Trivia

The film had over 10 hours of left over footage and drawings.

In Naruto: Shippuden (2007) there is a episode called ROAD to SAKURA (2012) which has Sakura from the universe in Road To Ninja transported to Naruto (2002)/Naruto Shippuden universe, and the episode is takes place within the time frame of Road to Ninja - Naruto the Movie (2012) which explains Naruto and Sakura's absence in the Naruto/Naruto Shippuden universe.

While filming Nicolet Scaletta spent almost three days of no sleep to perfect the script.

The ending was an idea of Masashi Kishimoto after he was drawing an upcoming manga.

This anime film is located chronologically after the episode of Kisame to iu otoko (2012) and before the episode of Shi e izanu tenshi (2012) from Naruto: Shippuden (2007).