Special preview: Angel’s Egg

+ recorded introduction

Tenshi no tamago

Now recognised as a landmark work of animation, Mamoru Oshii’s cryptic and mesmerising experimental allegory Angel’s Egg is perhaps his most personal work and a crucially important film in anime history.

  • Director

    Mamoru Oshii

  • With

    Mako Hyôdô,Jinpachi Nezu,Keiichi Noda

  • Japan 1985. 72min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    12A

  • Japanese with English subtitles

In an underwater city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms. A boy with a gun arrives in search of a bird he saw in his dream. At first, it seems as if feelings of sympathy are developing between the two.

Forty years after the film’s original release, we present an all-new 4K restoration of the film, supervised by director Mamoru Oshii.

The film is a creative collaboration between acclaimed director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell), who wrote and directed the feature, and revered artist Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy, Vampire Hunter D). The film beautifully intertwines Oshii’s thematic reflections on philosophy and theology with Amano’s distinctive ink painting style, culminating in an arrestingly beautiful hand-drawn allegorical fantasy seen for the first time in a stunning new 4K restoration on the largest screen in the UK.

Enjoy a special recorded introduction from TV presenter and author Dr Jonathan Clements before the film.