How Many Naruto Movies Are There?
Eleven theatrical films, released at the rhythm of the Japanese summer movie season. The original series produced three: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow (August 21, 2004), Legend of the Stone of Gelel (2005) and Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom (2006). They are self-contained adventures, built to be watched without any knowledge of where the television story currently stood.
Shippuden produced eight more, roughly one a year: Naruto Shippuden the Movie (2007), Bonds (2008), The Will of Fire (2009), The Lost Tower (2010), Blood Prison (2011), Road to Ninja (2012), The Last (2014) and Boruto: Naruto the Movie (2015). The annual film became a franchise ritual on the level of the television series itself, with its own posters, soundtracks and theater merchandise.
Nine of the eleven are standalone stories outside the manga's plot. The exceptions are the final two: The Last, which Kishimoto helped shape as a genuine chapter of the story, and the Boruto film, which introduced the sequel generation on screen a year before the Boruto manga launched. The Library's film pages treat those two as canon objects and the other nine as parallel ones.
The eleven, in order
In release order: Land of Snow (2004), Stone of Gelel (2005), Crescent Moon Kingdom (2006), Shippuden the Movie (2007), Bonds (2008), The Will of Fire (2009), The Lost Tower (2010), Blood Prison (2011), Road to Ninja (2012), The Last (2014) and Boruto (2015). There was no film in 2013, the single gap year, when production effort went to the television climax and the Road to Ninja follow-up projects.
The films as physical objects
Each film anchored a small merchandise ecosystem: advance tickets, theater programs, limited goods and, in the case of The Last, an entire databook handed to attendees. The posters, designed for cinema lobbies, became some of the most reproduced Naruto images of their years, and original Japanese theatrical posters and programs are the film objects collectors actually chase.