GKIDS Resurrects Mamoru Oshii’s Masterpiece: Angel’s Egg Flies into Theatres in New 4K Restoration

GKIDS, the Academy Award®-winning distributor of world-class animation, has announced that it will bring Mamoru Oshii’s seminal 1985 classic, Angel’s Egg, to North American cinemas for the first time in a nationwide theatrical release. The rarely screened feature is set to return to the big screen on November 19, 2025, forty years after its original Japanese debut.

The upcoming release is a brand-new 4K restoration of the film, supervised by director Oshii himself. This restoration allows audiences to experience the full visual splendor of the creative collaboration between Oshii, who wrote and directed the feature, and revered artist Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy, Vampire Hunter D).

The film is celebrated for its distinctive hand-drawn style, which beautifully blends Oshii’s philosophical and theological themes with Amano’s recognizable ink painting aesthetic, creating an arrestingly beautiful hand-drawn allegorical fantasy.

Originally released directly to home video in 1985, Angel’s Egg is a largely dialogue-free, surreal tale. The synopsis provided by GKIDS offers a glimpse into its haunting narrative:
In an underwater city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms—a treasure that she believes is an angel’s egg. A boy with a gun arrives in search of a bird he saw in his dream. At first it seems as if feelings of sympathy are developing between the two. Then, one night, the boy crushes her precious egg.