Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth
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| Directed by |
Hideaki Anno Masayuki Kazuya Tsurumaki |
| Produced by | Mitsuhisa Ishikawa |
| Written by | Hideaki Anno |
| Starring |
Megumi Ogata Megumi Hayashibara Yūko Miyamura Kotono Mitsuishi |
| Music by | Shiro Sagisu |
| Cinematography | Hisao Shirai Yōichi Kuroda |
| Edited by | Sachiko Miki |
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| Distributed by | Toei Company |
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101 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | ¥1.1 billion |
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン 劇場版 DEATH & REBIRTH シト新生 Shin seiki Evangerion Gekijō-ban: Shi to Shinsei?), romanized in Japan as Evangelion: Death and Rebirth, is a 1997 Japanese animated science fiction film. It is the first film in the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise and it consists of two parts, Death and Rebirth, separated by a short intermission. It was released, along with the follow-up, The End of Evangelion, in response to the success of the TV series and a strong demand by fans for another ending. It has since been re-edited and re-released several times.
The first part, Death, is a 70-minute-long edit of the first 24 episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion in the form of a clip show, with additional footage not seen in the original broadcast. (The footage would later be integrated into the Japanese Laserdisc and the American and European Platinum Collection releases of the series, as "Director's Cut" versions of episodes 21-24.)
The second part, Rebirth, consists of 27 minutes of entirely new animation that would eventually form the first third of the film The End of Evangelion, released four months later. Because of time constraints, Rebirth only covers the initial preparations of the Human Instrumentality Project and the invasion of the Geofront by the JSSDF, ending with the arrival of the Mass Production Evas. (In The End of Evangelion, the final version of episode 25 concludes with the end of Asuka's fight with the Mass Production Evas.)
Between March and October 1997, Death and Rebirth grossed 1.1 billion yen.
On July 26, 2005, Manga Entertainment released Death and Rebirth and The End of Evangelion together in the United States as a two-disc set.
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