Made in collaboration with storied illustrator Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy), Oshii’s lyrical animated allegory, rich in Biblical allusions and parsimonious in spoken dialogue, follows a young girl traveling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic cityscape, placing all of her hopes for the future in her most treasured possession: an egg that she fervently believes will eventually hatch an angel, soon to draw unwanted attention from the boy who becomes her lone companion. A work of bewildering beauties and insoluble hermeneutic mysteries, upon its release Angel’s Egg cemented Oshii’s reputation as the author of frustratingly “difficult” OVA anime works, much to his professional disadvantage, though its reputation has only towered higher with each passing year, raffirmed by a new 4K restoration of the film supervised by Oshii himself.