Egg

Egg (2005)

A bored office worker sees a giant egg when she closes her eyes, and when it hatches, each blink unleashes escalating real-world horrors.

Date of release
2005-03-06
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Fantasy, Horror, Drama, Science Fiction, Comedy
Director
Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Casting

Interesting facts

Egg , stylized as EGG., is a 2005 Japanese science fiction psychological thriller horror comedy film written and directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi. The film stars Jo Hye-yeong as a woman who experiences visions of a giant mysterious egg when she closes her eyes. The film co-stars Inuko Inuyama, Jiro Sato and Megumi Ujiie. Egg was theatrically released by Slow Runner on March 26, 2005, in Japan.

Production

Director Tsutsumi made Egg in 2002, but it was not released until 2005. The film was shot on 35 mm. Former Miss Korea contestant Jo Hye-yeong was cast in the lead role. Daizaburo Harada, known for his work as CGI director of Swallowtail Butterfly, served as the film's VFX supervisor.

Years later, when asked about the origin of the project, Tsutsumi said, "I had been preparing a big film. It was to star Koji Yakusho, an adaptation of Ryū Murakami’s novel Exodus from Hopeless Japan (Kibō no Kuni no Exodus). We were planning to shoot in Thailand, it was quite a big-budget blockbuster film. But, for various reasons, it didn’t work out, and we suddenly found ourselves with a blank schedule for three months.

In addition, he said, "I did finish the script in one week, we did pre-production in ten days, and we shot the entire thing in two weeks. Egg is a kaiju film, and it’s quite hard to prepare a kaiju in ten days, but we somehow managed it."

In the same interview, Tsutsumi stated, "[...] I don’t quite understand why [Egg is] popular."

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