Angel's Egg

Name: Angel's Egg
Genre: Mystery, Fantasy, Animation
Released: 1985-12-22
Duration: 71 min
Rating: 5
Cast: Jinpachi Nezu, Keiichi Noda, Mako Hyodo

Under a sky where clouds make sound as they move.

Rating

5.0 (1)

Release Date

12/22/1985

Runtime

71 mins

Genres

Mystery Fantasy Animation

Overview

In a desolate and dark world full of shadows, lives one little girl who seems to do nothing but collect water in jars and protect a large egg she carries everywhere. A mysterious man enters her life... and they discuss the world around them.

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

Revenue

Homepage

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How It Feels

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A haunting meditation on faith and meaning, rendered in luminous gothic imagery. Two solitary figures navigate a dying world through cryptic conversation, leaving viewers to wrestle with what it all might mean.

Mood

MelancholicContemplativeUnsettlingWistful

Themes

FaithMortalityIsolationMemory

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

PainterlyHigh-contrastStylized genre

Structure

Two-hander

Keiichi Noda

Narrator (voice)

Mako Hyodo

Girl (voice)

Jinpachi Nezu

Man (voice)

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

Aug 27, 2026

a world where a future seems impossible so the people in it grasp to anything that only slightly resembles one.
beautifully dystopia and mamoru oshii's mind is able to create such a strong world and characters all in just 71 min.
(watch my new feature film https://boxd.it/cQ1mBp )