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Scarlet (2025)

Runtime: 112 min
Release date: 21/11/2025
Production countries: Japan, United States of America
Production companies: Studio Chizu, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Sony Pictures, Sony Pictures, KADOKAWA, TOHO
Overview
After failing to avenge her father's murder, Princess Scarlet, wakes up in the"Land of the Dead." In this world filled with madness, if she does not achieve her revenge against her nemesis and reach the"No End Place," she will become"Void" and cease to exist. Can Scarlet find a way to live at the end of her endless journey?
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Mamoru Hosoda
Director & Screenwriter
Cast
Mana Ashida profile photo
Mana Ashida
as Scarlet (voice)
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Masaki Okada
as Hijiri (voice)
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Yutaka Matsushige
as Cornelius (voice)
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Kotaro Yoshida
as Voltemand (voice)
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Koji Yakusho
as Claudius (voice)
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Duration: 01:07
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Duration: 01:03
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Reviews
Author: Geronimo1967
Based very loosely on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, this follows the perilous adventures of the princess “Scarlet” as she seeks retribution for the assassination of her kingly father by her uncle “Claudius”. He is aware that she is going to try something and so arranges for her to join him in the Land of the Dead. That plan doesn’t quite go to plan and though she ends up there, she is not yet consumed by it's nothingness. No sooner has she arrived than she encounters and allies with the confused young 21st century paramedic “Hijiri” and they both set about attempting to thwart the regicidal “Claudius” and his scheming wife “Gertrude”. The first thing I noticed watching this was how linear and two-dimensional the animation was. The backgrounds are uncomfortably static whilst the princess and her friend face many a foe, and there are too many rather bland music and dance numbers that really only serve to stagger this film’s already quite staccato pacing. Their adventures are presented in an curiously sterile and episodic fashion, almost emulating progressive gaming levels, and though there is an opportunity to develop both her and “Claudius” as characters, Mamoru Hisada seems to have decided to skip those stages and so leave us with something unfortunately undercooked. There are some action scenes now and again but they don’t really breathe enough life into this to raise it from the realms of the lacklustre. It’s watchable enough, but somewhat disappointing.Based very loosely on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, this follows the perilous adventures of the princess “Scarlet” as she seeks retribution for the assassination of her kingly father by her uncle “Claudius”. He is aware that she is going to try something and so arranges for her to join him in the Land of the Dead. That plan doesn’t quite go to plan and though she ends up there, she is not yet consumed by it's nothingness. No sooner has she arrived than she encounters and allies with the confused young 21st century paramedic “Hijiri” and they both set about attempting to thwart the regicidal “Claudius” and his scheming wife “Gertrude”. The first thing I noticed watching this was how linear and two-dimensional the animation was. The backgrounds are uncomfortably static whilst the princess and her