Purple Television
[04/10/2020] : film
Purple Paradiso: “Belladonna Of Sadness” by Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973, Your Movie Of The Day Curated and Reviewed By Savannah Nolan and Olivier Zahm
Belladonna of Sadness is a 1973 Japanese animated Faustian revenge fairy tale directed by Eiichi Yamamoto based off of Jules Michelet’s book Satanism and Witchcraft published in 1862. In the late 60s, the so-called “God of Manga” (creator of Astro Boy) Osamu Tekuza, conceived three adult anime films known as Animerama. These films share a common theme of avant-garde […]
