What Are the Naruto Shippuden Movies in Order?

The first Shippuden film, released months after the television sequel began, opens with a prophecy of Naruto's death and a priestess he must protect, a marketing hook that leaned on the new series' darker branding. Bonds followed with a flying-ninja assault on the Leaf and an uneasy Naruto and Sasuke team-up that the television timeline of the moment could not have staged, a reminder that the films always sold what the current arcs could not show.

The middle pair are the line's most distinctive premises. The Will of Fire builds a war scare around Kakashi as a marked sacrifice, the closest the films came to the television story's emotional register, while The Lost Tower sends Naruto twenty years into the past to fight beside a young Minato, a father-son meeting the manga was still withholding, sold entirely on that forbidden pleasure. Blood Prison, in 2011, drops Naruto into a shinobi prison under a false charge, the line's most self-contained story.

Road to Ninja closes the Shippuden-branded run in 2012 as its commercial peak and creative exception, Kishimoto-authored and documented on its own page of this Library. The Last then arrived in December 2014 as a canon epilogue film rather than a Shippuden entry, and Boruto followed in 2015, which is why filmographies that stop at ten or eleven titles are usually disagreeing about banners, not about films.

For collectors, the six-film Shippuden run is a tidy shelf: annual Japanese programs and posters in a consistent design language, English releases that arrived on a delay in the early years and near-simultaneously later. Watch order for new viewers is simply release order; none of the six requires more than the television arcs of its own year.