About Naruto
Naruto (Japanese: ナ ル ト) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. It tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, a young ninja who seeks recognition from his peers and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the leader of his village. The story is told in two parts: the first set in Naruto’s preteen years and the second in his teens. The series is based on two one-shot manga by Kishimoto: Karakuri (1995), which earned Kishimoto an honorable mention in Shueisha’s monthly Hop Step Award the following year, and Naruto (1997).
About Naruto Movies
The series was adapted into eleven films; the first three correspond to the first anime series, and the remaining eight correspond to the second series. The dates listed below are for the original Japanese release; all the films were released in English, usually no more than three years later.
Naruto Movies List
1. Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow (2004)
Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno watch a movie starring Yukie Fujikaze at a local theater. Kakashi Hatake has summoned them to watch him in preparation for his next mission: to prevent Yukie, who plays Princess Gale in the movies, from being captured during the production of her latest film. Yukie is later revealed to be Koyuki Kazahana, a princess from an island known as the Land of Snow. Doto Kazahana, who is revealed to be Koyuki’s uncle, was responsible for the murder of his father Sosetsu in a coup. During the filming of the film, Doto’s henchmen, clad in chakra armor, attempt to capture the princess, but Team 7 manages to delay the capture of the princess. Doto eventually captures Koyuki and kills her bodyguards, who reveal themselves in an attempt to protect and restore her rightful place as ruler of the Land of Snow. Naruto enters the ship to rescue the princess, only to be captured and forced to use a chakra drain device. Doto forces Koyuki to hand her a crystal necklace that her father had given her when she was young, thinking that this is a key that can unlock the hidden treasure that Sosetsu had left before stopping Koyuki and Naruto.
Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi infiltrate the fortress while Naruto and Koyuki escape captivity. They face Doto but he manages to capture the crystal necklace and flees with Koyuki. Naruto proceeds to follow Doto as the remaining members of Team 7 confront Doto’s henchmen. Kakashi takes revenge by defeating Doto’s henchman, Nadare Roga, while Sasuke and Sakura defeat the other two henchmen Fubuki Kakuyoku and Mizore Fuyukuma. Meanwhile, Doto discovers the hidden treasure to transform the island into the Land of Spring using a heat generator. Naruto faces him in a duel, but is overpowered as Sasuke uses his Chidori (千 鳥, literally “A Thousand Birds”) to weaken Doto’s armor. Soon after, Naruto unleashes his energy and uses his new seven-colored Rasengan Chakra, killing Doto and activating a mirror to transform the earth. As a consequence, Koyuki decides to claim her rightful place in royalty and even personally mentions with Team 7 that even in the life of royalty, her acting career will not end.
2. Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel (2005)
On a desolate beach, a night battle is fought between sand ninjas and bulky warriors in robot-like armor. Gaara and the group of sand ninjas win the game and when the remaining warriors begin to retreat into the ocean, they fire flares at night to reveal a large battleship waiting on shore.
Meanwhile, Naruto Uzumaki, Shikamaru Nara, and Sakura Haruno are on a mission to retrieve a lost pet ferret when they too are attacked by armored warriors, as well as a mysterious knight named Temujin. After a short battle, both Temujin and Naruto are knocked off a nearby cliff. Shikamaru and Sakura run to the edge to see if they can see their friend, when suddenly a huge machine, like a giant moving cathedral, cuts through the forest and stops not far away.
Naruto and Temujin wake up to find themselves in a moving caravan led by Kahiko and Emina. Fortunately, the ferret, Nerugui, has survived the fall and has grown fond of Temujin to the chagrin of Kahiko, who discovers that Naruto is the person who ordered the mission. Shikamaru investigates the cathedral and discovers a room full of capsules containing human beings. He witnesses that two people, Kamina and Ranke associated with Temujin, appear to activate the pods that humans appear to use to place souls in each armored soldier body.
Temujin leaves the caravan to return to his part with Naruto in tow. Back at the cathedral, Temujin introduces Naruto to a man named Master Haido. Haido informs Naruto and Temujin about the Gelel Stone, a mysterious and powerful mineral that controls the traveling caravan that the annihilated clan lost. Haido plans to obtain the stone to make the world at peace. Naruto and Temujin head to the beach, where Gaara defeats Ranke and Kamina flees, while Shikamaru and Sakura save Kahiko from Fugai. Temujin recalls his past memory, before Shikamaru restrains him and rejoins the others. They interrogate Temujin, but he and Kahiko leave the caravan. At the Gelel Mine, Naruto and his friends confront Haido for sacrificing someone. As Haido and Naruto chase Kahiko and Temujin under the platform elevator, Shikamaru, Sakura, and Kankuro defeat Kamina and Fugai. In the Chamber of Sealing, Haido informs Temujin that he killed his parents. After destroying the stone of Teumjin, Haido attempts to use his real power to kill him, but the sacrificing soldiers arrive to save the repentant Temujin. While Naruto uses the green and orange Rasengan (螺旋 丸, illuminated spiral sphere, manga in English: “Spiral Chakra Sphere”) to destroy the stone and defeat Haido, Naruto, Temujin and Kahiko discover that the mine loses control. Temujin uses the Time-Space Hole to destroy the mine and Naruto saves him.
During the credits, the recovered Temujin and the children set sail and say goodbye to Naruto and his allies.
3. Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom (2006)
Naruto Uzumaki, Kakashi Hatake, Sakura Haruno, and Rock Lee are assigned to protect Prince Hikaru Tsuki and his father Michiru.
While heading to the rich crescent-shaped island called Land of the Moon, the group arrives to reclaim the circus, where Hikaru befriends the rare saber-toothed tiger Chamu. After meeting Michiru’s ex-wife Amayo, Naruto saves Hikaru and Chamu from the storm. The group reaches the island, where the self-proclaimed King Shabadaba betrays them. Rock Lee first follows the Iga Bouga clan and learns a new jutsu. Korega helps the group escape from the castle to the cave, where they cry for Hikaru’s grandfather, Kakeru. On the shore, the group encounters three Shabadaba attendants, who kidnap and take Michiru back to the castle, where Shabadaba declares himself the richest person. The group uses the circus to infiltrate the palace and fight many soldiers in the courtyard. As Sakura and Lee defeat Kongō and Karenbana, Naruto and Hikaru save Michiru from falling and dying. After Ishidate petrifies Shadabada, Naruto uses the Crescent Moon Rasengan to defeat Ishidate.
As Michiru becomes the king of the island, Naruto, Kakashi, Sakura, and Lee return home.
4. Naruto Shippuden the Movie (2007)
The opening scene of the film shows Naruto fighting a monster, only to be killed by it. The setting dates back to a few days earlier, where a man named Yomi attacks a shrine, to retrieve the spirit of Mōryō, a demon who tried to destroy the world and create his “Kingdom of a Thousand Years”. As a body was missing, Yomi offered hers as a temporary substitute, until they could retrieve Mōryō’s original sealed in a different shrine.
The only threat to Mōryō’s plan was a priestess known as Shion, who could seal her spirit once more. He raises an army of stone from its slumber, to attack the rest of the world, while his 4 subordinates go to assassinate Shion. They are given special chakra creatures to enhance their strength.
To deal with the threat, Konohagakure sends many teams to stop the stone army. Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, Neji Hyūga, and Rock Lee are sent to protect Shion and bring her to the shrine where Mōryō’s body was sealed. They defend themselves from their 4 would-be assassins, who are exhausted in a failed attempt to kill Naruto. Shion tells Naruto about his upcoming death; Although initially skeptical, her assistant, Taruho, explains that Shion can see the future and that all events that happen in her visions are 100% true. As they head to the shrine, the group is ambushed once more by Yomi’s 4 subordinates and split into 2 teams. Lee kills his opponent by eating an alcoholic candy to get him into Drunk Fist mode, while Naruto keeps busy with his. Neji tells Sakura to escape with Shion, unaware that her 2 opponents are actually just 1 man and a puppet, to distract her and let the remaining ninja catch up with Sakura and Shion, Sakura receives an anesthetic jutsu from the remaining ninja. & Shion apparently dies.
5. Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Bonds (2008)
Enemy ninjas from the Land of Heaven arrive in Konoha and quickly set out to attack the village, committing an act of revenge for the devastating Leaf Village attack on Sky Country during the Second Great Ninja World War.
As Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Hinata Hyuga accompany Amaru and Doctor Shinnō back to their village, Sai and Shino Aburame destroy the base of the sky ninja’s ship. Orochimaru, now suffering from his expired body, orders Sasuke Uchiha to find a man who can help him perfect his reincarnation. In the now burning town, Amaru searches for the villagers, with a trap that apparently kills Doctor Shinnō. After Amaru recovers and regains his senses, the remaining allies continue to try to find the missing villagers.
After Hinata is separated from the team, Amaru is possessed by the Zero Tail monster, Reibi. Naruto almost transforms into a dragged beast state, but the seal suppresses the Nine-Tailed Fox chakra within him and Amaru resists Reibi’s power. At the floating fortress of Ancor Vantian, Naruto learns that the recovered Doctor Shinnō had betrayed them, using Amaru to investigate the power of darkness 15 years ago, as well as the village’s secret scroll. After Doctor Shinnō temporarily activates the Body Rebirth Technique, Naruto prevents Amaru from committing suicide and despite his memories.
Sasuke then appears and intervenes, telling the weakened Doctor Shinnō to help Orochimaru, but Doctor Shinnō refuses, giving the Reincarnation Jutsu Scroll to Sasuke before falling down a trapdoor. Naruto and Sasuke confront Shinnō, revealing that the giant cocoon is Zero-Tails and he transforms into a chakra-absorbing monster. After Sasuke releases the curse mark and Naruto the fox chakra, they overload Shinnō with charka, destroying him with the Lightning Blade and Tornado Rasengan. As the fortress no longer has power, Ancor Vantian falls. As several leaf ninjas attempt to infiltrate and destroy the fortress, Amaru, Hinata, and the liberated villagers prepare to leave.
After Naruto destroys the remaining fortress with the Rasengan (螺旋 丸, literally spiral sphere, manga in English: “Spiral chakra sphere”) and falls through the sky, Amaru rides on the glider to save him. They then land safely in Gamabunta.
Upon returning to the hideout and handing the scroll to Orochimaru, Sasuke continues training, reflecting on Naruto’s last words.
6. Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Will of Fire (2009)
In the possible outbreak of a Fourth Great Ninja World War, some ninjas with Kekkei Genkai abilities (血 継 限界, literally “lineage trait”) had disappeared from the land of Lightning, Earth, Water and Wind. Tierra del Fuego remains the only village that is not affected by these events, so people begin to suspect its role in these incidents, and rumors of a possible rebellion begin to circulate. With the other nations amassing troops on the borders of Tierra del Fuego and threatening an invasion, the Feudal Lord of Tierra del Fuego orders Tsunade to capture the true culprit and prove Konoha’s innocence, in case of failure, Earth. del Fuego will destroy the town to preserve world peace.
Hiruko is both a culprit for the missing ninja and a former friend of the legendary Sannin (Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade), who left the village long ago after developing the Chimera Technique, a Jutsu that allows the user to absorb both chakra and the Kekkei Genkai. from other ninjas. Based on Mount Shumi with his followers, Ichi, Ni and San, Hiruko uses a Jutsu to project himself into the skies over Konoha, announcing that he will obtain the Kekkei Genkai from Tierra del Fuego and will become immortal and invincible, he will instigate the Fourth Great Ninja World War and conquer the world. With Hiruko’s intention to use the power of a solar eclipse to carry out his plan, he begins a race to defeat him, as the time of the eclipse approaches.
7. Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Lost Tower (2010)
He was assigned a mission to capture a missing ninja named Mukade, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, Yamato, and Sai wielding chakra knives. In the ruins of the thousand-year-old desert city of Loran, they confront Mukade who attempts to dominate the Ninja World with the power of the Ryūmyaku (Ley Line), an ancient chakra that flows deep underground. Break the seal created by Minato Namikaze to unleash the power of the Ryūmyaku, creating a light that engulfs Naruto and Yamato, before Sai and Sakura ride an ink bird and attempt to escape.
Naruto and Yamato are sent twenty years into the past. When Naruto awakens from this temporary slip, he meets the queen of Loran, Sāra. It is later revealed that Mukade traveled to the last six years before Naruto and changed her name to Anrokuzan, the Loran minister who had killed Sāra’s mother, S Sramu. Naruto agrees to protect Sāra, after Anrokuzan testifies about the kidnapped citizens and believes to summon the “Ninja Puppet Forces”. Minato, Shibi Aburame, Chōza Akimichi, and Kakashi Hatake, on their own mission to stop Anrokuzan, appear to support the heroes. As they rescue Sara’s people and Naruto holds Minato’s kunai, Sāra recalls her memory about Sēramu’s lullaby. Anrokuzan uses the tower parts to become a giant defensive puppet. Minato and Naruto use their regenerative chakra enough to create the legendary Super Rasengan. After Sāra disables Anrokuzan’s technique, Minato exposes Anrokuzan’s weak point and Naruto destroys it. While Yamato and Kakashi rescue Naruto and Sāra, Minato uses the kunai to completely seal the power. Just when the heroes disappear from the past, Minato asks Naruto not to change the story by erasing all his memories.
With Mukade gone, Sakura and Sai reunite with Naruto and Yamato in the present. When they are about to leave the ruins, they meet Queen Sāra’s daughter, who was left with the old chakra blade that belonged to Naruto. She reports that she was given to her mother by a ‘hero in a dream’. Naruto recognizes his sword, he approaches his back where he normally keeps his sword, but it is not there. He is dumbfounded.
8. Naruto the Movie: Blood Prison (2011)
Naruto Uzumaki is arrested and sent to Hozuki Castle (鬼 灯 城, Hoozuki Jou) in Hidden Grass Village, after he is wrongly found responsible for attacking the Fourth Raikage.
Mui (無為), the head of the prison, places the Sky Prison Control seal (天牢 を 使 う, Tenrou or Tsukau) on Naruto and limits his chakra. Ryūzetsu (竜 舌), a member of Hidden Grass Black Ops, tells him that Mui used the villager of Hot Water Kazan to frame Naruto, and Mui’s son Muku (無垢) was sacrificed and sealed in the Paradise Box. ten years ago. During the prison riot, Mui uses Naruto’s fox chakra to unlock the box, only for the resurrected Muku to be possessed by the demon Satori (悟 り) and invade the castle. Naruto and his friends fail to defeat Satori, but the dying Mui seals him inside Muku with the formula and the victim returns to the box. While the group recovers the surviving prisoners, Ryūzetsu is killed using Dragon Life Reincarnation to save Naruto. The heroes then buried her and Mui, and placed the sealed box in the sea.
Tsunade informs the team that Naruto’s fake arrest was rehearsed.
9. Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie (2012)
Naruto and the Blade Ninja chase away a group of White Zetsu posing as fallen Akatsuki members, Naruto is lonely seeing the impressed families of his friends as he finds Sakura Haruno arguing with her parents. When Sakura later uses Naruto as an excuse to avoid her parents after he had an argument with Iruka Umino, the two are confronted by Tobi, who subjects them to a limited version of Infinite Tsukuyomi: The Limited Tsukuyomi (限定 月読, Gentei Tsukuyomi). . Naruto and Sakura end up in a genjutsu-based reality filled with polar opposites from their friends that reflect their wishes: namely a version of Sasuke Uchiha who remained in the village and Naruto’s parents are alive while Sakura’s have been dead. during years. Naruto and Sakura also learn of a masked ninja attacking Jinchuriki who is behind the Scroll of the Red Moon that Jiraiya sacrificed his life to send to Tsunade to keep.
While Naruto was more focused on returning to his reality before deciding to have a family, Sakura enjoyed being an orphan until loneliness begins to affect her along with the antics of the Reality Sasuke. The village is then attacked by the masked ninja, who is revealed to have allied himself with Tobi, who has used a disembodied form to enter the reality of genjutsu, while kidnapping Sakura to demand a ransom for the Scroll of the Red Moon. . Realizing that the genjutsu’s parents, while very similar, are not like his own, Naruto grabs the Scroll of the Red Moon as he runs to save Sakura and confront the masked ninja. Naruto is overpowered by the masked ninja and his Nine Masked Beasts, when he is saved by the Genjutsu version of Itachi and Akatsuki. As Akatsuki dispatches the Masked Beasts, Naruto battles the masked ninja who is revealed to be his global Genjutsu counterpart: Menma (メ ン マ). Menma absorbs the defeated masked beasts to manifest the Black Nine Tails, with the Nine Tails making a temporary truce with Naruto to defeat his counterpart. But all of this played up Tobi’s plan as he possesses Menma so that he can personally extract the weakened Nine-Tails while completely clearing Naruto’s mind. Sakura saves Naruto before the Nine Tails is removed from her, and Naruto is inadvertently reminded of a memory that allows her to retrieve the rest of her memories in time to save Sakura, and then manages to force Tobi out of Menma and undo it. the Tsukuyomi Limited. Once back in her reality, after informing Tsunade of her ordeal, Sakura reunites with her parents while Naruto makes amends with Iruka and realizes that she already has a family in her friends.
10. The Last: Naruto the Movie (2014)
Two years after the peace established after the Fourth Ninja World War, the Sixth Hokage Kakashi Hatake realizes that the moon is closing in on Earth and will soon collide with it. The crisis is caused by Toneri Otsutsuki, a descendant of the twin brother of the Sage of the Six Paths, Hamura Otsutsuki, who is determined to fulfill Hamura’s promise to judge mankind for his millennial perversion of the Sage’s teachings in ninjutsu. During the Rinne Festival, Hinata Hyuga weaves a red scarf similar to the one Naruto wore when they first met Sakura Haruno offering her help. Hinata hesitates when Naruto receives a variety of gifts from others, including another scarf. Toneri infiltrates the Hidden Leaf to kidnap Hinata, but Naruto’s intervention forces him to kidnap his younger sister Hanabi.
Naruto, Hinata, Sakura, Sai, and Shikamaru Nara are assigned by Kakashi to rescue Hanabi. In an abandoned village of the Otsutsuki Clan, Naruto understands the concept of romantic love by seeing Hinata’s memories while being trapped in an illusion and spending more time with her. It was revealed that the Hyuga Clan was a descendant of Hamura’s relatives who remained on Earth, Toneri had transplanted Hanabi’s eyes into himself in order to acquire the Tenseigan (転 生 眼, literally “Eye of Reincarnation”) created from from the sealed eyes of his ancestors while proposing to Hinata. . Hinata accepts the offer to save Hanabi, breaking Naruto’s heart in the process as he leaves with Toneri. Villagers on Earth defend themselves by intercepting lunar meteorites and evacuating civilians while Sasuke Uchiha returns to help protect his home.
After recovering for three days, Sakura assures Naruto that Hinata loves him and the group approaches Toneri’s castle. Hamura’s spirit contacted Hinata and asked for her help as Princess Byakugan, as Toneri has misinterpreted her decree. Toneri refuses to listen to Hinata, ruins the scarf and brainwashes her. Upon invading Toneri’s castle, Sakura and Sai secure Hanabi while Shikamaru keeps Toneri’s puppets at bay. Naruto saves Hinata and her attempt to stop Toneri from winning the Tenseigan. But Toneri acquires it and cuts the moon in half when Naruto engages him in combat and overpowers the Otsutsuki with the help of Hinata, causing the moon to return to its orbit due to the mixing of its chakra. After Hinata regains Hanabi’s eyes, Toneri realizes the truth about Hamura’s decree and decides to stay on the moon to atone for his sins. After Naruto tells Hinata that the scarf she wore earlier belonged to her late mother, they declare love and return home.
During the end credits, Naruto and Hinata get married in front of their friends. The post-credits scene before the epilogue shows them starting a family with their two children: Boruto Uzumaki and Himawari Uzumaki.
11. Boruto: Naruto the Movie (2015)
The film begins with a battle between the ninja Sasuke Uchiha and an unknown adversary who is observed by another enemy. The plot then passes to the protagonist of the Naruto series, Naruto Uzumaki, who has become “the Seventh Hokage”, the leader of the village of Konohagakure. He is married to Hinata Uzumaki and has two children, Boruto Uzumaki and Himawari Uzumaki. Boruto, Sarada Uchiha (Sasuke and Sakura Uchiha’s daughter), and a boy named Mitsuki (Orochimaru’s son) become an elite ninja team under their master, Konohamaru Sarutobi. Boruto is upset at Naruto for focusing more on being the Hokage than on his family.
Sasuke returns to the village to warn Naruto about the powerful opponent he faced earlier. After Naruto misses Himawari’s birthday, Boruto meets Sasuke and asks him to train him so that he can become strong enough to surpass Naruto. Sasuke agrees to the condition that Boruto perform the Rasengan technique, which he later learns from Konohamaru. Sasuke then keeps his promise and helps Boruto prepare for the upcoming Chunin exam, a test that young ninjas take. Boruto, hoping to convince Naruto to spend more time with him, is tempted to cheat on the exam using a prototype device, Kote, which stores each type of jutsu. It was given to him by the arrogant scientist Katasuke, who wanted his experiment to gain publicity for marketing purposes before Naruto rejected the proposal. In the exams, Naruto discovers Boruto cheating and disqualifies his son. Before Naruto leaves the arena, the two figures Sasuke encountered earlier, Kinshiki Otsutsuki and Momoshiki Otsutsuki, appear and destroy her.
It is revealed that the duo seek the Nine-Tailed creature sealed within Naruto’s body to create a chakra fruit for them to become immortal. Naruto sacrifices himself to protect everyone and entrusts Boruto’s safety to Sasuke. Sensing that Naruto is still alive in another dimension, Sasuke teams up with the other Kage to rescue him. Boruto insists on joining them to make peace with his father. They reach the other dimension and find Naruto tied up by the Otsutsuki duo, and the four Kage engage Kinshiki in a fight. Throughout the battle, Momoshiki devours Kinshiki to increase his strength, while Naruto joins forces with Sasuke to defeat him. However, Katasuke shoots Momoshiki with a Kote that restores his strength. Weakened, Naruto lends his remaining chakra to Boruto to create a giant Rasengan while Sasuke distracts Momoshiki long enough for Boruto to use his attack and finish it off.
In the days after the victory, Naruto reconciles with Boruto. Boruto decides to become a ninja who protects the village from the shadows; support Sarada’s dream of becoming a Hokage. After the credits, Mitsuki reveals that he is the son of the criminal Orochimaru, surprising his two companions.
Source – Naruto (Wikipedia)
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