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Road to Ninja: Naruto Film's English-Subtitled Trailer Streamed
posted on by Karen Ressler
Eleven Arts began streaming a second English-subtitled theatrical trailer on on Friday for Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie. The trailer premiered in Japan in 2012
The film will open in theaters in the United States on August 29 and all shows will be English-dubbed. The 2012 film features a story and character designs personally created by Kishimoto and was the highest-grossing in the Naruto franchise making 1.46 billion yen (about US$18.3 million).
Eleven Arts describes the film:
In the latest NARUTO SHIPPUDEN feature film, long ago, a mysterious masked shinobi unleashed the Nine-Tailed Fox onto the Village Hidden in the Leaves to spread chaos and destruction. But the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, and his wife Kushina Uzumaki sealed the Tailed Beast into their newborn son, Naruto, to save the village, foiling the shinobi's plan.Years later, Naruto and his friends succeed in driving away the infamous Akatsuki, who have mysteriously returned from the dead. Upon returning to the village, the young shinobi are praised by their families for completing a dangerous mission. Reminded of how alone he is, Naruto begins to wonder what it's like to have parents, when a strange masked figure appears before him – the same masked shinobi responsible for the death of his parents!