Sony Pictures Screens Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet Anime Film in North American Theaters on December 12

Sony Pictures has announced that it will screen Mamoru Hosoda’s new anime feature film Scarlet in North America on December 12, 2025. A new teaser visual and 30-second trailer for the film were also released.

The trailer also revealed that Scarlet will begin screening in Japanese theaters on November 21, 2025. It was previously announced that the film would debut sometime in “Winter 2025.”

Variety reports that Sony Pictures is co-producing and co-financing Hosoda’s latest anime film with Studio CHIZU (who are in charge of the animation production) and Nippon TV. The company was reported to be distributing the film globally earlier last year, while Toho is handling distribution in Japan. 

Meanwhile, Comic Natalie reported Hosoda as saying during Scarlet‘s announcement event that the film is in “neither 2D nor a Hollywood-style CG animation” and that its theme will tackle life and death, with action and romance elements included. 

Scarlet will be the newest anime feature film from Mamoru Hosoda, who most recently worked on Belle in 2021. His previous works include The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Wolf Children, The Boy and the Beast, and Mirai (which received a nomination for Best Animated feature at the Academy Awards). Besides The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars, most of his works have been animated at Studio CHIZU. 

Source: Studio CHIZU Official Twitter, Sony Pictures Official Twitter, Variety