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Cinelicious Pics, SpectreVision and the Cinefamily have joined forces to present a newly restored 4K version of the long-unseen 1973 Japanese anime feature, Belladonna of Sadness. Never officially released in the United States, the beautiful and wildly surreal Belladonna was adapted from writer Jules Michelet's 1862 proto-feminist, occult novel La Sorciere.
"Although it was too far-out there and explicit for distributors in America in the early 1970s, I think cinema audiences have finally caught up with Belladonna," says Dennis Bartok, EVP of Cinelicious Pics, noting "The film combines Tolkien-style medieval fantasy, demonic tarot-card imagery by way of artists like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Guido Crepax, graphic and disturbing eroticism, and a mindblowing, fuzz-stoked psychedelic soundtrack."
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Prior to the film's theatrical, Blu-ray and VOD release in 2016, Belladonna of Sadness will be screened at several prestigious film festivals, both in the United States and internationally, to be announced shortly.
Belladonna of Sadness was the final film in the adult-oriented "Animerama Trilogy," all of which were directed by Eiichi Yamamoto (the classic "Astro Boy" and "Kimba the White Lion" TV series) and produced by Japanese anime and manga legend Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Productions.
"Although it was too far-out there and explicit for distributors in America in the early 1970s, I think cinema audiences have finally caught up with Belladonna," says Dennis Bartok, EVP of Cinelicious Pics, noting "The film combines Tolkien-style medieval fantasy, demonic tarot-card imagery by way of artists like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Guido Crepax, graphic and disturbing eroticism, and a mindblowing, fuzz-stoked psychedelic soundtrack."
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Prior to the film's theatrical, Blu-ray and VOD release in 2016, Belladonna of Sadness will be screened at several prestigious film festivals, both in the United States and internationally, to be announced shortly.
Belladonna of Sadness was the final film in the adult-oriented "Animerama Trilogy," all of which were directed by Eiichi Yamamoto (the classic "Astro Boy" and "Kimba the White Lion" TV series) and produced by Japanese anime and manga legend Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Productions.
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Sounds frickin awesome afaic.
