Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel

Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone Gelel
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Directed by	Hirotsugu Kawasaki
Written by	Kawasaki and Yuka Miyata
Starring	Junko Takeuchi Chie Nakamura Showtaro Morikubo Akira Ishida
Music by	Toshio Masuda
Production company	Studio Pierrot
Distributed by	Toho Company Ltd. Viz Media
Release date	August 6, 2005 (2005-08-06)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥1.18 billion (US$10.2 million)

Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel (大激突!幻の地底遺跡だってばよ, Daigekitotsu! Maboroshi no Chiteiiseki Dattebayo, lit. Great Clash! The Illusionary Ruins at the Depths of the Earth) is a 2005 Japanese animated film directed by Hirotsugu Kawasaki and co-written by Kawasaki and Yuka Miyata. It is the second film based on the popular Naruto anime and manga series by Masashi Kishimoto. It was released in theaters in Japan on August 6, 2005. Unlike Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow, Legend of the Stone of Gelel became a direct-to-video film in the United States. It aired on Cartoon Network on July 26, 2008 and was released to DVD on July 29, 2008. The film is set after episode 160. The theme song "Ding! Dong! Dang!" is performed by TUBE.

Plot

At the desolated beach, the sand ninjas fight back against the mysterious armored bulky warriors. Gaara orders the ninjas to use Desert Imperial Funeral to shine a flare and reveal a large warship.

Naruto Uzumaki, Shikamaru Nara and Sakura Haruno deliver a lost pet ferret (that Naruto confuses for a cat, as he had never seen before) to the village. However, they meet to encounter a mysterious knight named Temujin, who falls from the cliff with Naruto. Shikamaru and Sakura then discover a giant ship. Naruto and Temujin wake up to find themselves in a moving caravan led by Kahiko and Emina. Kahiko reunites and names the ferret Nerugui.

While searching for Naruto, Shikamaru spies on the fortress and finds a lab with children in capsules. Two women with similar armor to what Temujin was wearing are talking about the Gelel Stone. After watching the process, Shikamaru realizes that the soldiers are being created by placing the souls of children in different bodies.

They learned about the special mineral called the Gelel Stone, which has a tremendously strong and mysterious power. There was once a clan that could control the stone's great powers (the traveling caravan and Temujin are part of this clan), but they were destroyed because of fights for the stone. Temujin is working for his Lord, Master Haido, who has his group searching for the Stone of Gelel so that he can create a 'utopia', a world free from war and strife. But he also tells his group that sacrifices are necessary for the greater good.

When Naruto meets Haido, he at first believes him. Naruto accompanies Temujin, Kamina and Ranke to the area, where the fight between the Sand Ninjas and Haido's forces took place. During the fight, Gaara defeats Ranke, while Kamina escapes from Kankuro. The caravan that Naruto was saved by has been attacked as Fugai threatens Kahiko for the location of the Stones of Gelel. Shikamaru and Sakura end up repelling her.

Temujin learns that Kahiko knows where the Stone of Gelel is hidden. When he tries to capture Kahiko, he is subdued by Shikamaru's shadow possession jutsu as Naruto catches up. Shikamaru interrogates Temujin about Haido's plot. After Shikamaru manages to get some answers, Temujin uses a smokescreen and kidnaps Kahiko and one of the children from the caravan. Temujin forces Kahiko to lead him to a cave where the stones are sealed away. Naruto follows him to try to stop him with Nerugui leading the way. Temujin sends the kid he abducted on his way as he has Kahiko lead him into the cave. But Haido, Fugai, and Kamina also follow him to the cave. This leads to a confrontation between Haido and Naruto's group as Naruto finally realizes Haido's evil intentions. He is disgusted that Haido and his followers are willing to sacrifice their friends and other innocents for their cause. He angrily yells that dreams that sacrificing friends are nothing but garbage, surprising Temujin. Kahiko triggers a mechanism that takes himself and Temujin to the chamber below, where the entrance to the mines of Gelel are, with the intent to destroy them. Haido angrily follows with several armed soldiers after smacking Naruto aside. Kamina challenges Shikamaru, and Sakura challenges Fugai before the latter can follow Haido with the ship. Naruto follows after Kahiko, Temujin and Haido.

Once there, Haido reveals that he has a fragment of the mighty Gelel stone which he uses to attack Kahiko. Eventually Temujin, surprised by Haido's cruel words and behavior, defends Kahiko and upsets Haido. Eventually, Naruto shows up and saves Kahiko. Temujin is finally so appalled by Haido's willingness to kill Naruto and Kahiko and call it a "noble sacrifice" that he refuses to kill them when Haido orders him to. He realizes that the shadowy figure he had seen in the ruins of his house after his parents' death was Haido. Haido then admits that he was the one who killed Temujin's family and then used their son like a pawn for all those years. He then attacks Temujin and destroys his piece of Gelel Stone by shoving his hand into his body, tossing him aside and leaving him lying on the ground, weak and horrified by what he has done. At this point Naruto intervenes and attacks Haido, hitting him with the Rasengan, which blasts him into the ceiling. But it starts to leak chakra from the Mines of Gelel and heal Haido's wounds. Haido then shoots a blast of pure chakra energy at Naruto and Temujin which is blocked by some soldiers who were Temujin's old friends. Naruto then creates a rasengan in one hand, and Temujin makes one in the other, which combined kill Haido. Haido crashes into the key to the mines of Gelel which causes a chain reaction which begins to destroy the surrounding area. Kahiko says the only way to stop the destruction is to summon a space-time rift to destroy the mines of Gelel and the summoner. Temujin offers to do it and begins to walk towards a summoning spot, ignoring Naruto's words. When the space time rift is summoned, Naruto rescues Temujin, and learns what happened to Sasuke and did not want history to repeat itself. After the Mines of Gelel got sucked into the space-time rift, a fraction of the energy leaked out and restore the entire area back to life. The recovered children were also reawakened by it, giving them new lives. Temujin and the children board a ship and sailed to a new world where they imagine a world without conflict.

Cast

Role	Japanese voice actor	American voice actor
Naruto Uzumaki	Junko Takeuchi	Maile Flanagan
Sakura Haruno	Chie Nakamura	Kate Higgins
Shikamaru Nara	Showtaro Morikubo	Tom Gibis
Gaara	Akira Ishida	Liam O'Brien
Kankuro	Yasuyuki Kase	Michael Lindsay
Haido	Akio Nojima	Douglas Rye
Temujin	Gamon Kaai Yūko Katō (Child)	Roger Craig Smith
Fugai	Urara Takano	Kari Wahlgren
Kamira	Sachiko Kojima	Jennifer Hale
Ranke	Houko Kuwashima	Megan Hollingshead
Emina	Tomoka Kurokawa	Michelle Ruff
Kahiko	Nachi Nozawa	Kyle Hebert

External links

• Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel at IMDb
• Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• http://narutoshippudenninjastorm.com/ "Naruto Shippuden Ninja Storm"