Tenshi no Tamago

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Movie
Original title 天使 の た ま ご
tenshi no tamago
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year December 22, 1985
length 71 minutes
Rod
Director Mamoru Oshii
script Mamoru Oshii,
Yoshitaka Amano
production Hiroshi Hasegawa ,
Yutaka Wada
music Yoshihiro Kanno
cut Seiji Morita
synchronization

Tenshi no Tamago ( Japanese 天使 の た ま ご , eng. “The Angel's Egg”) is an anime film by Yoshitaka Amano and Mamoru Oshii , which has surrealist traits and almost entirely without language. The film is more of a work of art in which the images speak for themselves. It was produced by Tokuma Shoten and was released in 1985 .

action

A girl with long white hair strolls with an egg through a gloomy land in which there seem to be hardly any people. One day it hits a hiker. Only reluctantly, they join forces to hike to a kind of “Noah's Ark”. In the end, the girl loses the egg to the hiker.

The film lives from its images, nothing is explained and next to nothing is spoken. The only thing that counts are the images, which, combined with great orchestral music, inspire the viewer's imagination.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
girl Mako Hyoudou
walker Jinpachi Nezu
teller Keiichi Noda

In the aftermath

In 1988, the first directorial work by the Australian Carl Colpaert was the feature film "In the Aftermath", in which excerpts from Tenshi no Tamago with a total length of around 30 minutes were combined with real scenes.

It tells the story of a soldier in a post-apocalyptic world who first loses a comrade and later comes across a doctor and an enigmatic girl with an egg in an abandoned factory.

The anime sequences from Tenshi no Tamago were re- edited in arbitrary order (with numerous action and connection errors) and poorly combined with real-life scenes of inferior quality. The entire cast of the real film components consisted of five actors and three extras, and for many members of the film crew “In the Aftermath” was the first (and in many cases the only) contact with the film industry.

Due to the existing licensing relationships for “In the Aftermath”, Tenshi no Tamago has not yet been released in the original anime version outside of Asia.

In Germany, “In the Aftermath” was released in 1988 on VHS under the title “After Rabbit - Escape from the Future” . The German title is supposed to allude to the American feature film Wrong Game with Roger Rabbit , which was produced in the same year and which also combines real and animated elements.

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