IFFR 2000

A pregnant young woman roams through an empty, post-industrial medieval landscape. A young soldier, whose musket has the shape of a cross, gives the girl a giant egg to hatch. But what is given can also be taken away...

Oshii Mamoru focus

Angel's Egg

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Meikyu bukken: file 538

The mysterious and elusive computer hacker The Puppet Master turns up in Hong Kong in 2029. Fine animation and complex social vision go hand in hand, in a spectacular Anime that prefers cybernetic abstraction to difficult exposé.

Kokaku kidotai

Directed by Oshii Mamoru's protégé Okiura Hiroyuki, animation coordinator of Ghost in the Shell, Jin-Roh offers a unique mixture of retro-science fiction and fairytale with a sting in the tail, in the best anime of recent years.