Belle (2021 film)

Belle
Belle
	Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	竜とそばかすの姫
Literal meaning	The Dragon and the Freckled Princess
Revised Hepburn
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime
Directed by	Mamoru Hosoda
Written by	Mamoru Hosoda
Produced by	Nozomu Takahashi; Yuichiro Saito; Toshimi Tanio; Genki Kawamura;
Starring	Kaho Nakamura; Ryō Narita; Shōta Sometani; Tina Tamashiro; Lilas Ikuta; Kōji Yakusho; Takeru Satoh;
Edited by	Shigeru Nishiyama
Music by	Taisei Iwasaki; Ludvig Forssell; Yuta Bandoh; Miho Sakai;
Production; company	Studio Chizu
Distributed by	Toho
Release dates	July 15, 2021 (Cannes); July 16, 2021 (Japan);
Running time	121 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	$64.7 million

Belle (竜とそばかすの姫, Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime; literally The Dragon and the Freckled Princess) is a 2021 Japanese animated science fantasy film written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda and produced by Studio Chizu. The story is inspired by the 1756 French fairytale Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont as well as the 1991 Disney animated film.

Belle had an acclaimed premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The film was additionally dubbed into foreign languages (English, Chinese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Greek, German and Polish). It was released theatrically in Japan on July 16, 2021. Belle is the third-highest-grossing Japanese film of 2021, accounting for ¥6.53 billion in box-office rankings as of December 12, 2021.