Angel's Egg

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Angel's Egg
DVD cover art
天使のたまご (Tenshi no Tamago)
Genre	Science fantasy[1]
Created by	Mamoru Oshii Yoshitaka Amano
Original video animation
Directed by	Mamoru Oshii
Produced by	Hiroshi Hasegawa Masao Kobayashi Kōki Miura Yutaka Wada
Written by	Mamoru Oshii
Music by	Yoshihiro Kanno
Studio	Studio Deen
Licensed by	NA: GKIDS
Released	15 December 1985
Runtime	71 minutes

Angel's Egg (Japanese: 天使のたまご, Hepburn: Tenshi no Tamago) is a Japanese art film original video animation (OVA) written and directed by Mamoru Oshii.^[2] Released by Tokuma Shoten on 15 December 1985,^[3] the film was a collaboration between artist Yoshitaka Amano and Oshii. The film stars two nameless characters, a young girl who protects an egg, who bonds with a boy who has a dream about a bird.^[4] It was the first original project by Oshii and carries themes found in his other works.^[5]

It features very little spoken dialogue and a story that is strongly allegorical which has led to many viewers being confused about the film's supposed meaning.^[2] The film uses Biblical allusions and has been described as a cult classic.^[6]