10.0/101 votes#1 - The Battle Over the Barrier
Season 5 Episode 105 - Aired 4/16/2009
Kabuto plans on breaking Leaf’s The Four-Corner Sealing Barrier from the inside by using Yukimaru’s power and have the Three-Tailed Beast go on a rampage.
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Yuka Miyata
8.5/102 votes#2 - Shattered Promise
Season 5 Episode 111 - Aired 5/28/2009
The sealing team continue their efforts to seal the Sanbi while Kakashi and the others face against a monster fused together by Kigiri, Nurari and Kihou. Kabuto reveals Orochimaru's plans involving the Sanbi and he and Naruto begin to fight. While protecting Yukimaru, Guren fights against the real Rinji, who has been resurrected by Kabuto. When Guren sacrifices her life to save Yukimaru, Yukimaru's powers go into full effect. Now, in order to protect Yukimaru, Naruto prepares to go against the rampaging Sanbi.
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Junki Takegami
8.3/103 votes#3 - Infiltration: The Set-Up!
Season 4 Episode 171 - Aired 2/8/2006
After Isaribi escapes, Naruto and his team decide to go to the forbidden island and confront Orochimaru and his subordinates. They soon discover that Orochimaru is not the man behind the curtain, but a man known as Amachi. Amachi is the one responsible for turning Isaribi into a monster, so why is she helping him?
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Yuka Miyata
8.0/105 votes#4 - The Kazekage Stands Tall
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/15/2007
Naruto and Sakura defeat Kakashi in the survival challenge. Tsunade assigns them to a three-man squad led by Kakashi, who tells them they are now his equals.
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Satoru Nishizono
8.0/102 votes#5 - The Labyrinth of Distorted Reflection
Season 5 Episode 97 - Aired 2/19/2009
In Konoha, Tsunade discovers they have an enemy using Crystal Style. While on his mission with Team Kakashi, Naruto meets Yūkimaru once again and talks to him. Guren puts a gigantic Crystal Prison over the forest trapping Team Kurenai inside. Guren then prepares six Crystal Clones and attacks Team Kurenai with them. Hinata defeats one clone but is locked up in a Crystal Prison by another. Team Kakashi reaches the borders of the giant prison and Naruto uses his new Jutsu with Gamatatsu to bust a way in.
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Junki Takegami
8.0/102 votes#6 - Rogue Ninja's Past
Season 7 Episode 147 - Aired 2/11/2010
Naruto, Sai, and Yamato arrive to save Hotaru and Utakata from the attacking ninja who they discover are Anbu from the Hidden Mist Village. Yamato attempts to negotiate alone with the head of the Mist Anbu, Tsurugi, and after their discussion, Tsurugi talks to Utakata alone. Tsurugi attempts to convince Utakata to return to the Hidden Mist Village but the latter refuses and remembers the horrible pain he suffered at the hands of his former master.
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Yasuyuki Suzuki
8.0/103 votes#7 - Explode! Sage Mode
Season 8 Episode 163 - Aired 6/3/2010
Naruto returns and discovers that the village has been devastated by Pain's Shinra Tensei attack. Naruto requests that everyone stays back as he prepares to take on all six paths of Pain at once.
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Masahiro Hikokubo
8.0/101 votes#8 - The Supposed Sealed Ability
Season 4 Episode 207 - Aired 10/26/2006
Naruto and the members of Team 8 head into Yakumo's house to find her with Kurenai. It is revealed that a mysterious entity might be behind all this. Can the group discover the truth in time?
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Junki Takegami
7.7/103 votes#9 - Disappearance
Season 6 Episode 125 - Aired 9/3/2009
By using himself as an explosive, Deidara creates an explosion ten kilometers in diameter, something not even Sasuke will be able to escape from. Is this the end of Sasuke? Elsewhere, someone approaches the Akatsuki leader and gives him orders to catch Naruto himself. Who is this true mastermind of the Akatsuki plot lurking in the shadows?
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Yasuyuki Suzuki
7.7/103 votes#10 - Surpassing the Master
Season 8 Episode 156 - Aired 4/15/2010
Naruto succeeds in mastering his Sage Mode, taking it farther than even Jiraiya could. Things aren't looking so great for Konoha, however, as Pain prepares to make his move.
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Yuka Miyata
7.5/102 votes#11 - Big Adventure! The Quest for the Fourth Hokage's Legacy ~ Part 2
Season 8 Episode 171 - Aired 7/29/2010
Naruto, Sakura, Shikamaru, Ino, and Choji continue to search for the Fourth Hokage's Legacy while chasing off some unexpected visitors.
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Junki Takegami
7.3/106 votes#12 - Kakashi's Enlightened!
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 9/27/2007
Sakura hurries to get to Naruto with Granny Chiyo, who is suffering from the poison. The members of Team Guy rush to assist Team Kakashi. Meanwhile, with all preparations complete, Kakashi reveals his Mangekyo Sharingan.
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Satoru Nishizono
7.0/103 votes#13 - Reunion, The Remaining Time
Season 4 Episode 182 - Aired 4/26/2006
Subaru finally meets his mother, but is it too late for them? Can Naruto defeat Akahoshi and stop the star from falling back into his hands, and what side will the village choose to take?
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Junki Takegami
7.0/102 votes#14 - Mystery of the Targeted Merchants
Season 4 Episode 188 - Aired 6/7/2006
The group splits off into two, in an attempt to deter their mysterious attackers. However, when Naruto and Chouji discover the plan hasn't worked as intended, they soon realise that somebody is hiding something important....
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Shin Yoshida
7.0/103 votes#15 - The ANBU Gives Up? Naruto's Recollection
Season 4 Episode 198 - Aired 8/23/2006
In order to get the information they need about Gennou, the ANBU put Naruto in a trance, hoping to prong the information they need from Naruto's memory. However, even by doing all of this, will they get the information they need?
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Satoru Nishizono
7.0/102 votes#16 - A Past to Be Erased
Season 4 Episode 215 - Aired 12/21/2006
Ran wants to kill Menma, upon seeing the mark on his arm, but Neji stands in the way, saying it would be unfair to kill a criminal without any memories of his crimes. Ran finally agrees and performs surgery on Menma, saving his life, but the villagers aren’t as happy. Are they prepared for when foreign shinobi group comes for a second attack?
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Shin Yoshida
6.7/103 votes#17 - A Shinobi's Determination
Season 5 Episode 90 - Aired 12/25/2008
As Naruto recovers from his injury, Kakashi prepares to tell him the grim news about his new technique. Meanwhile, Sasuke secretly trains and has an encounter with a strange young girl.
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Junki Takegami
5.8/105 votes#18 - Climbing Silver
Season 4 Episode 77 - Aired 9/25/2008
Asuma’s team reaches the bounty station and ambushes Hidan. Izumo and Kotetsu attack Hidan, but are unable to kill him despite stabbing his vital organs. Asuma tells his teammates that if they retreat they will be killed and Konoha will be endangered. Shikamaru realizes that Asuma is considering sacrificing himself to help defeat the enemy, based on what he knows of Asuma's shogi strategy. Asuma begins fighting Hidan, while Shikamaru distracts him by forcing him to dodge Shadow Sewing. Hidan cuts Asuma on the cheek and steps into a circle of blood as Asuma uses a jutsu to engulf Hidan in a cloud of ash. Asuma then sets the cloud ablaze, supposedly killing Hidan.
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Masahiro Hikokubo
5.7/103 votes#19 - The Two Kings
Season 3 Episode 63 - Aired 6/19/2008
Asuma supervises Naruto and Sora's wind chakra training, and notices that Sora, like Naruto, has very powerful chakra. Tsunade and Yamato learn from Chiriku that Sora was inadvertently responsible for an incident in which the Temple of Fire was destroyed. Later, Asuma gives Sora a claw made from the same materials as his chakra blades. It is revealed that Asuma killed Sora's father Kazuma, who had planned to kill the Hokage. Furido then approaches Sora, telling him that Asuma is responsible for his father's death and passing him two "king" pieces from a Shogi set for Asuma. Danzo mysteriously disappears. Naruto approaches a furious Sora in the training grounds, who easily throws a chakra-powered kunai through a tree and destroys the stone behind it.
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Masahiro Hikokubo
5.0/101 votes#20 - Picking Wild Greens
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/18/2020
Iris leads everyone to her kingdom's woods to pick wild greens for a group meal. Over the course of their time together, the two groups gain a new appreciation of their differences and what they can learn from each other.
Director: Yuki Kinoshita
Writer: Masato Jimbo
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"The Battle Over the Barrier" is the best rated episode directed by Yuki Kinoshita. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Yuka Miyata. It aired on 4/16/2009 and is rated 1.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Shattered Promise".