Joseph Luster
April 29, 2025 
Following up on the December 2024 announcement, a teaser trailer is here for Mamoru Hosoda’s next anime film, Scarlet. Known as Hateshinaki Scarlet in Japan, the film is due out on November 21, 2025—with U.S. screenings to follow on December 12—and you can see a brief sample below.
Scarlet Teaser Trailer
Here’s how the official website describes it, as translated by Crunchyroll News:
Scarlet, a princess who failed to avenge her father’s murder, wakes up in the “Land of the Dead.” In this world full of madness, if she does not take revenge on her nemesis and reach “The Endless Place,” she will be reduced to “Emptiness” and cease to exist.
An adventure beyond imagination.
A never-ending struggle.
A fateful encounter that transcends time and space.
Can Scarlet find a way to live at the end of her endless journey?
And here are some comments from Hosoda:
I came up with the idea for this film around March 2022.
In 2021, there was the coronavirus pandemic, and I thought the world was united against the coronavirus. However, in 2022, just as that was about to end, wars broke out all over the world, and I had the sense that the world had suddenly changed for the worse. Every day we learn about the collapse of what we thought was our daily life in the news. I was shocked to realize that the world in which I live, the world in which I spend my time, and the peace that I live in today are very fragile.
People all over the world are searching for answers to the question of how to live in a world that is not peaceful. I don’t know if there is an answer or not, but everyone is desperately searching for an answer to how to resolve conflicts and how we can live in peace. I came up with the idea of “Scarlet” from the point where if we are going to make a film now, we should make a film to face such earnest feelings of all these people.
When I look at the events that are taking place in the world, I feel that we are in a situation where deep grudges and vengeance are being created one after another. If you “take revenge,” there will be “retaliation” for it. The chain never ends. We have to break out of this loop somewhere, but it is not an easy thing to do. If the protagonist in the film is cornered into a situation where she is forced to take revenge, or if we are cornered into a situation where we are forced to take revenge, what action should be taken? Even though we knew in our head that we needed to break the loop of “revenge,” loop, was it emotionally possible to do so? I felt like I was confronted with a task. So I decided to create a “revenge story.”
Source: Crunchyroll News
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