Film · 1985
Angel’s Egg
天使のたまご
A girl carries an egg through a city partly submerged in water, believing that an angel waits inside. A boy searching for a bird from his dreams joins her. As they explore the ruins, his curiosity about the egg puts their fragile new friendship under pressure.
The film brings together Mamoru Oshii's writing and direction with Yoshitaka Amano's ink-painting style. Their hand-drawn fantasy connects questions of faith with the shapes and textures of its imagined world. The collaboration offers a way into the film through its images, alongside the uncertainty surrounding the girl and the egg.
The two travellers carry very different objects through the same ruined world. The girl protects an egg, while the boy bears a long, cross-shaped weapon. A scene places the egg in his hands as she watches, their small figures surrounded by worn stone and a dark doorway. The fragile object gives their encounter a visible point of tension, leaving his intentions and the meaning of their new companionship uncertain.
Standalone OVA · Approx. 71 min · one film
Mamoru Oshii’s original 1985 standalone OVA (original video animation), presented here as one film; later restorations are editions of the same work.