父を殺され、復讐に失敗した王女・スカーレットは “死者の国”で目を覚ます。狂気にあふれたこの世界では、宿敵に復讐を果たし、“見果てぬ場所”に辿り着かなければ、〈虚無〉となり存在が消えてしまう。想像を超えた冒険。終わることなき闘い。時空を超えた運命の出会い。果てしなき旅路の先に、スカーレットは生きる道を見出せるのか？
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監督: 細田守
脚本: 細田守
音楽: 岩崎太整
撮影監督: 斉藤亜規子
制作会社: Studio Chizu / Nippon Television Network Corporation / Sony Pictures / Sony Pictures / KADOKAWA / TOHO
Based very loosely on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, this follows the perilous adventures of the princess “Scarlet” as she seeks retribution for the assassination of her kingly father by her uncle “Claudius”. He is aware that she is going to try something and so arranges for her to join him in the Land of the Dead. That plan doesn’t quite go to plan and though she ends up there, she is not yet consumed by it's nothingness. No sooner has she arrived than she encounters and allies with the confused young 21st century paramedic “Hijiri” and they both set about attempting to thwart the regicidal “Claudius” and his scheming wife “Gertrude”. The first thing I noticed watching this was how linear and two-dimensional the animation was. The backgrounds are uncomfortably static whilst the princess and her friend face many a foe, and there are too many rather bland music and dance numbers that really only serve to stagger this film’s already quite staccato pacing. Their adventures are presented in an curiously sterile and episodic fashion, almost emulating progressive gaming levels, and though there is an opportunity to develop both her and “Claudius” as characters, Mamoru Hisada seems to have decided to skip those stages and so leave us with something unfortunately undercooked. There are some action scenes now and again but they don’t really breathe enough life into this to raise it from the realms of the lacklustre. It’s watchable enough, but somewhat disappointing.
