One More IMAX Trailer for Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Scarlet’ Anime Movie
by Alex Billington
January 20, 2026
Source: YouTube
“Awe-inspiring. Transcends time and space.” Sony Pictures debuted an extra IMAX trailer for the new film Scarlet from director Mamoru Hosoda (of the films The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Wolf Children, The Boy and the Beast, Mirai, Belle). This anime initially premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival last year and first opened in US theaters in December. It’s now getting a special IMAX re-release this February. Hosoda’s Scarlet follows the story of a brave princess who transcends time and space. Also known as Scarlet Without Limits or Endless Scarlet in Japan, is an isekai-adjacent tale about a princess named Scarlet, voiced by Mana Ashida (from Children of the Sea). After her father, the king, is murdered, she leaps across space & time to get revenge. But finds herself in the “Land of the Dead”, where those who fail to fulfill quests for vengeance risk disappearing into nothingness. On her quest, she meets a modern-day Japanese man named Hijiri (voiced by Masaki Okada) – it’s a whole new spin on Hamlet. If you missed this on the big screen in December, then here is one more thrilling chance to watch this on an IMAX screen.
Here’s the new IMAX trailer #2 (+ IMAX poster) for Mamoru Hosoda’s film Scarlet, direct from YouTube:
You can rewatch the first teaser trailer for Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet film right here for the first look again.
Scarlet (voiced by Mana Ashida), a princess who failed to avenge her father’s murder, wakes up in the “Land of the Dead.” In this world full of madness, if she does not take revenge on her nemesis and reach “The Endless Place,” she’ll be reduced to “Emptiness” & cease to exist. An adventure beyond imagination. A never-ending struggle. A fateful encounter that transcends time and space. Can Scarlet find a way to live at the end of her endless journey? Scarlet, also known as 果てしなきスカーレット in Japanese or Endless Scarlet, is written and directed by acclaimed Japanese animation filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda, director of the anime movies Digimon: The Movie, One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Wolf Children, The Boy and the Beast, Mirai, and Belle previously, as well as “Samurai Champloo”. Produced by Yûichirô Saitô, Nozomu Takahashi, Toshimi Tanio. Studio Chizu, Nippon TV, and Sony Pictures. This initially premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival last fall. Sony will re-release Hosoda’s Scarlet in IMAX theaters starting on February 6th, 2026 coming up. Still looks good?
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