Overview

• Sony Pictures has announced a December 12, 2025, domestic release date for Mamoru Hosoda's animated feature, 'Scarlet.'
• The film tells the story of a brave princess who transcends time and space, continuing Hosoda's signature exploration of imaginative worlds and human themes.
• Sony Pictures is co-producing and co-financing the film alongside Studio Chizu and Nippon TV, with Toho overseeing theatrical distribution in Japan.
• 'Scarlet' marks the first collaboration between Sony Pictures and Studio Chizu, the animation studio co-founded by Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito in 2011.
• This release follows Hosoda's 2021 film 'Belle,' which premiered at Cannes and became his highest-grossing film, and builds on his Oscar-nominated success with 'Mirai.'