Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Lost Tower

Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Lost Tower (Japanese: 劇場版 NARUTO（ナルト） 疾風伝 ザ・ロストタワー, Hepburn: Gekijōban Naruto Shippūden: Za Rosuto Tawā) is a 2010 Japanese animated action-adventure fantasy film based on Masashi Kishimoto's manga and anime series. It was released on July 31, 2010.[1] Along with the film, a comical short feature named Naruto, the Genie, and the Three Wishes!! (劇場版NARUTO-ナルト-そよ風伝　ナルトと魔神と3つのお願いだってばよ！！, Gekijōban Naruto Soyokazeden: Naruto to mashin to mitsu no onegai dattebayo!!) was also shown. The theme song "if" is performed by Kana Nishino. The film was released in North America on September 17, 2013 by Viz Media. The film is set after episode 143.

Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Lost Tower
Japanese film poster
Directed byMasahiko Murata
Written byJunki Takegami
Produced byFukashi Azuma
Naoji Hōnokidani
Starring
Music byYasuharu Takanashi
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • July 31, 2010 (2010-07-31)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office¥1.03 billion (US$8.5 million)

Plot

Assigned a mission to capture a missing-nin named Mukade, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, Yamato and Sai wield chakra-knives. At the one thousand-year-old desert city ruins of Loran, they confront Mukade attempting to dominate the Ninja World with the power of the Ryūmyaku (the Ley Line in English), an ancient chakra flowing deep underground. He breaks the seal created by Minato Namikaze to unleash the Ryūmyaku's power creating a light that engulfs Naruto and Yamato, before Sai and Sakura ride on an ink bird and attempt to escape.

Naruto and Yamato are sent twenty years into the past. When Naruto awakens from this time slip, he meets the queen of Loran, Sāra. It is later revealed that Mukade traveled to the past six years before Naruto and changed his name to Anrokuzan, the minister of Loran who had killed Sāra's mother Sēramu. Naruto agrees to protect Sāra, after Anrokuzan declares about the kidnapped citizens and creates to summon the "Puppet Ninja Forces". Minato, Shibi Aburame, Chōza Akimichi, and Kakashi Hatake, on their own mission to stop Anrokuzan, appear to support the heroes.

While they rescue Sara's people and Naruto holds Minato's kunai, Sāra recalls her memory about Sēramu's lullaby. Anrokuzan uses the parts of the tower 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 spot and Naruto destroys it. As Yamato and Kakashi rescue Naruto and Sāra, Minato uses the kunai to completely seal off the power. Just as the heroes vanish from the past, Minato erases all of their memories to keep history unchanged.

With Mukade/Anrokuzan gone, Sakura and Sai reunite with Naruto and Yamato in the present. As they are about to leave the ruins, they run into Queen Sāra's daughter, who kept the old chakra blade that belonged to Naruto. She informs that it was given to her mother by a "Hero in a Dream". Naruto recognizes his blade, reaches out to his back where he usually keeps his blade, but it is not there, and is left dumbfounded. However, Sakura pinches his ear and accuses him for having a dream.

Cast
Character Japanese Voice Actor English Voice Actor
Naruto Uzumaki Junko Takeuchi Maile Flanagan
Sakura Haruno Chie Nakamura Kate Higgins
Yamato Rikiya Koyama Troy Baker
Sai Satoshi Hino Ben Diskin
Minato Namikaze Toshiyuki Morikawa Tony Oliver
Young Kakashi Mutsumi Tamura Dave Wittenberg
Young Guy Mayuki Makiguchi Ben Diskin
Young Asuma Fujiko Takimoto Doug Erholtz
Hiruzen Sarutobi Hidekatsu Shibata Steve Kramer
Tsunade Masako Katsuki Debi Mae West
Shizune Keiko Nemoto Megan Hollingshead
Jiraiya Hōchū Ōtsuka David Lodge
Shibi Aburame Kenji Hamada Crispin Freeman
Chōza Akimichi Nobuaki Fukuda Michael Sorich
Sāra Saori Hayami Eden Riegel
Sēramu Yumi Tōma Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Mukade / Anrokuzan Ryūzaburō Ōtomo JB Blanc
Masako Yuko Kobayashi Laura Bailey
Sarai Fujiko Takimoto Lucien Dodge

Home media

The film was released on DVD on April 27, 2011.

References
  1. "西野カナ、新曲は劇場版「Naruto」主題歌" [Kana Nishino's New Song Is the Theme of the Film Naruto]. Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. June 15, 2010. Retrieved June 19, 2010.
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