judging by the fact that she knows her meeting with the baron will be a trap. In contrast, her husband, Jean, is rather feckless and gets treated like a Butt-Monkey. | |
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World of Symbolism | |
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World of Symbolism: Virtually every scene in the movie contains some highly symbolic reference to sex or magic or religion or...really everything. | |
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A Party, Also Known as an Orgy | |
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A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: Jeanne's return to the town with a resurrected Michel and the Devil seems to kick off an orgy that consumes the whole town. At least that's what the extended sequence featuring deeply bizarre Deranged Animation sexual imagery seems to suggest. | |
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Dies Wide Open | |
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Dies Wide Open: Jean, after being impaled with many spears. | |
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Burn the Witch! | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_352def2a | comment |
Burn the Witch!: The baron has Jeanne burned on a cross-shaped stake. Her husband, Jean, tries to rescue her, but he ends up turned into a Human Pincushion. | |
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Belladonna of Sadness / int_401d4116 | type |
Broken Aesop | |
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Broken Aesop: The film's feminist credentials feel undercut by the constant sexual violence Jeanne endures, coupled with its fondness for long, lingering pans up and down her frequently naked body. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: Jeanne gets burned at the stake and Jean dies trying to rescue her, but it's heavily implied the rebellion against the upper class and social norms that she started will live on, contributing to events that spark The French Revolution. | |
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Scenery Gorn | |
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Scenery Gorn: The Black Death is visualized as a giant black wave filled with human bones sweeping over a city. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: The backgrounds are very detailed and beautiful. | |
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Downer Ending | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: Jeanne is burned alive, Jean is killed during his attempt to save her, and the rest of the village is cowed into submission to the Baron. However... | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: The page shields the baroness with a modern-day umbrella despite the Middle Age setting. To execute a witch on a cross like the Savior would have been considered blasphemy. | |
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Visual Innuendo | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_58030b25 | comment |
Visual Innuendo: Despite the numerous explicit sex scenes and a distinct aversion of Barbie Doll Anatomy, the animation uses free forms and contours to convey the eroticism of these scenes. The Devil is a tiny little roughly penis-sized figure wrapped up completely in a white cloak except for his pink head. Shortly thereafter this becomes something more than innuendo as he jumps down into Jeanne's pants and begins pleasuring her. | |
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Belladonna of Sadness / int_648fe274 | type |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_648fe274 | comment |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: The baron doesn't seem to remember torturing Jeanne and Jean. | |
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Shameless Fanservice Girl | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_6563aeb6 | comment |
Shameless Fanservice Girl: After having sex with the Devil and becoming a Hot Witch, Jeanne is pretty much done with clothing as a thing. | |
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Mind Screwdriver | |
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Mind Screwdriver: The symbolism makes a bit more sense if you've read Satanism and Witchcraft. For instance, the eight-minute "Schoolhouse Rock" sequence refers to the book's claim that as part of their Deal with the Devil, witches received all knowledge of past, present, and future. | |
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Healing Herb | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_7784d502 | comment |
Healing Herb: After her final Deal with the Devil to become a Hot Witch, Jeanne can use the belladonna plant to cure all manner of illnesses and make magical potions. | |
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Obviously Evil | |
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Obviously Evil: The baron doesn't even look like a human being, with a skull-like face, empty black eyes, and horns. | |
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Animation Bump | |
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Animation Bump: It's rather an animation earthquake when the slide-show "animation" is suddenly replaced by a full-animated psychedelic extravaganza during the Deal with the Devil. In general, the sex scenes are intricately animated while the non-sex plot-moving scenes are Limited Animation or The Ken Burns Effect. There are also dramatic moments where the animation becomes absurdly fluid. The juxtaposition between still frames and moments like these is both jarring and effective. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_82accf22 | comment |
Gainax Ending: As Jeanne is crucified and burned, the faces of the women watching her all turn into the faces of Jeanne. The end title card displays a statement about how women lead the French Revolution over the image of Liberty Leading the People. | |
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Back from the Dead | |
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Back from the Dead: A villager comes back to life once Jeanne heals him from The Black Death to the shock of his fellow peasants. His recovery leads the rest of the village to follow Jeanne and her witchcraft. | |
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Erotic Film | |
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Erotic Film: The film is a deeply bizarre anime film about a formerly innocent young woman who makes a Deal with the Devil, which involves sex with him, and becomes a Hot Witch. Lots and lots of anime sex is had. | |
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Aristocrats Are Evil | |
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Aristocrats Are Evil: The baron is a sadistic rapist who taxes his townspeople to near starvation and indulges in Droit du Seigneur. The baroness isn't better. | |
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Barbie Doll Anatomy | |
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Despite the numerous explicit sex scenes and a distinct aversion of Barbie Doll Anatomy, the animation uses free forms and contours to convey the eroticism of these scenes. | |
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Emerald Power | |
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Emerald Power: Green is said to be the Devil's color. After he gives her the ability to make a highly desired thread to sell, Jeanne becomes the town moneylender and goes around in a green cloak, which makes the townspeople suspicious of her. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: The baron receives literally no comeuppance at all for his gang rape of Jeanne, ultimately burning Jeanne at the stake, suppressing the rebellious townspeople, and continuing to reign virtually unopposed. The baroness does cheat on him with the page, causing him to murder them both, but even that doesn't seem to trouble him much. Jeanne's actions are heavily implied to kickstart The French Revolution, but the medieval baron would be long dead by then. | |
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Droit du Seigneur | |
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Droit du Seigneur: Jean is unable to pay the exorbitantly high marriage tax to the baron, leading the baron and his entire castle to gang rape his wife, Jeanne, as substitute payment. | |
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Porn with Plot | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_aa8f52c7 | comment |
Porn with Plot: The film is a cult classic for its gorgeous, psychedelic artwork, its awesome psych-prog score and original songs, and its developed, well-written story with feminist themes (explicitly ending with a call for women to be at the front of the revolution — not something you'd expect to see in a porn). It was also intended to be a porno, has some visible budget restrictions due to this, and a lot of very graphic sex scenes. | |
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Couple Theme Naming | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_ab0a548c | comment |
Couple Theme Naming: The protagonist of the film is named Jeanne, who is married to a man named Jean. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: Jeanne is a beautiful girl who's never had any shoes and is fully or partially naked more often than not. She's such foot fetish material that in one scene of her gang rape, one of her rapists is playing with her toes. And then there are her various erotically charged encounters. | |
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The Black Death | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_b0ae741 | comment |
The Black Death: Jeanne sets out to save the villagers from the black death but it turns out to be a bad idea. | |
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Feudal Overlord | |
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Feudal Overlord: The baron is a sadistic rapist who taxes his townspeople to near starvation and indulges in Droit du Seigneur. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: All five minutes in the film before things go downhill. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: The symbolism and imagery can be nigh-incomprehensible at times. | |
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Satan | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_c3bafbce | comment |
Satan: The Devil seduces Jeanne, has sex with her, and turns her into a Hot Witch. | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The coupling between the page and the mind-controlled baroness ends with both of them impaled on the same sword after they're caught mid-coitus. Jean, after he tries to fight back at Jeanne's execution, is impaled with many spears. | |
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Hot Witch | |
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Hot Witch: Jeanne makes a Deal with the Devil that turns her into a witch and a Shameless Fanservice Girl with a habit of starting orgies. She's actually put out by this, telling him that she would rather have been made an ugly crone in true Wicked Witch style. But no, the Devil leaves her beauty fully intact. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: The baron, the baroness, and the page have no name given. | |
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The Ken Burns Effect | |
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The Ken Burns Effect: The film takes Limited Animation to its logical extreme, as much of the film is simply a camera panning and zooming around still drawings. | |
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Emasculated Cuckold | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_cc017ca0 | comment |
Emasculated Cuckold: Jeanne doesn't cheat on Jean perse but is raped by the town's evil baron, but the dynamic is nevertheless there. Jean, a peasant, is devastated by the rape but is a total pushover who is incapable of defending his wife's honor and remains useless throughout the movie, preferring to drink away his sorrows rather than get revenge or exercise power when he gets a promotion to taxpayer. Meanwhile, the rape triggers Jeanne to make a Deal with the Devil and she becomes increasingly sexually and magically empowered as the film progresses. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_d028e0da | comment |
An Arm and a Leg: The baron makes Jean the official tax collector for regularly paying his taxes, but during the war, he can't squeeze anything more from the peasantry. As punishment, the baron has Jean's left hand chopped off. | |
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Broken Bird | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_d08595d3 | comment |
Broken Bird: It's more like Jean that's the broken one than Jeanne. She is broken after her gang rape but quickly gets her bearings back after meeting the Devil. He, on the other hand, almost strangles his wife after getting cuckolded; from then on, he's rarely sober and his behavior gets worse after she becomes the main money earner then he gets his left hand chopped off for not collecting enough taxes. | |
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Intimate Healing | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_da2f3716 | comment |
Intimate Healing: Jeanne's apparent method of curing The Black Death. | |
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The Dung Ages | |
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The Dung Ages: Set in an ambiguous time during the Middle Ages, and all of the usual tropes of the time period show up, including Droit du Seigneur, The Plague, and Burn the Witch!. | |
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Limited Animation | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_e034faef | comment |
Limited Animation: A significant portion of the movie is made of either still images or pans over paintings. | |
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Nude Nature Dance | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_e41b191f | comment |
Nude Nature Dance: Jeanne kicks off the village orgy by dancing nude with magical, healing flowers. | |
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Clothing Damage | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_e61d9a3c | comment |
Clothing Damage: When Jeanne flees from the village, her cloak and tunic are gradually ripped apart until she reaches the wilderness completely nude. | |
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Jerkass | |
Belladonna of Sadness / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Jean, the baron, the baroness, the page...etc. | |
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Le Film Artistique | |
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Le Film Artistique: Often considered as an art film, with its psychedelic visuals and Mind Screw plot. | |
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