Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Scarlet’ Coming To U.S. Theaters In December 2025

Sony Pictures will release Mamoru Hosoda’s new film Scarlet in U.S. theaters on December 12, 2025.

Sony, which also co-produced the film with Hosoda’s Studio Chizu and Nippon TV, is handling global distribution, while Toho is distributing in Japan.

There are scant details about Scarlet, but it is said to be a film about a princess who can transcend time and space. It is Hosoda’s first movie since Belle, released in 2021. His other much-beloved productions include The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Wolf Children, The Boy and the Beast, and Mirai, the latter of which was nominated for an Oscar in 2019.

The timing of Scarlet’s release suggests that Sony may be taking a page from GKIDS’s rollout of Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, which was launched during the first half of December 2023 and went on to have both a spectacular box office and awards run, culminating with its Oscar win. The playbook could work particularly well for Hosoda, who remains to this day the only non-Ghibli Japanese filmmaker to be nominated for the animated feature Oscar.

Along with the date announcement, Sony released the first poster for Scarlet today: