Remaster celebrates 40 years with new scans of 35mm film prints
Tokuma Shoten announced on Wednesday that it is producing a 4K remaster of Mamoru Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano's 1985 anime Angel's Egg (Tenshi no Tamago). The remaster is based on a new scan of the 35mm film print of the anime. The announcement did not reveal how the final remaster will be presented, such as through mock screenings or home video releases.
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Oshii himself is overseeing the remake, which celebrates the anime's upcoming 40th anniversary.
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 Association held a screening of the film at the museum in New York City on September 10 last year. The Japan Association describes the story:
Taking place in a seemingly quiet period of time, two nameless strangers—a girl carrying a mystical egg and a man with a crucifixion stick—journey through the primordial realm of the decadent, primitive ruins. fish and fossil remains. A fantasy rich with symbolism and biblical allusions, Oshii's beautifully melancholic OVA ruminates on the tragic foundations of existence in a world without God.
Before last year's Japan Society screening, the anime had not received a Western release in its original form. Carl Colpaert's 1987 live-action/animated film In the Aftermath features scenes from the film.
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