2015 · adventure · action · animation
Boruto: Naruto the Movie
Directed by Hiroyuki Yamashita1h 35m2015
The spirited Boruto Uzumaki, son of Seventh Hokage Naruto, is a skilled ninja who possesses the same brashness and passion his father once had. However, the constant absence of his father, who is busy with his Hokage duties, puts a damper on Boruto's fire. He ends up meeting his father's friend Sasuke, and requests to become... his apprentice!? The curtain on the story of the new generation rises!
Our read: Boruto: Naruto the Movie (2015) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive adventure · action · animation entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured adventure / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
- epic-stakes
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