Once Upon a Crime is a 2023 Japanese fantasy comedy crime mystery film, starring Kanna Hashimoto and Yuko Araki in the main roles as Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella, respectively. Based on the novel Red Riding Hood: A Detective Story by Aito Aoyagi and directed by Yūichi Fukuda, the story combines elements from the stories of Cinderella and the Little Red Riding Hood, as the latter uses her investigative skills to try to solve the mystery behind a murder. The film was released worldwide on Netflix on September 14, 2023.
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Premise
Little Red Riding Hood meets Cinderella in the woods. Together, they meet two witches and express their desire to go to the ball at the castle. The witches give them new dresses, glass slippers and a carriage driven by a mouse turned into a man. On their way to castle, they run over a corpse and, taking a closer look, Little Red Riding Hood exercises her detective skills. They hide the corpse and proceed to the ball, where Cinderella has a dance with the prince until guards report the discovery of the corpse.
Cast
Kanna Hashimoto as Little Red Riding Hood
Yuko Araki as Cinderella
Takanori Iwata as Prince Gilbert
Natsuna Watanabe as Anne (Cinderella's sister in a green dress)
Yumi Wakatsuki as Margot (Cinderella's sister in a yellow dress)
Miki Maya as Isabella (Cinderella's step-mother)
Midoriko Kimura as Barbara the witch
Mirei Kiritani as Tekla the witch
Tsuyoshi Muro as Paul the mouse
Masaki Kaji as Hans, the royal hairdresser
Jiro Sato as King Bovell of the kingdom of Claire de Lune
Mizuki Yamamoto as Karen/Remi
Tomoharu Hasegawa as Lord Chamberlain, herald to the King
Atsuhiro Inukai as the staircase guard
