In the ruins of a strange city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms. She bonds with a boy who is searching for a bird he saw in a dream.
Cinematography
Every frame could hang in a gallery. Yoshitaka Amano's gothic vision haunts.
Direction
Oshii made this after leaving a cult. It shows in every bleak, beautiful choice.
Sound
Yoshihiro Kanno's score barely exists—and that's the point. Silence screams here.
Director
Mamoru Oshii
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Oshii wrote this after leaving his Christian cult, wrestling with lost faith through pure visual metaphor. The entire film is his breakup letter to God.
Studio Gainax nearly went bankrupt funding this. It bombed so hard they made Dragon Ball Z ads to survive—and that failure birthed Evangelion's entire aesthetic.
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