Scarlet
This PG-13 anime from Mamoru Hosoda (Belle, Mirai) is a bold gender-swapped reimagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet, following a princess who wakes in a dark afterlife realm on a quest for revenge — and it is a significant departure from Hosoda's gentler family films. The film carries a pacifist, forgiveness-forward message, but earns its MPAA rating for 'strong violence/bloody images' throughout.
Confident older tweens and teens (11+) who enjoy darker fantasy anime and can sit with heavy themes of grief, revenge, and mortality.
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Scarlet's descent into the Otherworld: drenched in red, she is pulled under by disembodied hands into a crushing mound of bodies while screaming — widely described as the film's most disturbing sequence.
A young Scarlet watches her father's public execution from a high balcony, then sees him facedown in a pool of blood — the film's emotional anchor for her trauma.
The king is surrounded by men with axes and killed before a bloodthirsty crowd; blood is visible on the ground.