Several more additional cast members have been announced for Mamoru Hosoda’s latest upcoming anime film Scarlet. Sony Pictures will screen the film in the U.S. on December 12, 2025, after its premiere in Japan on November 21, 2025.
The new cast members for the film (spelling romanizations are unconfirmed) include:
- • Koji Yakusho as Claudius
- • Masachika Ichimura as Amleth
- • Kotaro Yoshida as Voltimand
- • Yuki Saito as Gertrude
- • Yutaka Matsushige as Cornelius
- • Kazuhiro Yamaji as Polonius
- • Tokio Emoto as Laertes
- • Munetaka Aoki as Rosencrantz
- • Shota Sometani as Guildenstern
- • Noa Shiroyama as Girl
- • Kayoko Shiraishi as Old Woman
Most of the newly announced additional characters all share the same names as characters from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet play.
They join a main cast that is headlined by Mana Ashida as the film’s main heroine, Scarlet, and Masaki Okada as Hijiri. Hosoda is directing and writing the film’s screenplay.
Variety reported that Sony Pictures is co-producing and co-financing Hosoda’s new anime film with Studio CHIZU, who is handling the film’s 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. The film’s story “centers on a princess who transcends time and space.”
Meanwhile, Comic Natalie quoted 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 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.
Sources: TOHO Official Twitter, Anime News Network, Crunchyroll News
