Before he helmed the first anime film adaptation of Ghost in the Shell , director Mamoru Oshii made his own original works, including Angel’s Egg . The film turns 40 years old later this year, and to celebrate, distributor GKids is bringing it to North American theaters for the first time.

Beginning November 19, theaters across the country will put a 4K restoration of the movie on the big screen. Created by Oshii and character designer Yoshitaka Amano, the post-apocalyptic film stars a young girl safeguarding an egg and a young boy with mysterious dreams about a bird. The movie was notably Oshii’s first original work—and has themes that would stick around in his later works—and has very little spoken dialogue. At the time, audiences didn’t fully connect with it because of its bi

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