Angel’s Egg 4K Restoration

Dir. Mamoru Oshii & Yoshitaka Amano
1985, Japan, 73 min
Japanese with English subtitles
Rated 14A

In an underwater city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms – a treasure that she believes is an angel’s egg. A boy with a gun arrives in search of a bird he saw in his dream. At first it seems as if feelings of sympathy are developing between the two.

Forty years after the film’s original release, GKIDS is proud to present an all-new 4K restoration of Angel’s Egg, which is being supervised by director Oshii, in cinemas nationwide for the first time.

First released directly to home video in 1985, the film is a creative collaboration between internationally acclaimed director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell), who wrote and directed the feature, and revered artist Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy, Vampire Hunter D). The film beautifully intertwines Oshii’s thematic reflections on philosophy and theology, with Amano’s distinctive ink painting style, culminating in an arrestingly beautiful hand-drawn allegorical fantasy.

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