Painter Kuni Fukai‘s deliberate crowdfunding marketing campaign to create a restored artwork e book for the movie Belladonna of Sorrow launched on the Movement Gallery website on Wednesday, with a funding objective of three million yen (roughly US$20,800). The marketing campaign will run till October 31. On the time of writing, the marketing campaign has raised 2,266,000 yen (roughly US$15,900).
Fukai was artwork director on the undertaking in 1971. The movie debuted in Japan in 1973. This would be the 89-year-old artist’s first artwork e book. The e book will function artwork based mostly on the movie information for the current 4K remastered model of the movie. If the crowdfunding marketing campaign is profitable, Fukai plans to launch a second crowdfunding marketing campaign for a second artwork e book for the movie.
Disco license for the movie and launched it on a brand new 4K switch on a 4K Extremely HD Blu-ray Disc on Might 28, that includes a brand new HDR high quality and a 1080p SDR model. The corporate describes the story:
Jeanne had hoped her marriage ceremony day can be a dream – a light-weight shining via the oppressive fog of darkish medieval France. However that fantasy was horribly shattered on her marriage ceremony night time. Struggling to outlive her waking nightmare, Jeanne encounters a mischievous apparition who affords her energy past her wildest goals. However because the belladonna’s affect grows, so does the tragedy that lurks to trample her. 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 Pictures beforehand distributed the movie in English. The corporate restored the movie in 4K decision from its unique 35mm unfavourable in 2014, and later distributed it theatrically, on house video, and on demand. The movie is on the market for streaming on Tubi TV, Vuduand Prime Video.
The movie has by no means been launched in the US, 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 Incredible Fest Movie Competition in Texas.
Osamu Tezuka produced the movie, and his longtime artistic 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 unbelievable adventures of Unico) composed the movie’s soundtrack.
Sources: Motion gallery, Sketch Natalie
