Crayon Shin-chan: Fierceness That Invites Storm! The Battle of the Warring States  The film was produced by Shin-Ei Animation, the studio behind the anime television. Its only screening in the US was in April 26, 2014 in Japanese with English subtitles as Crayon Shin Chan: Bravo! Samurai Battle! at the Embassy of Japan. It was released as Crayon Shinchan The Movie: Battle in the Daimyo Era with English subtitles on VCD and DVD by PMP Entertainment. A Japanese live-action movie based on this movie called Ballad (BALLAD 名もなき恋のうた) was released in 2009. Out of all the long-running anime film franchises (Detective Conan, Doraemon, One Piece, Dragon Ball, Pokémon, etc.), it is the only anime film to ever win Grand Prize in the Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Division, even within the Crayon Shin Chan series. Writer Kazuki Nakashima of Gurren Lagann fame also praised this film, even calling it a 'masterpiece'.