Naruto Shippūden the Movie

Naruto Shippūden the Movie is the fourth entry in the film series and the opening Shippūden feature, directed by Hajime Kamegaki and written by Junki Takegami. It reached Japanese theatres in August 2007, followed by a North American DVD in November 2009 and an English broadcast on Disney XD in 2011. DJ OZMA performs the ending song, Lie-Lie-Lie.

The film opens on a vision of Naruto slain by a monster, then rewinds. A man called Yomi seizes the spirit of Mōryō, a demon who once sought to raise a thousand-year kingdom, and lends his own body as a temporary vessel while an army of terracotta statues carves a path to the demon's sealed remains. The only obstacle is the priestess Shion, who can seal Mōryō away again, so Yomi sends assassins to kill her.

Konoha dispatches Naruto, Sakura, Neji, and Rock Lee to escort Shion to the shrine. Along the way she calmly foretells Naruto's death, a prophecy her assistant Taruho insists has never once failed. Repeated ambushes by Yomi's chakra-fuelled subordinates test the team, and Lee resorts to the Drunken Fist while Naruto's Rasengan drives one attacker back. A staged death reveals that Taruho has been impersonating Shion, and the grieving priestess explains that her foresight lets her rewind her own death onto someone else.

Realizing the enemy must constantly replenish their chakra, the team outmaneuvers them, with Neji disabling the ninja who supplies the others. At the mountain temple, Yomi reaches the shrine first, but Mōryō betrays and sacrifices him to break free and return to his true form. Shion is absorbed, and inside the demon she connects with her late mother's spirit and learns her full power was sealed within her bell.

The bell she had secretly placed on Naruto shields him at the exact moment of his foretold death. Refusing to let Shion sacrifice herself, Naruto channels her chakra into a massive combined Rasengan that annihilates Mōryō and leaves a new volcano where the shrine stood. Afterward Shion resolves to continue her bloodline and, to everyone's shock, asks Naruto to help father her child, a request he cheerfully misreads.

On its opening weekend the film debuted at number six in Japan, then slipped to eighth over the following two weeks. It later appeared in several print forms, including an ani-manga edition and a light novel adaptation by Masatoshi Kusakabe. Notably, it remained the only Naruto movie to air on Disney XD, during the stretch when Disney held the broadcast rights to Naruto Shippūden.