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{{Nihongo|'''''Angel's Egg'''''|天使のたまご|Tenshi no Tamago}} is a [[Japan]]ese [[OVA]] produced by [[Tokuma Shoten]] in 1985. |
{{Nihongo|'''''Angel's Egg'''''|天使のたまご|Tenshi no Tamago}} is a [[Japan]]ese [[OVA]] produced by [[Tokuma Shoten]] in 1985. The film was a collaboration between popular artist [[Yoshitaka Amano]] and director [[Mamoru Oshii]]. It features almost no spoken dialogue, and its spare plot and visual style have led to it being described as an 'animated painting.' <ref name="Patten">{{cite book|last=Patten|first=Fred|title=Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews|year=2011|publisher=Stone Bridge Press, Inc.|location=Berkley, CA|isbn=978-1-61172-510-0}}</ref> |
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Parts of the film were used in the 1988 sci-fi movie, ''"In the Aftermath"''.<ref name="Ruh">{{cite book|last=Ruh|first=Brian|title=Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii|year=2004|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4039-6334-5}}</ref> |
Parts of the film were used in the 1988 sci-fi movie, ''"In the Aftermath"''.<ref name="Ruh">{{cite book|last=Ruh|first=Brian|title=Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii|year=2004|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4039-6334-5}}</ref> |
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| Directed by | Mamoru Oshii |
| Screenplay by | Mamoru Oshii |
| Story by | Yoshitaka Amano Mamoru Oshii |
| Cinematography | Shigeo Sugimura |
| Music by | Yoshihiro Kanno |
Production companies | |
Release date | December 15, 1985 |
Running time | 71 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Angel's Egg (天使のたまご, Tenshi no Tamago) is a Japanese OVA produced by Tokuma Shoten in 1985. The film was a collaboration between popular artist Yoshitaka Amano and director Mamoru Oshii. It features almost no spoken dialogue, and its spare plot and visual style have led to it being described as an 'animated painting.' [1]
Parts of the film were used in the 1988 sci-fi movie, "In the Aftermath".[2]
Plot
Angel's Egg follows the daily life of an unnamed young girl in a surreal world of darkness and shadows.
The girl is the keeper of a mysterious egg. She spends her time collecting bottles and artifacts in a gothic, abandoned city. An unnamed man arrives in the dark town one day riding a machine, wearing a cross-like weapon on his back and having bandaged hands. The two meet and talk, though their dialogue consists mostly of the single, repeated question "Who are you?"
Meanwhile, the shadows of giant coelacanths appear within the town, and then the many human statues which line it come to life and begin hunting the fishes with spears. This scares the girl and the man holds her protectively under his coat. The girl leads the man out the city toward a strange rock where she lives and they come across a carving of a strange tree. The man tells the girl that he has seen it before but is unable to remember where.
Inside the girl's vast cavernous "refuge", which contains many strange fossils and her collection, the man tells the girl the story of Noah's Ark, but changes the climax of that story: The water does not withdraw and the residents of the ark forgets that there once was a land beneth the waves. He waits for the girl to fall asleep and breaks the egg.
The girl reacts in anguish and follows the departing man, only to fall into a ravine of water and die. Her dying exhalation under the water blossoms into bubbles of "eggs" on the surface. The film ends with the man standing alone on a desolate beach as a strange machine rises from the ocean carrying a statue of the girl and ascends for the heavens as the "world" being revealed as a settlement on the edge of a large vessel floating through an endless sea, though this is not elaborated upon.
Cast & characters
Girl
The young girl portrays innocence in a world of darkness. She lives in an abandoned planetarium and guards the mysterious egg, a focal point of the movie. The girl, who lives alone, collects water in bottles, watching as bubbles within them rise to the top. Voiced by: Mako Hyōdō
Man
The man is portrayed as a Christ or an Antichrist-like figure (it varies with every interpretation), carrying a cross-sword on his back and wearing bandages on his hands. He tries to protect the young girl when he meets her, but ultimately steals and breaks the egg she keeps. Voiced by: Jinpachi Nezu
Music
The music in Angel's Egg was composed by Yoshihiro Kanno who seldom composed film scores.
Response
Angel's Egg did not do well with audiences or critics on its release[citation needed], but it has since been regarded as a cult classic and, by some, as one of the greatest anime films of all-time.[citation needed] The film currently has an audience rating of 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.[3]
References
- ^ Patten, Fred (2011). Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews. Berkley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, Inc. ISBN 978-1-61172-510-0.
- ^ Ruh, Brian (2004). Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6334-5.
- ^ [1]
Further reading
- Ruh, Brian. 2004. Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6334-5