Scarlet

From visionary director Mamoru Hosoda comes Scarlet, a sweeping fantasy epic where grief, vengeance, and time itself collide in a world suspended between life and death. Scarlet, a sword-wielding princess from a ruined medieval kingdom, sets out to avenge the murder of her father—only to fail, falling mortally wounded into a mysterious Otherworld where memory, history, and possibility blur into one endless landscape. There, surrounded by spectral ruins and impossible horizons, she meets a young man from the present day whose compassion begins to challenge everything her rage has taught her to believe.

As Scarlet continues her journey through this shifting realm, every encounter pushes her deeper into a confrontation not only with her father’s killer, but with the cost of carrying hatred beyond death itself. Hosoda transforms a revenge tale into something dreamlike and elemental: a visually ravishing odyssey where sword fights unfold beside collapsing worlds, and where every step forward asks whether forgiveness can exist after unimaginable loss. Inspired in part by Hamlet, the film balances mythic scale with emotional intimacy, building toward a final reckoning that is as philosophical as it is thrilling.