Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island

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Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island
Directed by Mamoru Hosoda
Written by Masahiro Itō
Starring Mayumi Tanaka
Kazuya Nakai
Akemi Okamura
Kappei Yamaguchi
Hiroaki Hirata
Ikue Ohtani
Yuriko Yamaguchi
Music by Kōhei Tanaka
Kazuhiko Sawaguchi
Minoru Maruo
Editing by Masahiro Gotō
Distributed by Toei
Release date(s) March 5, 2005 (Japan)
Running time 92 minutes
Country Flag of Japan Japan
Language Japanese
Preceded by Curse of the Sacred Sword
Followed by The Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri Castle

One Piece The Movie: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island (ONE PIECE THE MOVIE オマツリ男爵と秘密の島, ~Omatsuri Danshaku to Himitsu no Shima?) is a 2005 Japanese anime film directed by Mamoru Hosoda and written by Masahiro Itō. It is the sixth animated film to be released in the One Piece series. This film features an original story which is separate from the storyline in the anime and manga. The story in this movie takes place after the Davy Back Fight arc and before the Water 7 arc. It was released in theaters on March 5, 2005.

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[edit] Plot

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The Straw Hat crew obtain an advertisement for a recreational island on the Grand Line run by the Baron Omatsuri. Luffy decides to take this opportunity to kick back and relax. Unfortunately, when they arrive at the island, they are asked to compete in contests through unity for access to relaxation. However, there seems to be a mysterious air on the island, as the Straw Hat Pirates begin to fight amongst themselves, while Robin, Chopper, and Luffy individually search for the secret behind Baron Omatsuri's island.

At first, Omatsuri Island appears to be ordinary, uninhabited tropical forest, although Robin notes that there are no flowers blooming anywhere. The Straw Hats press further inland and discover the beautiful resort promised in the brochure. But strangely, all the townsfolk (all of whom are men) have leaves growing from the tops of their heads. The great Baron Omatsuri arrives by elephant and greets the Straw Hats, but demands that they undergo a "test from hell" before being allowed to enjoy the recreational facilities. Against the advice of his crew, the adventurous Luffy accepts the Baron's challenge.

The first test is "goldfish-netting," a typical carnival game. Their opponent is an eel-like man named Muchigoro. The side that catches the most goldfish within three minutes wins; however, the Straw Hats discover that instead of catching several small goldfish with paper nets, they have to catch one giant monster goldfish. At the last moment, the Straw Hats win through great teamwork and the strange flower that sits on the Baron's shoulder declares their victory.

The next test is a game of quoits, played by Zoro, Nami, Usopp, and Sanji. Their opponents are four small, elderly, frog-like people. Each team drives two high-speed boats (with two players on each boat) and attempts to toss hoops onto members of the opposing team. During the race, tensions begin to mount. Sanji and Zoro argue and fight with each other. Then Nami and Usopp's boat catches fire. They open emergency kits that they find on board; Nami's contains two teacups and Usopp's contains a strange glider-like contraption that latches on to his body and takes to the sky.

While airborne, Usopp glimpses an enormous object atop a distant plateau. Meanwhile, Zoro and Sanji attempt to fight the frogmen, but each one gets in the other's way. In the end, Usopp lands the finishing blow, giving the Straw Hats their second win...but Nami is furious at having been abandoned and slaps Usopp across the face, accusing him of having betrayed her. Usopp replies that he thought betrayal was her specialty—which earns him another slap.

Meanwhile, Chopper wanders through a vast cemetery and encounters a family of pirates. The father offers to reveal one of the secrets of the island, if Chopper will pretend to lose a fight to help the father appear brave in front of his children. Chopper agrees, and learns that Baron Omatsuri was once the captain of the Red Arrows pirate crew. An old wanted poster depicts the Red Arrows—all the men on the island, who look no younger than they do at present—with Omatsuri, who is clean-shaven and appears about twenty years younger. Suddenly, the Baron appears and shoots Chopper in the chest with an arrow.

Meanwhile, Robin makes Muchigoro drink with her and tricks him into telling her of the island's only flower, the Lily Carnation. Luffy is approached by a short, mustachioed man named Brief, who invites Luffy to join his Mustache Pirates crew. Although Luffy declines, Brief warns him to beware of the Baron.

Back at the resort, Usopp tells everyone where Chopper is, but everyone is ignoring him. The Baron announces that dinner will be served, and the pool drains to reveal an Olympic-sized teppan. The head chef puts on a show, skating and cooking on the giant griddle. Sanji hears Luffy remark that the food looks delicious, and becomes jealous, challenging the chef to a cooking contest.

Robin, searching for the Lily Carnation, encounters the Baron. Nami continues to give Usopp the cold shoulder and sits at Muchigoro's table. Usopp sulks and wanders into the forest, where he encounters a young boy named DJ Gappa. The boy wants Usopp's hat and becomes enraged when Usopp refuses....

Nami, like Robin, gets Muchigoro intoxicated and pumps him for information on the Baron. During their conversation, Muchigoro is stunned to hear that Gol D. Roger was executed more than twenty years ago. He says that it can't be true; he saw Roger just before the recent storm. With a ghastly expression on his face, he begins to blacken and shrivel before Nami's eyes. The Baron presents Robin to the Lily Carnation, a monstrous black tube that resembles a firework snake. Robin, horrified, asks how it could be a flower, and an arrow races towards her.

Meanwhile, Sanji's pride is wounded because neither Nami nor Robin saw him win the cooking contest. He looks for Robin and realizes that she's nowhere to be found. The others finally notice that Chopper and Usopp are missing too. Sanji and Zoro immediately blame each other. Nami interjects, but finds nothing to say. Sanji then asks Luffy what he intends to do; since it was his decision to come to the island, the burden rests on his shoulders. Luffy, for once, is left speechless.

Soon after, Zoro and Sanji run into DJ, wearing Usopp's hat. When they threaten him to make him tell where Usopp is, the Baron and the rest of the island people attack. Sanji, Zoro and Nami run away to search for the missing crew, while Luffy stays behind to fight the Baron. Luffy is nearly defeated, but is saved by Brief who claims to be the former head of the Moustache Pirates and has built miles of tunnels under the island. Brief explains to Luffy that the Baron's crew were all killed in a storm and he was the only survivor. Now, he hates all close-knit pirate crews and wishes to separate them all. Brief once had a large crew but they were all killed by the Baron.

Zoro encounters DJ and slashes him, but DJ is mysteriously unharmed, and wonders himself how this is possible. The Baron assures DJ that he is simply strong. One by one, Zoro, Sanji and Nami are all captured by the Baron and his men.

Chopper wakes up to see the youngest daughter of the pirate family being pulled up by tendril to the lily carnation. Chopper saves her and is caught instead and when the rest of the family tries to help him, the father cowardly pulls them away. Chopper sees everyone else is lying unconscious at the tip of the lily and then he is pulled in as well.

All of the Red Arrow Pirates are struck with dizziness and go to sleep commenting how strange that is but believing they will still be who they were the next day.

Luffy goes to save his crew but the Baron pins him to a rock and forces him to watch as they are absorbed one by one into the lily. Horrified and blaming himself, he offers no resistance as the Baron motions to shoot him in the head with the arrow. He is saved once again by Brief, but is paralyzed with grief and blame for himself for thoughtlessly accepting Omatsuri's challenge. But Brief claims they are still alive. The family is also there and Daisy, the youngest daughter, claims that she can here their voices calling for Luffy. She also knows their names even though she only met Chopper. Luffy is still doubting but Brief gives him a pep talk which ends with him showing Luffy the sign of the Moustache Pirates, saying the two of them are now friends.

Luffy goes to face the Baron again with renewed determination while Brief distracts the Baron while the family looks on. Luffy protects Brief from an attack and says he will save his crew. He smashes Lily, but at that moment, Daisy says the voices she heard are now coming from somewhere else nearby. A look at the suppossed Lily reveals that it's a fake made out of Baron's arrows. Luffy yells for his friends and Baron laughs bitterly and tells Luffy to look at him. As Luffy watches in horror, the happyface flower on Baron's shoulder mutates into a corpulus mess of stem attached to Baron's back and shoulders with a head similar to a piranna plant. Within the stem, the outline of the Strawhat Pirates can be seen. This is the true Lily carnation, the flower of death and rebirth.

The arrows from the fake Lily all descend on Luffy and he is stabbed in the back with dozens of them. Omatsuri says these arrows represent his days of loneliness after his crew died. He gave himself to the Lily to bring them back and has been feeding it anyone who comes to the island to keep it happy. The sun rises and the Red Arrows awake in town full of energy. Daisy tells Luffy not to give up and he starts hearing his crew calling for him as well. He begins struggling over to the Baron, half-dead and with the arrows still in his back, telling him to give him back his crew. The Baron is so shocked he can do nothing but stare at Luffy.

The family's father asks Daisy if she can really hear them and she says that she heard his and Chopper's conversation, and she also still believes in her father. This inspires him to pick up the Baron's discarded bow and take aim. The Lily head notices and turns to face him, scaring him into a stupor, but he summons his courage and fires the arrow right through Lily's head,killing it instantly. The Baron snaps out of his trance to gaze at Lily's ruin in horror and at the moment the arrows disappear and Red Arrows pirates return to their true forms: flower roots.

Omatsuri fall to Lily's remains in tears trying to put it back together,knowing what has happened with it dead. However Luffy comes right next to him and punches him in the face,sending him flying. The camera pans to the Red Arrows posters and he hears the voices of his crew. They thank him for remembering them, but mention that the storm didn't kill them, implying, but not saying, that it was Lily who killed them so it could have Omatsuri as a slave (although not every adaption of this movie uses this translation. In some translations this isn't said at all). They say they won't mind if Omatsuri finds a new crew, like the Strawhats.

Luffy wakes up to the family and Brief who are hovering over him. He thanks them for their help, but Brief says that it is he should be thankful. Brief has seen his crew avenged, the family kids are now proud of their dad and when Luffy asks about his crew he see them waking up a little distance away. They seem to have forgotten a good part of the adventure, though Chopper remembers Daisy, and goes to see why Luffy is sleeping on the floor by himself. Robin notices Omatsuri's goggles by a rock along with three small flowers, while the others gather around Luffy and ask him what he's doing. He says nothing but smiles and laughs mischievously.

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Movie 6 is quite different from the regular TV series in terms of animation style, character drawings and mood of the story. Instead of the usual light-hearted, sunshine feel, this movie is quite dark and probably not suitable for younger children. Some fans even commented that the climax is quite "freaky".

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