| Naruto Shippuuden The Movie (Aug/04/2007) |  |
The trailer begins with a brief glimpse of Shion's eyes and a dark scene with lava. Naruto is fighting against dark purple, snake-like attacks with dragon heads. He is impaled through his back for the first of two times in the trailer. Shion's face is seen in a metallic reflection as if she was looking at herself, while black ribbons wave in the background.
The second scene shows Naruto's friends mourning in a graveyard, though many details are different than the scene showed in the initial teasers. Sakura, Neji, Choji, Tsunade, Lee and others are present showing battle damage and not wearing their funeral clothing.
The following scenes show Naruto and Sakura carrying around a weak Shion in a friendly manner. Lee is seen fighting with a rock-like enemy. Three individuals with connected chakra strings are also seen. The trailer ends as Shion falls from Naruto's back and down a chasm. As she falls, she reaches for a cracked ornament that she wears. The scene suddenly changes to show Naruto impaled a second time, this time by a sword through the heart. | Director: Hajime Kamegaki
Writer: Masashi Kishimoto
Story: Yasuaki Takeuchi | Screenplay: Junki Takegami | |
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| 1 :01x01 - Homecoming (Feb/15/2007) | | Naruto Uzumaki returns to his village of Konoha after a two-and-a-half-year training journey with Jiraiya. He is reintroduced to his peers, who have advanced at least to Chunin rank, unlike Naruto who is still a Genin. Elsewhere, two members of the organization Akatsuki head towards the village of Sunagakure to capture Gaara, who has since become the Kazekage, the village leader. | Director: Hayato Date
Writer: Masashi Kishimoto
Story: Masashi Kishimoto | |
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| 2 :01x02 - Akatsuki, action starts (Feb/15/2007) | | Jiraiya tells Kakashi Hatake that Akatsuki's plan to collect the tailed beasts is underway. Because of the Demon Fox inside him, Naruto is in danger any time he leaves the village, so Jiraiya relinquishes Naruto's training to Kakashi, who can ensure his safety. Kakashi offers to give Naruto and Sakura a test to see how far they have improved. Meanwhile, the Akatsuki members Deidara and Sasori arrive at the entrance of the Sunagakure. They discover that Yura, their sleeper agent, has already cleared the guards. | Director: Hayato Date
Writer: Masashi Kishimoto
Story: Masashi Kishimoto | |
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| 3 :01x03 - The results of training (Feb/22/2007) | | Kakashi challenges Naruto and Sakura with the bell test, in which they must forcefully take from Kakashi two jingle bells using whatever means necessary. Sakura and Naruto both demonstrate their newly acquired skills. At Sunagakure, Deidara reveals his ability to manipulate exploding clay. He takes to the skies aboard a giant clay bird and begins his aerial assault by lobbing exploding clay spiders onto the guards, instantly killing them. As soon as he makes it to the Kazekage building, however, he finds Gaara there waiting for him. | Director: Hayato Date
Writer: Masashi Kishimoto
Story: Masashi Kishimoto | |
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| 4 :01x04 - Jinchuriki of the Sand (Mar/01/2007) | | Naruto and Sakura both realize that even though they have vastly improved, they are still no match for Kakashi's superior techniques, and decide to resort to more unconventional means. They win the challenge by threatening to spoil the ending of Kakashi's new graphic novel, forcing him to cover his ears and shut his eyes. Meanwhile, Deidara and Gaara begin their battle. Deidara finds a formidable challenge in Gaara's abilities to control and manipulate sand. | Director: Hayato Date
Writer: Masashi Kishimoto
Story: Masashi Kishimoto | |
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| 5 :01x05 - As the Kazekage...! (Mar/15/2007) | | Deidara sees that subduing the Kazekage is not as easy as he thought. He hurls exploding clay at Gaara to no effect, as Gaara can quickly summon a shield of sand around him with relative ease. Gaara then commands his sand to attack Deidara who has no choice but to try to evade. Gaara's sand eventually catches up with Deidara and crushes his arm. | Director: Hayato Date
Writer: Masashi Kishimoto
Story: Masashi Kishimoto | |
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| 6 :01x06 - Mission Cleared (Mar/29/2007) | | Deidara is determined to capture the Kazekage. Unfazed by the loss of his arm, he unleashes a massive clay bomb onto the village. Gaara is able to deflect the bomb by using his sand to create an enormous shield over the village. However, this leaves him open to a sudden attack, and he inadvertently uses sand that had been seeded with Deidara's clay to defend himself. Deidara then detonates the clay-infested sand, which knocks Gaara unconscious. Deidara captures him and flies away. | Director: Hayato Date
Writer: Masashi Kishimoto
Story: Masashi Kishimoto | |
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| 7 :01x07 - Run, Kankurou (Mar/29/2007) | | As Deidara carries an unconscious Gaara out of the village, Gaara's older brother Kankuro chases after them. At the village entrance he discovers that all the guards there have already been killed. Upon catching Deidara and Sasori, Kankuro initiates his Puppet Technique by summoning his puppets Karasu, Kuroari, and Sanshouo. Sasori sees this as an opportunity to demonstrate his skills, and he allows Deidara to go ahead so that he can battle Kankuro alone. | Director: Hayato Date
Writer: Masashi Kishimoto
Story: Masashi Kishimoto | |
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| 8 :01x08 - Team Kakashi deployed! (Apr/12/2007) | | Kankuro's attacks are all nullified by Sasori's scorpion-like tail. He eventually pierces Kankuro with his tail, inflicting him with a slow poison. Kankuro is puzzled at how easily Sasori counters his fighting style. Sasori reveals that he himself used to be from Sunagakure and that Kankuro's puppets are his own creations. In response to the Akatsuki assault, Sunagakure sends a distress call to Konoha. | Director: Hayato Date
Writer: Masashi Kishimoto
Story: Masashi Kishimoto | |
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| 9 :01x09 - The Jinchiuriki's tears (Apr/12/2007) | | Kankuro is brought back to the village but he is feeling the effects of Sasori's deadly poison. The village's medics are helpless arriving at a cure. Baki decides to seek help from the village's elders, Chiyo and Ebizo. Meanwhile, Konoha receives the emergency message from Sunagakure. Tsunade chooses to send Kakashi, Naruto and Sakura to respond to the Sand's need. Along the way, Sakura learns for the first time that Naruto's body contains the demon fox. | Director: Hayato Date
Writer: Masashi Kishimoto
Story: Masashi Kishimoto | |
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| 10 :01x10 - Sealing Jutsu: Illusionary Nine Dragon Seal (Apr/19/2007) | | Deidara and Sasori arrive at the secret Akatsuki hideout. The Akatsuki leader gathers his followers and they begin the ritual to extract the One-Tailed Shukaku from Gaara. At Sunagakure, Kankuro's condition is worsening and Chiyo claims that even her expertise is not enough to counter Sasori's poison. At Konoha, Tsunade foresees the difficulty of Team Kakashi's mission and orders Team Gai to back them up. | Director: Hayato Date
Writer: Masashi Kishimoto
Story: Masashi Kishimoto | |
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| 11 :01x11 - Apprentice of the Medical Ninja (Apr/26/2007) | | After traveling for three days, Team Kakashi arrives just in time to save Kankuro. Using the skills she acquired from her apprenticeship under Tsunade, Sakura is able to extract the poison and create an antidote. Kankuro regains consciousness and gives Kakashi a piece of cloth from Sasori's outfit, allowing Kakashi's ninja dogs to track the Akatsuki member. | Director: Hayato Date
Writer: Masashi Kishimoto
Story: Masashi Kishimoto | |
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| 13 :01x13 - A destined meeting (May/10/2007) | | The battle between Team Gai and Kisame begins, while Kakashi explains the danger of Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan to the rest of his team and reveals what he's discovered to be its weakness. Gai's team is quickly subdued leaving Gai to fight Kisame alone. Kakashi leads the attack against Itachi with Naruto following close behind, but Naruto is stopped when his allies vanish leaving him alone to face three Itachis. | Director: Hayato Date
Writer: Masashi Kishimoto
Story: Masashi Kishimoto | |
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| 14 :01x14 - Naruto's Growth (May/17/2007) | | The battle between Gai and Kisame gets into full swing. Gai bring outs his nunchaku to compensate for Kisame's sword, but takes a beating from Kisame's water attacks. Gai has to resort to his ultimate attack to even the score. And Neji takes his chance to break free Kisame's water trap. Meanwhile, Naruto realizes he is caught in an illusion and recalls his training with Jiraiya to dispell Itachi's illusion. When Naruto starts to apply his knowledge, Itachi remarks on Naruto's improvement. | |
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| 15 :01x15 - The Hidden Orb's Name... (May/24/2007) | | The two battles continue from previous episode. Naruto was released from Itachi’s Genjutsu by Chiyo and Sakura after his failed attempt. Gai opens the sixth gate and defeats Kisame using Morning Peacock. Distracted and immobilized by Kakashi’s shadow clone, Itachi took a direct hit from Naruto’s Great Ball Rasengan. The Konoha shinobi then find out, to their surprise, that they have not defeated Itachi or Kisame, but Yuura and an unknown person in Akatsuki’s cloaks. | |
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| 16 :01x16 - Jinchuuriki's Secret (May/31/2007) | | Kakashi's and Gai's teams both figure out that their battles with the doppelgängers were set-ups to delay them from coming to Gaara's rescue. Granny Chiyo reveals that in attempts to control the power of the tailed beasts they were binded into human hosts called Jinchuuriki and that the human host dies when the beast is extracted — increasing the urgency of saving Gaara. Kankuro is awake and joins a meeting of the Sand council where we also learn some more history of the Sand. Both teams stop to rest since their battles have taken their tolls and in prepation for the battles to come. Akatsuki sends Zetsu to dispose of the doppelgängers bodies. | | Starring Roles: Maaya Sakamoto as Matsuri | |
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| 17 :01x17 - Gaara dies! (Jun/07/2007) | | Team Gai and Team Kakashi both finish their breaks and go on towards the Akatsuki lair. Naruto shows intense passion and is in a hurry to reach Gaara. Chiyo notices this and Kakashi explains to her that Naruto is also a Jinchuriki and knows the pain Gaara has lived through. Chiyo explains that she was the ninja who sealed Shukaku in Gaara, in order to protect the Sand Village. Meanwhile, Akatsuki has finished extracting Shukaku from Gaara. Team Gai and Team Kakashi finally meet in front of the sealed entrance to the Akatsuki lair. | |
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| 18 :01x18 - Break in! Button Hook Entry (Jun/21/2007) | | Team Gai and Team Kakashi find out there is a barrier protecting the Akatsuki hideout, being generated by 5 forbidden tags in the area. After preparations, Team Gai removes the tags and disables the barrier allowing Team Kakashi to enter the hideout. Meanwhile all the Akatsuki members have left the hideout except for Deidara and Sasori, who are supposed to take care of the intruders. | |
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| 19 :01x19 - Trap Operation! Team Gai's Enemy (Jul/05/2007) | | Team Gai fights with exact clones of themselves, a trap set off by their removal of the barrier tags. Deidara takes Gaara's body outside of the cavern, followed by Naruto and Kakashi. Chiyo and Sakura stay behind to fight Sasori. | |
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| 20 :01x20 - Hiruko vs Two Female Ninja (Jul/19/2007) | | Sakura and "Baa-Chan" begin their battle with Sasori. We learn that Sasori's formidable body is really a puppet and that he is really inside it. Sasori expresses his desire to add baa-chan and Sakura to his puppet collection of empty shells, so that the number of puppets under his control will number 300. Sakura and Baa-Chan successfully evade Sasori's poisonous attacks, and Sakura breaks his puppet shell, revealing the true Sasori - we are to see his face in the next episode. As an aside, Naruto and Kakashi start their battle with Deidara, who reveals they have killed 2 other jinchuuriki (demon possessed ninja) other than Gaara. And that Gaara was (obviously) killed when they extacted the ichibi (1 tailed demon) | |
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| 21 :01x21 - True Face of Sasori (Jul/26/2007) | | With his puppet destroyed, Sasori revels himself to Chiyo and Sakura, looking no older than when he left his village twenty years ago. As a further bit of nostalgia, he produces a summoning scroll and calls forth the Third Kazekage, whom Sasori has made into a puppet. Using its weapons, which are even more dangerous than Hiruko's, Sasori is able to catch Sakura in a poison gas cloud. Meanwhile, Kankuro, Temari's team, and Ebizo make their way to the Kaktsuki hideout. | |
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| 22 :01x22 - Chiyo's Secret Skills (Aug/02/2007) | | Sakura manages to escape the poison gas cloud by using an explosive scroll on herself. Chiyo calls forth the "Mother" and "Father" puppets that Sasori created to fight him and the Third. They manage to hold down the Third for awhile until Sasori releases the Third's secret technique: Iron Sand. Meanwhile, Team Guy are having trouble fighting the clones and showing exhaustion from the battle. Naruto and Kakashi manage to avoid Deidara's clay bombs and keep up with him. | |
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| 23 :01x23 - Father and Mother (Aug/02/2007) | | The Iron Sand stops both puppets from moving. Chiyo's right arm (which she had turned into a puppet) gets clogged and broken as well. Chiyo thinks back to the past and remembers how Sasori created and controlled his first puppets, Father and Mother. Sakura urges Chiyo to use her again as her puppet. With Chiyo's help, Sakura avoids the columns formed by the Iron Sand to attack her. | |
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| 24 :01x24 - The Third Kazekage (Aug/09/2007) | | Sakura and Chiyo continue their battle with Sasori, while Naruto and Kakashi follow Deidara, and Team Guy fights their clones. Sakura remembers her training with Tsunade when she was taught to observe an enemies weakness and dodge their attacks. Sasori attacks with an Iron Sand pyramid and prism, but Sakura is able to fend them off, causing a cave in. Sasori then uses an new technique to attack with randomly-growing iron spikes, landing a hit and poisoning Sakura. With a final attack of the Third Kazekage's puppet, Sasori attempts to kill the weakened Sakura, only to find that she still has the strength to shatter and destroy his puppet. | |
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| 25 :01x25 - Three Minutes of Life and Death (Aug/16/2007) | | Sakura reveals that she took an antidote against Sasori's poison which will make her immune to it for three minutes, forcing herself and Chiyo to end the battle quickly. Meanwhile, Naruto and Kakashi continue their pursuit of Deidera. Deidera attempts to split up Naruto and Kakashi by creating a swarm of explosive jumping spiders out of his clay and has them pursue Kakashi. Kakashi makes a shadow clone as a decoy and the spiders, mistaking the shadow clone for the real Kakashi, detonate harmlessly. Kakashi then catches back up with Naruto and reveals a plan. Sakura and Chiyo ready themselves for the battle with Sasori, who reveals that he made himself into a human puppet. | |
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| 26 :01x26 - 10 Puppets vs 100 Puppets (Aug/23/2007) | | Sasori is barraging Chiyo and Sakura with fire and water, forcing them to hide behind rocks. He then attempts to kill Chiyo with his blades, but Sakura pulls him in and punches him, shattering his body. Instead of dying however, Sasori's broken pieces come together and reform. To deal with him, Chiyo summons the Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu. In reponse, Sasori takes out his final one hundred human puppets. Sakura and Chiyo hold their own against Sasori's puppets, destroying many in the process. Chiyo then gives Sakura a chakra-sealing orb, which she throws at Sasori. The orb then transforms into a giant maw that pins Sasori into the rock wall, preventing him from using chakra. Just when they though the battle was over, Sakura sees Sasori rise behind Chiyo, preparing to land a sneak attack and stab her with a sword. At the last second, Sakura acts as a human shield and gets stabbed with a poisoned katana through her abdomen. | |
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| 27 :01x27 - The Impossible Dream (Aug/30/2007) | | Chiyo injects an antidote into Sakura and manages to stab Sasori in his only living part, his heart, using the Father and Mother puppets. With Sasori immobilized, Chiyo heals Sakura's wounds using her resurrection jutsu. As Sasori dies, He awards Sakura for defeating him, telling her where he planned to meet with one of his spies who had been working undercover as one of Orochimaru's subordinates. Meanwhile as Kakashi and Naruto are pursuing Deidara, Kakashi reveals his plan by activating his Mangekyou Sharingan. | |
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| 28 :01x28 - Revival of the Beasts (Sep/13/2007) | | Team Guy fight continues as they fight their respective clones. Neji explains to each member of the team that they are systematically growing more and more weak as the fight drags on. Their clone being non-human remain as strong as they were when they were formed. Lee, who refuses to accept defeat realizes that the only way for them to defeat their clones is to become stronger then they were when they first started fighting. After a flashback about their training sessions they all remember their training motto. "Stronger then I was yesterday". The memory gives them the strength that they need to overpower and defeat their clones. | |
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| 29 :01x29 - Kakashi! Open your Eyes! (Sep/27/2007) | | After Team Guy finishes their battles, they make their way to Team Kakashi. Sakura and Chiyo also make their way towards Naruto and Kakashi. Kakashi reveals his Mangekyo Sharingan, which he uses to warp space around Deidara, hoping to suck him into an alternate dimension. However, he only succeeds in catching Deidara's arm, severing it. Kakashi's second attempt fails when Deidara dives into the trees. While Deidara has his guard down, Naruto manages to separate him from his clay bird, having his clones take the beak, which contains Gaara's body, to safety. Naruto, meanwhile, launches a vicious attack on Deidara, only to discover that he is beating up a clay replacement. In his angered state, Naruto's fox chakra begins to emerge. The two tailed form of the nine tailed fox emerges. | |
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| 30 :01x30 - Esthetics of a Moment (Sep/27/2007) | | While Naruto is taken over by the nine-tailed fox's chakra, Kakashi uses the seal Jiraiya gave him to suppress it. Team Guy finds Deidara thanks to Neji's Byakugan. Deidara seemingly self-destructs while attempting to kill his attackers by creating a massive explosion after eating the remains of his chakra infused clay bird. The explosion is stopped by Kakashi, who is able to send it to a different dimension. Sakura cannot bring Gaara back to life, and the group mourns Gaara's death. While the group mourns, Chiyo moves over to Garra's body and uses the life-resurrection technique. | |
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| 31 :01x31 - The Next Generation (Oct/18/2007) | | Chiyo finishes her life-resurrection technique with Naruto's help. As she is about to finish her technique, she passes down to Naruto and Sakura her wisdom for the future. A revived Gaara finds himself surrounded by shinobi from Sunagakure celebrating his return. After Gaara discovers that Chiyo has passed away, he asks everyone to pray silently for Chiyo's sacrifice. | |
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| 32 :01x32 - The Return of Kazekage (Oct/25/2007) | | Deidara survives his battle and begins to search for his missing arm. Meanwhile, Zetsu and Tobi, who wishes to join Akatsuki, search Sasori's remains for his ring. Deidara later finds the two searching for his own ring and attacks Tobi in a comical fashion. The leaf ninja leave Sunagakure after their victory, and Danzo gives Sai instructions for his new team, Team Kakashi. The leaf and sand ninja pay their respects at Chiyo's grave, and Gaara and Naruto shake hands before parting. Guy gives an exhausted Kakashi a piggyback ride home, oblivious to the looks of the other ninja. | |
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| 33 :01x33 - The New Target (Nov/08/2007) | | Teams Kakashi and Gai return home to Konoha. As Kakashi rests in the infirmary, Sakura tells Tsunade about the information Sasori gave her as a reward for defeating him. Sasori had a meeting scheduled with a spy from within Orochimaru's ranks in 10 days. 4 days have passed since Sakura received this information, and now Naruto and Sakura need to recruit a new team member to go and investigate. As Naruto searches Konoha for a willing recruit, he meets some of his old friends. Just as Choji agrees to help, Shikamaru, Choji and Naruto are attacked by a Konoha shinobi unknown to them, Sai. | |
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| 34 :01x34 - Formation! New Team Kakashi (Nov/15/2007) | | Naruto, Choji and Shikamaru attempt to capture and interrogate Sai, but Sai withdraws after insulting Naruto. Concerned that the Kyuubi could fall into Akatsuki hands, the village elders challenge Tsunade's plan to send Naruto out of the village without the still bedridden Kakashi. Tsunade promises to protect Konoha with her own life if Naruto is captured, but is still forced to compromise with Danzo by adding Sai to Team Kakashi. She also temporarily replaces Kakashi with ANBU member Yamato and warns him to keep an eye on Sai. Naruto and Sakura finally meet their new team members, and Naruto is immediately angered to see Sai is a part of the team. | |
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