The First Teaser for Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet Promises Flashing Blades and Epic Adventure

Just a time aft Sony announced a stateside merchandise day for animated phantasy Scarlet—the latest from Oscar-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda (Mirai, Belle, The Boy and the Beast, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars)—we present person the archetypal teaser, a spot of selling aimed much astatine the hometown audience. That said, you don’t request to work Japanese to instrumentality successful the gorgeous visuals:

According to Variety, Scarlet “centers connected a brave princess who transcends clip and space,” and from the looks of it is mighty adept with a leaf to boot.

Hosoda’s archetypal diagnostic directing recognition was 2000’s Digimon: The Movie; successful 2019, his Mirai picked up an Oscar information for Best Animated Feature but mislaid to Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse. His 2021 release, Belle, was a captious smash worldwide, successful summation to being the third-highest-grossing Japanese movie that year.

Variety notes that Scarlet is the archetypal collaboration betwixt Sony Pictures and Studio CHIZU, which was co-founded by Hosoda successful 2011; Sony co-produced and co-financed the movie alongside Studio CHIZU and Nippon TV. While Toho volition enactment retired the movie successful Japan, Sony is bringing it to a worldwide release.

Scarlet hits U.S. theaters December 12.

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