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The trailer’s release on August 1 coincides with the day that Hosoda’s Summer Wars<\/a> film premiered in Japan in 2009.<\/p>\n \u00a9 2025 \u30b9\u30bf\u30b8\u30aa\u5730\u56f3<\/p>\n The film will open<\/a> in Japan on November 21, and in U.S. theaters on December 12.<\/p>\n The 82nd Venice International Film Festival will screen<\/a> the world premiere. The event will take place from August 27-September 6 at Venice Lido, Italy. The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) will screen<\/a> the North American premiere at the 50th annual event as a Special Presentation.<\/p>\n The film centers on a strong princess named Scarlet who crosses space-time to enact revenge. Her father, the king, was murdered, and after her attempt at vengeance failed, she wakes up in “The Land of the Dead” which is brimming with madness. If one does not exact revenge on one’s nemesis and end up here in this “place for the unfulfilled,” they become “nothing” and disappear. The story follows Scarlet’s boundless journey of vengeance.<\/p>\n Mana Ashida<\/a> stars as the princess Scarlet and Masaki Okada<\/a> as Hijiri, a nurse from modern Japan.<\/p>\n The cast also includes:\n<\/p>\n Many of these characters share the same names as characters in William Shakespeare<\/a>‘s tragedy play Hamlet.<\/p>\n Hosoda is directing the film and writing the screenplay, and is also credited for the original work. Hosoda stated the film is not 2D animation or “Hollywood-style CG,” and he is aiming for a completely new look. Hosoda also stated the film will have a different feel to his past works, and will also have action and romance elements. He added that the film is based on a “global classic.”<\/p>\n The film’s producer Y\u016bichir\u014d Sait\u014d<\/a> stated the film will have worldwide distribution. TOHO is releasing the film in Japan, while Sony Pictures<\/a> is releasing the film outside Japan. Sony Pictures has also invested in the film.<\/p>\n Comic Natalie<\/a> noted<\/a> that since The Girl Who Leapt Through Time<\/a>, Hosoda’s films have previously opened in Japan in summer, but this new film will open in winter. Sources: Scarlet film’s website<\/a>, Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Film opens in Japan on November 21, U.S. on December 12 TOHO began streaming on Friday a trailer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-39757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Scarlet\"](\"\/thumbnails\/max300x600\/cms\/news.8\/226277\/scarlet.jpg\")
Image via Scarlet film’s website<\/a><\/p>\n
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