Yes. There are alot of fillers in the anime that arent in the manga.The anime tends to stretch events out over loads of episodes, such as naruto's rasen-shruiken training (That was about 4-5 episodes...
There are many of them: Sarutobi Sasuke (a character from children stories) appeared in Naruto Goemon Ishikawa, the Sanada Ten Braves, Hanzo Hattori, Murumasa, Masamune, Kaguya-hime, Suzako Genbu...