'Naruto' is Masashi Kishimoto's popular ninja action manga (graphic novel) serialized in the magazine Weekly Shonen Jump since 1999. The leading character, Naruto Uzumaki is a 12-year-old boy who with a 'Nine-tailed Fox Demon' sealed inside his body. He spends all his time doing ninja training and mission with his teammates Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno, aiming to be 'Hokage', the No.1 ninja of his home village. The TV anime series has been aired since 2002. This is the first movie version, "Naruto: Daikatsugeki! Yukihime Ninpocho Dattebayo!!" (it means something like "Naruto: A Big Action Play! It's the Snow Princess' Ninja Art Book!!"). The Team Kakashi (the teacher Kakashi Hateke and his students: Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura) is assigned to escort the actress Yukie Fujikaze, who is playing the heroine of the popular movie "Snow Princess' Adventure" series, to the 'Snow Land' for location shooting, but somehow she adamantly refuses to go to the 'Snow Land', and the film crew is attacked by mysterious ninjas. The original story by Masashi Kishimoto. Directed by Tensai Okamura. The character design by Tetsuya Nishio. The animation supervisor is Hiroto Tanaka. The animation produced by Pierrot. The cofeature is the 11-minute short film "Naruto the Movie: Konoha no Sato no Dai Undoukai (The Big Athletic Meet in Konoha no Sato)".

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