Naruto season 4

The fourth season of the Naruto anime television series, labelled as the "4th Stage" in the Japanese DVD release, is directed by Hayato Date, and produced by Studio Pierrot and TV Tokyo. Based on Masashi Kishimoto's manga series, the season follows Naruto and his friends assigning on different short missions, after Sasuke Uchiha joins up with Orochimaru. The episodes aired in Japan from July 6, 2005, to May 3, 2006, on TV Tokyo.

The English dub was shown on both Cartoon Network's Toonami and YTV's Bionix programming blocks from February 23 to July 26, 2008.

Sony Pictures Entertainment collected the episodes in a total of twelve DVD volumes, each containing four episodes, between January 1 and December 6, 2006. Only the first three episodes were released by Viz Media in DVD volumes, leaving to DVD boxes that collected the entire series.

Eight pieces of theme music are used in the episodes; three opening themes and five ending themes. The opening themes are "No Boy No Cry" (ノーボーイ·ノークライ) by Stance Punks (used for episodes 132 to 153), "Namikaze Satellite" (波風サテライト) by Snowkel (used for episodes 154 to 178), and "Re:member" by Flow (used for episode 179). The ending themes are "Nakushita Kotoba" (失くした言葉) by No Regret Life (used for episodes 132 to 141), "Speed" by Analog Fish (used for episodes 142 to 153), "Soba ni Iru Kara" (そばにいるから) by Amadori (used for episodes 154 to 165), "Parade" (パレード) by Chaba (used for episodes 166 to 178), and "Yellow Moon" by Akeboshi (used for episode 179). The English version replaces the endings with an instrumental version of "Rise" by Jeremy Sweet and Ian Nickus.