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Angel’s Egg
November 6th, 2009 | 
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Drama, Fantasy, Surrealism
Category: Movie
Year: December 22, 1985
Studio: Tokuma Shoten
Story: OSHII Mamoru, AMANO Yoshitaka
Screenplay: Mamoru Oshii
Directed by: Mamoru Oshii
Artist: Yoshitaka Amano
Running Time: Approx. 71 minutes
Synopsis
Angel’s Egg follows the daily life of a young girl in a surreal world of darkness and shadows.
The girl, whose name is not mentioned, is the keeper of a mysterious egg. She spends her time collecting bottles and artifacts in a gothic, dead city. A man, whose name also remains a mystery, arrives in the dark town one day riding a machine and wearing a cross-like weapon on his back. The two meet and talk, though their dialogue consists mostly of the single, repeated question “Who are you?”
Inside the girl’s vast cavernous “refuge”, which contains many strange fossils and her collection, the man tells the girl a tale similar to Noah’s Ark. He waits for the girl to fall asleep and breaks the egg. The girl reacts in anguish and follows the departing man, only to fall into a ravine of water and die. Her dying exhalation under the water blossoms into bubbles of “eggs” on the surface. A symbolic ending of apocalypse and rebirth is mixed with a gradual revelation of the story’s world, which is highly abstract and ambiguous.
Kakurenbo: Hide and Seek
Drama, Horror
Category: Movie
Year: September 1, 2004
Studio: Comix Wave Films
Written and Directed by: MORITA Shuuhei
Running Time: approx. 25 minutes
Licensed! – Central Park Media
Synopsis
Rumor has it that in a dark and ghostly town a dangerous game of hide and seek is played, called Otokoyo. It is also rumored that demons live in this town and that the kids that played the game in the past have never returned. Seven kids wearing fox masks decide to find out for themselves if these rumors are true, heading for the town to play the game themselves.
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