Angel's Egg is a Japanese anime feature film produced by Tokuma Shoten in 1985. A collaboration between popular artist Yoshitaka Amano and director Mamoru Oshii, it uses almost no dialogue, making it a commonly cited example of progressive anime. Parts of the film were used in the 1988 Australian sci-fi movie, "In the Aftermath". 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 alive and begin hunting the fishes with spears. This scares the girl and the man holds her protectively under his long 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.
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| Release date: | December 22, 1985 |
| Directed by: | Mamoru Oshii |
| Runtime: | 71 Minutes |