The First Teaser for Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet Guarantees Flashing Blades and Epic Journey

Only a day after Sony introduced a stateside launch date for animated fantasy Scarlet—the newest from Oscar-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda (Mirai, Belle, The Boy and the Beast, The Lady Who Leapt By way of Time, Summer time Wars)—we now have the primary teaser, a bit of promoting aimed extra on the hometown viewers. That mentioned, you don’t must learn Japanese to absorb the attractive visuals:

In response to Variety, Scarlet “facilities on a courageous princess who transcends time and area,” and from the appears to be like of it’s mighty adept with a blade in addition.

Hosoda’s first function directing credit score was 2000’s Digimon: The Film; in 2019, his Mirai picked up an Oscar nomination for Greatest Animated Function however misplaced to Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse. His 2021 launch, Belle, was a important smash worldwide, along with being the third-highest-grossing Japanese movie that yr.

Selection notes that Scarlet is the primary collaboration between Sony Footage and Studio CHIZU, which was co-founded by Hosoda in 2011; Sony co-produced and co-financed the movie alongside Studio CHIZU and Nippon TV. Whereas Toho will put out the movie in Japan, Sony is bringing it to a worldwide launch.

Scarlet hits U.S. theaters December 12.

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