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winner of the 6th Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Grand Prize.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.genre-form.animated-shorts.anime-features.yr-1999-2013", "markdown": "# Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Battle of the Warring States\n\n**Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Battle of the Warring States** (映画クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶ アッパレ！戦国大合戦) is a 2002 Japanese animated film, the tenth theatrical feature based on Yoshito Usui's comedy manga *Crayon Shin-chan*. Directed and written by Keiichi Hara, it sends the five-year-old protagonist Shinnosuke Nohara and his family back to the [Sengoku period](https://www.edgepedia.org/sengoku-period) (Japan's turbulent civil-war era of rival warlords) of 1574, where they become entangled in a forbidden love between a samurai and a princess and in a war over their castle. The film was released in Japan on April 20, 2002, runs 95 minutes, and was distributed by Toho.[1](https://eiga.com/movie/40519/)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Series position | 10th theatrical *Crayon Shin-chan* film; released April 20, 2002[1](https://eiga.com/movie/40519/) |\n| Runtime and distributor | 95 minutes; distributed by Toho[1](https://eiga.com/movie/40519/) |\n| Director and screenwriter | Keiichi Hara, who held both roles for the last time in the series with this film[1](https://eiga.com/movie/40519/) • [2](https://note.com/yokogao/n/nefe7b77afdc2) |\n| Setting | Tenshō 2 (1574), the Sengoku period, around Kasuga Castle[1](https://eiga.com/movie/40519/) |\n| Main voice cast | Akiko Yajima (Shinnosuke), Yorozuya... Yuriko Yamaguchi role played by Yusaku Yara (Matabee), Ai Kobayashi (Ren-hime), Miki Narahashi (Misae), Hiroshi Fujioka role played by Keiji Fujiwara (Hiroshi)[1](https://eiga.com/movie/40519/) |\n| Major award | Grand Prize, Animation Division, 6th Japan Media Arts Festival[3](https://www.bunka.go.jp/j-mediaarts-festival/award/single/crayon-shin-chan-arashi-wo-yobu-appare-sengoku-daikassen-the-storm-called-the-battle-of-the-warring-states/) |\n| Later adaptation | 2009 live-action remake *BALLAD: Namonaki Koi no Uta*, directed by Takashi Yamazaki[4](https://img-lib.musabi.ac.jp/search/document/detail-work/26890) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Story\n\nThe Nohara family all dream of a beautiful woman standing by a pond. The next day, Shinnosuke suddenly time-slips to Tenshō 2 (1574), where he saves the life of a samurai called the \"blue-sky samurai,\" Ijiri Matabee, and is brought to Kasuga Castle. There he meets the woman from his dream: Ren-hime, daughter of the castle's lord Yasutsuna, who is to be married off in a political match to the daimyo Okurai Takatora.[1](https://eiga.com/movie/40519/)\n\nShinnosuke realizes that Matabee and Ren-hime secretly love each other and tries to bring them together, but Matabee seals his feelings away because their social ranks differ. Worried about Shinnosuke, Hiroshi, Misae, and the rest of the family also arrive in the era, and the family reunites, though no one knows how to return home.[1](https://eiga.com/movie/40519/)\n\nWhen Yasutsuna changes his mind and the political marriage is refused, Takatora attacks with a neighboring country. Matabee and the Kasuga forces fight to defend the castle, the people, the land, and the people they love. With the Nohara family's help, the Kasuga army wins, taking Takatora's topknot. On the victory march, however, Matabee is struck by a bullet from an unknown shooter and falls. Shinnosuke parts from Ren-hime and returns to his own time.[1](https://eiga.com/movie/40519/)\n\n## Production\n\nThe film followed the well-received *The Storm Called: The Adult Empire Strikes Back* (2001) and continued the series' turn toward stories that, while marketed to children, were made to hold adult audiences as well. Hara directed and wrote the screenplay, Tsutomu Mizushima served as performance director, Yuichiro Sueyoshi designed the characters, and the music was composed by Toshiyuki Arakawa and Shiro Hamaguchi.[1](https://eiga.com/movie/40519/) The production companies were Shin-Ei Animation, TV Asahi, and ASATSU-DK, with Toho as distributor.[5](https://sp.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=32925) This was the last film in the series for which Hara served as both director and screenwriter; he left the director's chair after this entry.[2](https://note.com/yokogao/n/nefe7b77afdc2)\n\n## Style and reception\n\nThe film is a full-scale period drama within a comedy franchise. WOWOW's program notes describe it as filled with homages to [Akira Kurosawa](https://www.edgepedia.org/akira-kurosawa) films such as *The Hidden Fortress* and *Ran*, with careful period research into the daily life and samurai etiquette of the era.[6](https://www.wowow.co.jp/detail/018773) Reviewers on Eiga.com noted that the battle scenes reproduce Sengoku-period fighting more carefully than many live-action films, and that the film weaves the absurdity of real social life into a story aimed at young audiences.[7](https://eiga.com/movie/40519/review/)\n\nThe Japan Media Arts Festival awarded it the Grand Prize in the Animation Division of its 6th edition. The jury's citation praised the series for maintaining quality that adults can fully enjoy while marketed as children's entertainment, and singled out this film for letting children take the lead without pandering to the child audience.[3](https://www.bunka.go.jp/j-mediaarts-festival/award/single/crayon-shin-chan-arashi-wo-yobu-appare-sengoku-daikassen-the-storm-called-the-battle-of-the-warring-states/) User ratings have remained favorable: Filmarks records an average of 4.1 from tens of thousands of reviews, with readers highlighting the tearful ending and the tragic love across social ranks.[8](https://filmarks.com/movies/4140)\n\n## Legacy\n\nThe film's standing led to a live-action remake: *BALLAD: Namonaki Koi no Uta* (2009), directed by Takashi Yamazaki, was based on this film and removed the [Shin-chan](https://www.edgepedia.org/shin-chan) character.[4](https://img-lib.musabi.ac.jp/search/document/detail-work/26890) • [8](https://filmarks.com/movies/4140) Screenwriter Kazuki Nakajima, speaking with Hara at a talk event, called the film a landmark of the series and regretted not having seen the finished film before writing his own work.[9](https://toretame.jp/a-dialogue-between-hara-keiichi-and-nakajima-kazuki/)\n\n## References\n\n1. [映画 クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶ アッパレ!戦国大合戦 : 作品情報・キャスト・あらすじ, 映画.com](https://eiga.com/movie/40519/)\n2. [映画クレヨンしんちゃんの歴史と脚本の傾向, 街河ヒカリ (note)](https://note.com/yokogao/n/nefe7b77afdc2)\n3. [クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶ アッパレ！戦国大合戦, 第6回 Japan Media Arts Festival](https://www.bunka.go.jp/j-mediaarts-festival/award/single/crayon-shin-chan-arashi-wo-yobu-appare-sengoku-daikassen-the-storm-called-the-battle-of-the-warring-states/)\n4. [クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶ アッパレ！戦国大合戦, Musashino Art University Museum & Library image library](https://img-lib.musabi.ac.jp/search/document/detail-work/26890)\n5. [映画クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶ アッパレ！戦国大合戦, KINENOTE](https://sp.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=32925)\n6. [映画クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶアッパレ！戦国大合戦, WOWOWオンライン](https://www.wowow.co.jp/detail/018773)\n7. [映画 クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶ アッパレ!戦国大合戦のレビュー・感想・評価, 映画.com](https://eiga.com/movie/40519/review/)\n8. [クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶアッパレ！戦国大合戦, Filmarks映画](https://filmarks.com/movies/4140)\n9. [クレヨンしんちゃん映画『戦国大合戦』が名作になった理由（原恵一監督×中島かずき トークショー）, トレタメ](https://toretame.jp/a-dialogue-between-hara-keiichi-and-nakajima-kazuki/)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Films by genre, form, and subject › Animated and short films › Japanese anime features › Released 1999 to 2013*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/crayon-shin-chan-the-storm-called-the-battle-of-the-warring-states", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/crayon-shin-chan-the-storm-called-the-battle-of-the-warring-states.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. 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