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4K Remaster of Mamoru Oshii's Angel's Egg Anime Reveals November 19 Screenings in N. America, New York Premiere at NYFF
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GKIDS announced on Thursday that it will screen the 4K remaster of Mamoru Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano's 1985 anime Angel's Egg (Tenshi no Tamago) on November 19. The company streamed a trailer:
The company also revealed that the film will get its New York premiere at the 63rd New York Film Festival (NYFF) in the "Revivals" category. This year's event takes place on September 26-October 13.
The 78th Cannes International Film Festival's Cinéma de la Plage screened the world premiere of the 4K remaster on May 20.
Spain's Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival will screen the 4K remaster at this year's event. The festival will take place from October 9-19 in Sitges, Spain.
Tokuma Shoten announced the remaster in May 2024. France-based Gebeka International acquired the worldwide sales rights to the 4K remaster in May 2024. GKIDS will also release the film on home video.
The remaster is based on a new scan of a 35mm film negative of the anime.
The Angel's Egg original video anime (OVA) debuted in Japan in 1985. Oshii directed the OVA at Studio DEEN. Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano conceived the story, and Oshii wrote the screenplay and directed. Amano also handled the art direction. Hiroshi Hasegawa, Masao Kobayashi, Mitsunori Miura, and Yutaka Wada produced the film. Yoshihiro Kanno composed the music.
HBO Max will add Angel's Egg starting on September 1 in a new partnership with GKIDS .
The Japan Society hosted a screening of the film at its museum in New York City in September 2023. Prior to that 2023 screening by The Japan Society, the anime had not received a release in the West in its original form. Carl Colpaert's live-action/animated 1987 film In the Aftermath spliced footage from the film.
