Angel's Egg (1985) on Netflix
NR19851h 11mAnimationDramaFantasy
A girl scavenges a desolate city, guarding a large egg she trusts will become an angel. A boy steps from a tank with a cross-shaped weapon, and she runs from him.
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- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb7.5/1018,149 votes
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Plot summary
In a primordial land of trees, strange technology, ruined buildings and a giant mechanical eye, a nameless girl scavenges a desolate city. She is the lone protector of a large egg, and she is certain that an angel will come out of it; she keeps the egg carefully in her arms. Restless shadows inhabit the abandoned gothic place near her lair. A nameless boy comes to the city as well, and he is looking for a bird that appeared to him in a dream. At their first meeting she runs away, and then he is gone. He carries a large cross-shaped weapon.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Angel's Egg (1985)
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- Mamoru Oshii first planned Angel's Egg as a comedy that opened with the girl stepping off a flying ark in front of a Japanese convenience store; after seeing Yoshitaka Amano's art he changed his mind and made it a pure fantasy film.
- Angel's Egg was acclaimed by critics and animation people in Japan when it came out, but it also got Mamoru Oshii labeled a director who made films hard to understand, so he was hired far less often for years, until he got involved with Patlabor.
- Angel's Egg was made without a definitive script: ideas were noted down such as "annunciation", "ark", "setting sun" and "a boy holding a cross riding a tank", turned straight into storyboards, then fitted together.
- Angel's Egg contains only 400 shots, where the typical animation of its era ran to roughly three times that number.
- The 71-minute OVA became the skeleton of Carl Colpaert's 1987 live-action independent film In the Aftermath, which intercuts its own scenes with footage from Angel's Egg and dubs over dialogue that is not in Oshii's film.
- Producer Toshio Suzuki wrote the project's documentation in a single night, but Oshii was displeased with it and never used it; the title Angel's Egg also came from Suzuki, while Oshii's own title was Aquatic City.
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