Angel's Egg

天使のたまご

"Under a sky where clouds make sound as they move."

AnimationFantasyMysteryScience Fiction

In the ruins of a strange city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms. She bonds with a boy who is searching for a bird he saw in a dream.

🎬 DirectorMamoru Oshii

📅 Release1985-12-22

🌍 CountryJapan

🗣 LanguageJapanese

🏢 StudioTokuma Shoten, Studio Deen

🗳 Votes598

🔥 Popularity4

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🎭 Cast

Keiichi Noda

Narrator (Voice)

Mako Hyodo

Girl (Voice)

Jinpachi Nezu

Man (Voice)

🎥 Crew

Director Mamoru Oshii

Producer Koki Miura

Editor Seiji Morita

Producer Hiroshi Hasegawa

Producer Yutaka Wada

Animation Director Yasuhiro Nakura

Executive Producer Yasuyoshi Tokuma

Director of Photography Juro Sugimura

Art Direction Shichiro Kobayashi

Screenplay Mamoru Oshii

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💬 Reviews

CinemaSerf ⭐ 7/10

Talk about a triumph for less is more. This is a simply gorgeous to watch story of an enigmatic, somewhat melancholic, young woman who wanders the streets carrying an egg as if she were incubating it under her dress. She reminds me of the girl from the "Les Miserables" posters - lost looking, bereft and alone as she pads the cobbles until, unexpectedly, she encounters an older lad who steps from a…