Scarlet (2025)
ActionAnimationDramaScience Fiction
Director: Mamoru Hosoda · Writer: Mamoru Hosoda
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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Director
Mamoru Hosoda
Cast
Mana Ashida
Scarlet (voice) 
Masaki Okada
Hijiri (voice) 
Yutaka Matsushige
Cornelius (voice) 
Kotaro Yoshida
Voltemand (voice) 
Koji Yakusho
Claudius (voice) 
Masachika Ichimura
Amulet (voice) 
Yuki Saito
Gertrude (voice) 
Shota Sometani
Guildenstern (voice) 
Munetaka Aoki
Rosencrantz (voice) 
Kazuhiro Yamaji
Polonius (voice) 
Tokio Emoto
Laertes (voice) 
Kayoko Shiraishi
(voice) User Reviews (1)
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 da…
