40th anniversary remaster to screen at festival’s Cinéma de la Plage on May 20
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The 78th Cannes International Film Festival announced on Thursday that it will screen the 4K remaster of Mamoru Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano’s 1985 anime Angel’s Egg (Tenshi no Tamago) at the festival’s Cinéma de la Plage on May 20. It will be the first screening of the 4K remaster in the world. The Cinéma de la Plage event is a nightly event that screens films at the Plage Macé beach along the Promenade de la Croisette road.
This year’s festival is taking place in France from May 13 to May 24.
France-based Gebeka International acquired the worldwide sales rights to the 4K remaster in May 2024.
The remaster is based on a new scan of a 35mm film negative of the anime.
The Angel’s Egg original video anime (OVA) debuted in Japan in 1985. Oshii directed the OVA at Studio DEEN. Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano conceived the story, and Oshii wrote the screenplay and directed. Amano also handled the art direction. Hiroshi Hasegawa, Masao Kobayashi, Mitsunori Miura, and Yutaka Wada produced the film. Yoshihiro Kanno composed the music.
The Japan Society hosted a screening of the film at its museum in New York City in September 2023. Prior to that 2023 screening by The Japan Society, the anime had not received a release in the West in its original form. Carl Colpaert’s live-action/animated 1987 film In the Aftermath spliced footage from the film.
Tokuma Shoten announced the remaster in May 2024. GKIDS will screen the 4K remaster in North America sometime this year.
Sources: Cannes, Mantan Web
