The director oversaw the remake of the 1985 film
GKIDS announced Wednesday that it has acquired the North American rights to Mamori Oishii's Angel Egg. The company will bring the all-new 4K remake of the film overseen by director Oshii to US theaters in 2025 in celebration of its 40th anniversary.
Image via GKIDS Twitter Account
Update: GKIDS will also release the film on home video.
The company describes the film's story:
In an underwater city, a young girl cares for a large egg that she carefully holds in her hands – a treasure she believes is the Angel's Egg. A boy with a gun comes looking for the bird he saw in his dream. At first, it seemed like sympathy was developing between the two. Then, one night, the boy crushed her precious egg.
France-based Gebeka International acquired the worldwide sales rights to the 4K remaster of Mamoru Oshii's Tokuma Shoten and Yoshitaka Amano's 1985 anime Angel's Egg (Tenshi no Tamago) on May 10.
The remaster is based on a new scan of the 35mm film print of the anime.
The Angel's Egg original animation (OVA) debuted in Japan in 1985. Oshii directed the OVA at Studio DEEN. Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano conceived the story, and Oshii wrote the script and directed it. Amano is also in charge of art direction. Hiroshi Hasegawa, Masao Kobayashi, Mitsunori Miura and Yutaka Wada produced the film. Yoshihiro Kanno composed the music.
The Japan Society held a screening of the film at their museum in New York City on September 10.
Before last year's Japan Society screening of the film, the anime had not been released in the West in its original form. Carl Colpaert's 1987 live-action/animated film In the Aftermath features scenes from the film.
Update: Added information about home video release. Thanks, FireChick. Source: GKIDS Twitter account
Source: GKIDS