GKIDS’ 4K restoration of Angel’s Egg will stream on HBO Max March 1.

The 1985 film is written and directed by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell), who supervised the restoration.

Oshii collaborated with revered artist Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy, Vampire Hunter D) on the film.

Set in an underwater city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms – a treasure that she believes is an angel’s egg. A boy with a gun arrives in search of a bird he saw in his dream.

At first, it seems as if feelings of sympathy are developing between the two. Then, one night, the boy crushes her precious egg.

Jinpachi Nezu and Mako Hyōdō voice the boy and the girl, respectively, with Keiichi Nodaserving as narrator.