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Angel's Egg is a film of genre Drama directed by Mamoru Oshii with Mako Hyōdō

Angel's Egg (1985)

Angel's Egg
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Length 1h11
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Genres Drama,    Science fiction,    Fantasy,    Horror,    Animation
Rating77% 3.8503153.8503153.8503153.8503153.850315

Angel's Egg (天使のたまご, Tenshi no Tamago) is a Japanese original video animation produced by Tokuma Shoten in 1985. It was a collaboration between popular artist Yoshitaka Amano and director Mamoru Oshii. It features very little spoken dialogue, and its sparse plot and visual style have led to it being described as an "animated painting".

Parts of the film were used in the 1988 SF movie In the Aftermath.

Synopsis

Angel's Egg follows the life of an unnamed young girl living alone in an abandoned city. She cares for a large egg which she hides under her dress, protecting it while scavenging the decrepit Neo-Gothic/Art Nouveau cityscape for water and food. In a prologue, an unnamed soldier watches as an orb-shaped vessel, decorated with thousands of goddess-like sculptures, descends from the sky. Awakened by the orb's alarm, the girl begins her day of scavenging, but soon crosses paths with the soldier on a wide street traveled only by roving tanks. Frightened by the soldier, who carries a threatening cross-shaped device over his shoulder, the girl runs off down an alley. When she returns to investigate, the soldier has left. She resumes searching for food and glass bottles, avoiding the ominous figures of men clutching harpoons which scatter the cobbled streets.

Actors

Mako Hyōdō

(Girl (voice))
Jinpachi Nezu

(Man (voice))
Keiichi Noda
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