The unique movie debuted in 1973
Painter Kuni Fukai introduced on X/Twitter on Tuesday that there are plans to start out a crowdfunding challenge to create a restored artwork e book for the movie Belladonna of SorrowFukai served as artwork director for the challenge in 1971. The movie debuted in Japan in 1973.
This would be the 89-year-old artist’s first artwork e book.
Disco licensed the movie and launched it on a brand new 4K switch on a 4K Extremely HD Blu-ray Disc in 2024, that includes a brand new HDR class and a 1080p SDR model. The corporate describes the story:
Jeanne had hoped her marriage ceremony day can be a dream – a lightweight shining by way of the oppressive fog of darkish medieval France. However that fantasy was horribly shattered on her marriage ceremony night time. Whereas struggling to outlive her waking nightmare, Jeanne encounters a mischievous apparition who provides her energy past her wildest desires. However when the Belladonna‘s affect grows, as does the tragedy that lurks to trample it. The good Eiichi Yamamoto weaves a tapestry of chilling horrors and psychedelic sexual visions within the closing a part of Mushi manufacturing‘s Animerama trilogy.
Cinelicious Images beforehand distributed the movie in English. The corporate restored the movie in 4K decision from its unique 35mm detrimental in 2014, and later distributed it theatrically, on residence video, and on demand. The movie is accessible for streaming on Tubi TV, Vuduand Prime Video.
The movie has by no means been launched in america, though it screened in Los Angeles in 2009 and at Fantasia Fest in Montreal in 2013. The movie screened on the Japan Cuts Movie Competition in New York in 2015 and on the Implausible Fest Movie Competition in Texas.
Osamu Tezuka produced the movie, and his longtime inventive companion Eiichi Yamamoto (Star blowers screenwriter, Astro Boy: Hero of Area) wrote and directed the movie at Mushi Productions. Masahiko Satoh (Grave of the Fireflies, The implausible adventures of Unico) composed the movie’s soundtrack.
Supply: X/Twitter from Fukai Kuni account
