Boruto: Naruto the Movie (2015) on Netflix
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Boruto Uzumaki resents his father, Seventh Hokage Naruto, for putting the village before his family. Sasuke Uchiha returns to Konohagakure with a warning about two powerful enemies.
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Fifteen years after the Fourth Great Ninja War, Konohagakure thrives under its Seventh Hokage, Naruto Uzumaki, who lives with his wife Hinata and their two children, Boruto Uzumaki and Himawari Uzumaki. Boruto, Sarada Uchiha and a mysterious child named Mitsuki train together as a ninja team led by Konohamaru Sarutobi. Boruto resents how much of Naruto's time the Hokage duties take from the family. Sasuke Uchiha comes back to the village with a warning about two dangerous foes he has already encountered. After Naruto misses Himawari's birthday, Boruto asks Sasuke to train him so he can surpass his father. Sasuke agrees on one condition: Boruto must perform the Rasengan, which he learns from Konohamaru. Frustrated by the difficulty, Boruto turns to a Scientific Ninja Tool given to him by the scientist Katasuke.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Boruto: Naruto the Movie (2015)
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- Director Hiroyuki Yamashita, added to the project in December 2014 while Masashi Kishimoto began writing the script the following month, felt so pressured by the film's planned release date that he almost refused to direct it.
- To prepare, Masashi Kishimoto read a book about writing screenplays, and in Boruto he paid tribute to several films, most notably the 1996 movie The Rock and the 2002 Spider-Man; the tribute to The Rock leaned on kishōtenketsu, a common Japanese story structure.
- Masashi Kishimoto wanted the band Kana-Boon for the main theme after being impressed by their earlier Naruto: Shippuden opening "Silhouette"; their song "Diver" made him say he would definitely be crying when it played over the ending.
- Boruto was supposed to have a different teacher, but Masashi Kishimoto gave the role to Sasuke Uchiha because Sasuke had barely appeared in earlier films; the pairing is a reference to Piccolo and Gohan from Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball.
- Masashi Kishimoto had originally envisioned the film's storyline as a manga, but decided there was not enough time to complete it that way and wrote a screenplay instead.
- On August 25, 2015, the film became the highest-grossing movie in the Naruto series, earning ¥2.02 billion in 19 days from 1.56 million admissions.
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