Kodoani.com – 4K remastered version of the OVA Angel's Egg classic, written and directed by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in The Shell director), will be produced to celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2025.
As Oshii's first original OVA work and a collaboration with world-renowned illustrator Yoshitaka Amano, Angel's Egg was released from Tokuma Shoten in Japan on December 15, 1985. In addition to the collaboration Regarding the original concept with Oshii, Amano was also in charge of art direction, including character design, visual palette, background art, and colors.
The 71-minute OVA is a pioneering and fantasy work based on the Noah's Ark episode in the Book of Genesis in the Bible, featuring only two main characters – Boy (voiced by Jinpachi Nezu) and Girl (voiced by Jinpachi Nezu) by Mako Hyodo).
The story is about a young girl holding an egg in her hand in a flooded city. She believes it is an angel's egg. One day, she met a boy carrying a big gun and said he was looking for a “bird” he had seen in a dream. In an abandoned town, a faint sympathy seemed to have developed between the two, but one night, the boy crushed the girl's egg – and the girl's egg was also crushed.
Under the supervision of director Oshii himself, the original 35mm film print will be scanned and re-edited in 4K format using the latest technology.