Since 1997, there has been an animated Detective Conan movie released during Golden Week each year. With the exception of the first movie, all Detective Conan movies have been among of the highest-grossing movies in the year it was screened in Japan.
Detective Conan: The Time-Bombed Skyscraper
Meitantei Conan Tokei-jikake no matenrō
Aired: April 19, 1997
Summary:
In this movie, it’s Shinichi’s birthday (May 4). He was invited by Prof. Leo Joel to a party; not knowing that Shinichi had shrunken into Conan. Few days before his birthday, he receives a call from a strange man, who seems to be challenging Shinichi. He tells Conan (Shinichi) to find several bombs all over Tokyo. Later, Conan finds out that the bomber was Prof. Leo Joel, who was an Architect. He was planning to destroy his creations that has flaws from his British style of architecture. Ran, who was waiting for Jimmy in the cinema (She had invited him to see a movie on his birthday) was caught inside the building when a bomb exploded. Conan tries to rescue Ran but because of the explosion, the path to Ran is blocked by a door that is locked permanently. Conan used the voice-changer bow-tie and talked to Ran as Shinichi. He called Ran and she replied from beyond the door. Conan (with Shinichi’s voice) asked her if she sees something strange around there inside and she saw the huge and heavy time-bomb. He instructed Ran how to deactivate it. As she follows what Shinichi says, the last wire to be cut is to be decided by Ran. Since RED and BLUE were the remaining wires, she chose the blue one to be cut because the movie they were going to see was about two people who loved each other being connected by a red cord. They ended up safe.
Detective Conan: The Fourteenth Target
Meitantei Conan Jūyon banme no Tagetto
Aired: April 18, 1998
In this movie, Ran has a nightmare about her mother dying and starts to regain specific memories about the event. Meanwhile, people who have some relation to “The Great” Mouri Kogoro have been attacked. All of the victims’ names correspond to a playing card. These people were targeted in order, from King down to Ace. The police conclude that the attacker wants revenge on Richard Moore, but as these injuries become murders, Conan realizes that it is a race to predict who the next victim will be. He soon discoverers something quite different from what the police suspected, while learning about an incident from 10 years ago.
Detective Conan: The Last Wizard of The Century
Meitantei Conan Seikimatsu no Majutsushi
Aired: April 17, 1999
The story begins with Ayumi watching a vampire movie late at night in her apartment. At her mother’s insistence, the little girl goes to bed, but is awoken minutes later by the sound of Kaitou Kid landing on her balcony. After a brief conversation, Kid flies off, pursued by the police (who are lead by 8Inspector Nakamori). The next day, she discusses the meeting with her friends, and Ai Haibara asks Conan what the “Heisei Holmes” intends to do. Conan retorts that Kid will be caught eventually. The movie then cuts away to a massive meeting at the metropolitan police department (which Kogoro is attending as well), headed by the superintendent of investigation, Shintaro Chaki. Chaki states that they have received a note from Kid stating his next crime, marked “From the dusk of the lion to the dawn of the virgin, when the clock without the second hand is pointing toward the twelfth letter, I shall take the memories’ egg, from the shining sky chamber”. The note is signed “The Last Wizard of the Century”.
Detective Conan: Captured In Her Eyes
Meitantei Conan Hitomi no Naka no Ansatsusha
Aired: April 22, 2000
Police officers are targeted and being killed one by one by an unknown person. Thinking the suspect is related with the police force, the police has been keeping quiet about the situation. When the third victim, officer Sato is critically injured by this killer, Ran is the only eye-witness. Suffering from traumatic shock, she loses her memory of everything that happened previously in her life. As a result, the killer now knows that Ran has seen his/her face, s/he must get rid of the sole eye witness. Conan must find the murderer while protecting Ranand his true identity.
As part of a plan to restore Ran’s memories, Kogoro and Sonoko take Ran to Tropical Land. Conan is not informed of this, however, and concerns himself with the investigation of the case. Professor Agasa and the Detective Boys (Ayumi, Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ai) also go to Tropical Land. At Tropical Land, one of the suspects approaches Kogoro and Ran. The man is stopped, due to the combined efforts of the Detective Boys and taken in for questioning by Kogoro. As it turns out, the man was merely attempting to talk to Kogoro- and the murderer is still at large. Meanwhile, Conan discovers who the real murderer is. Realizing that Ran is in grave danger, Conan rushes off to Tropical Land and searches for Ran. When he finally catches sight of Ran, Ran is already being targeted by the murderer. Conan contacts the Detective Boys via the badge communicator and Ran is saved by Agasa. Thoroughly frightened, Ran runs off, with both the murderer and Conan in pursuit. Conan eventually catches up to Ran, and they tried to escape from the murderer together.
Quote: Because I love you. I love you more than anyone else in this world. (Soooo sweeeeet :])
Detective Conan: Countdown To Heaven
Meitantei Conan Tengoku e no Kauntodaun
Aired: April 21, 2001
As a pair of towers in Tokyo are being prepared for their grand opening, there is a series of murders of people connected to the towers. Conan suspects that the mysterious B.O. may also be involved. The detective boys with Dr. Agasa are there for camping while they meet up with Ran, Sonoko, and Kogoro Mouri. Mouri was invited by his classmate Tokiwa Mio who is the owner of the Tokiwa corporation. However, there are a series of murders and a sake cup is left as a clue by the murderer. The victims were Mr.Ooki and Mr.Hara, the hacker and game programmer (he was killed by Gin for hacking into the Black Organization data into the Tokiwa corporations computers. He also creates a machine which shows the face of the user from ten years later. It shows an error for Conan and Haibara. Ayumi tells Ran that she really likes Conan but her ‘woman’s intuition’ tells her Conan likes Ran. Mitch tells Ran that he likes both Ayumi and Ai.
The third victim was Ms. Tokiwa Mio herself. She was killed on the opening ceremony. All of them were killed by the painter Mr. Kiseragi because the tower obstructed his view of Fuji mountain, which he spent his life-time painting. The black organization plants bombs in the building to both destroy the Tokiwa Corporation computers and thinking Shiho Miyano a.k.a was there but mistake Sonoko for her and tried to shoot her in the lift (because she got a perm as Haibara has which made her look like Shiho). Gin was able to track down Haibara because of her strange habit of calling her deceased sister’s telephone and later deleting the message. Ran save both her and Conan’s life by jumping off the building with ropes tied to their waists and kicked open a window using momentum. Upon discovering the children are still on the tower, Conan breaks his skateboard in the movie jumping to the other side of the bridge which was blasted to save his friends. They find themselves in a room full of bombs and use the car which Mouri won in the Guessing 30 seconds game. Using the fact that Ayumi can count exact 30 seconds when Conan is beside her the count for the right timing and jump to the other building in the car along with Mr. Kiseragi who became unconscious after Conan shot him with his watch because he was about to commit suicide. Haibara decides to sacrifice her life but Genta and Mitsuhiko save her. The story ends with everyone reaching safe and sound into the pool while Kogoro discovers that his car is in the pool.
Detective Conan: The Phantom of The Baker Street
Meitantei Conan Beikā Sutorīto no Bōrei
Aired: April 20, 2002
Conan, Ai, Ran and The Detective Boys are 6 out of the 50 chosen kids to try a new virtual reality game. Conan and his friends enter London in the 19th century. But soon after all the kids head into the game, Noah’s Ark (A highly developed AI program) closes all exits to the game. Now the innocent game is a matter of life and death. If the kids don’t finish the game, they’re all going to die. One by one the kids “die” in the game, and soon Conan & co solve the puzzle to find out who can catch Jack The Ripper and save them all.
Detective Conan: Crossroad In The Ancient Capital
Meitantei Conan Meikyū no Kurosurōdo
Aired: April 19, 2003
Heiji Hattori tries to find a girl he saw when he was little. She was playing outside a temple, and he fell in love with her. Several murders have happened in Kyoto, and Kogoro, Ran, Conan and Sonoko go there to solve the case. There, they meet Heiji and Kazuha. The killer seems to be after Heiji and he tries to kill him several times, and injures Heiji very badly once. Kazuha gets kidnapped, but when Heiji collapses, Conan finds a way to turn back into Shinichi for a short time (He is given a pill by Haibara which will give him the symptoms of a cold, then drinks a bottle of the Chinese wine that temporarily turned him back to seventeen years old before). He disguises himself as Heiji in an attempt to arrest the killer and save Kazuha. But then Heiji comes again, and Shinichi knows that he is changing back. In the woods, he meets Ran and shoots Ran unconscious with his watch to prevent her from seeing him change back into Conan. During that time, Heiji was kendo fighting the guy, but when Kazuha was in trouble, Conan appears and saves her by kicking sticks of fire at the enemies. Conan does another deed when Heiji was falling off the roof, kicked a soccer ball at the enemy and gives Heiji time to come back. In the end, Heiji finds out that the girl he saw and in which he fell in love with, was Kazuha all along when Kazuha sang the song in his memory and admits she was there. Except that Kazuha doesn’t know that Heiji saw her.
Detective Conan: Magician of The Silver Sky
Meitantei Conan Gin-yoku no Majishan
Aired: April 17, 2004
A stage actress, Julie wants to use her star sapphire for her upcoming play and asks for Kogoro Mouri’s help to protect it after showing Kogoro a letter from Kaitou Kid. On the day of the theft, Kid appears at the theatre disguised up as Shinichi Kudo but ends up fleeing in the end without the jewel. To thank them, Julie invites Kogoro and everyone to Hakodate, and they all travel on an airplane to get there. In the air, one of the show actor, Shinji, who was supposed to be elsewhere and Ran’s mother, Eri Kisaki, joins them on the plane. As the plane takes off, Julie comes in physical contact with most of the individuals she invited, making them all suspects to her death by consuming a piece of poisoned chocolate, a homicide later found to be committed by her makeup artist, Atsuki.
The captains were also poisoned from Julie and were not able to pilot the plane, so Shinji agrees to take over because he supposedly “took courses”, and appoints Conan to assist him. Conan figures out that Shinji is Kaitou Kid when Conan is asked to assist, as this logic would not apply in a similar situation. The storm and fire at the airport make it impossible to land while the plane fuel is running low. Conan picks a stable area that can support a commercial plane. Ran and Sonoko eventually take over piloting the plane while Kid escapes by jumping off the plane and Conan has to “go to the bathroom.” Conan then switches over to Shinichi’s voice and guides Ran for landing the plane. Ran tells Shinichi that she loves him but ends the moment by telling him that she suddenly sees lights at the site. It turns out that Kid went near the police and uses police cars (because this policeman is obsessed with catching him) as guiding lights to land the plane. All went well, and the movie ends with Ran talking to Shinichi over the phone again arguing about silly things, thinking that it was Kid who guided her to land the plane, and is relieved that “her secret” isn’t out.
Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths
Meitantei Conan Suiheisenjō no Sutoratej
Aired: April 19, 2005
The 9th annual Detective Conan movie sets sail on a 100 million yen luxurious cruise. Fifteen years ago, a cruise named Yashiromaru, built by the Yashiro group, sank while sailing. In the present, a new cruise, the Saint Aphrodite, was built by the Yashiro group and Conan and the rest were invited through Sonoko. Earlier, the husband of the CEO of the Yashiro family group, an established ship architect, had a heart-attack and drove his car down a cliff. On the second day of the cruise, the CEO herself was found murdered in her room. Later, her father, the President of the Yashiro group was also found missing. He had been thrown off the cruise into the ocean, seemingly by the same person. At the welcoming party, Kogorou shows off his deduction skills, and concluded that the sub-designer of the cruise, Akiyoshi, was the murderer. However, Conan has different ideas. Kusaka, a scriptwriter who worked in co-operation with Akiyoshi on a script, was the culprit. Kusaka reveals that the accident from 15 years ago was a scheme to sink the ship deliberately to get insurance. His father was murdered when he discovered the captain of the ship was drugged and left to die. Kusaka immediately set off bombs and escaped by sea and the Detective Boys gave chase. After they successfully took down the criminal, more bombs were ignited. All passengers were evacuated, but Ran returned to her hiding place during the hide-and-seek game to find a “gold medal” made by sea-shells the Detective Boys made for her. However, as the ship swayed, she fainted in the enclosed area.
It turns out Akiyoshi was the main murderer after all, and she was the one who did all three killings and made Kusaka think that he did them himself. She also revealed that her father was the captain who died while the cruise sank. Kogorou, however, deduced correctly this time and managed to arrest Akiyoshi. He was originally trying to find evidence to prove her innocence because of her strong resemblance to his wife, but the more investigation he does, the more guilty she became. As Kogorou and Conan began to evacuate, they found out that Ran was missing. They find her under the deck of the boat with the help of a fire axe. Afterwards a helicopter comes and picks them up. At the post credits, Conan explained he knew where Ran was because when he kicked the volleyball, Ran said she heard a soccer ball, meaning she was in a place with a tough wall. The detective kids come, and told Ran they made a better “gold medal” for her, and put it on her.
Detective Conan: The Private Eyes’ Requiem
Meitantei Conan Tantei-tachi no Requiem
Aired: April 15, 2006
A mysterious man asks Kogoro to go to Yokohama. He asked Ran, Conan and the others go with him. But it was a trap, and Ran and the Detective Boys are taken as hostage. The case, that the mysterious man gave Kogoro, must be solved within 12 hours, or else the bomb, that is worn by Ran and the others, will explode. The criminal also knows that Conan is Shinichi Kudo. Heiji Hattori and Kaito Kid also appear. But who is the criminal? And will Conan and the others manage to save Ran and the Detective Boys?
Detective Conan: Jolly Roger in The Deep Blue Azure
Meitantei Conan Konpeki no Jorī Rojā
Aired: April 27, 2007
Koumijima (Koumi Island) is a beautiful isalnd in the Pacific Ocean. There is a tradition there handed down from ancient times that speaks about an ancient site under the sea called “Sea Floor Palace” and two real pirate women, “Anne Bonney” and “Mary Read” who left a treasurethere 300 years ago.
Conan and the others go to Koumijima Island on a vacation and meet with treasure hunters who have gathered there to search for the treasure. One of those hunters searches for the “Sea floor Palace”, and gets attacked by sharks and dies. Later it is revealed that fish blood was placed on that hunter to attract the sharks. With that, Conan and the gang start to investigate.
Detective Conan: Full Score of Fear
Meitantei Conan Senritsu no Furu Sukoa
Aired: April 19, 2008
The movie opens on a stage of a concert hall where a woman is observing two men during a practice. She sends a message on her cellphone, and then there is an explosion. At the crime scene, the body of a flute was found.
Elsewhere, an unknown person with the classic black silhouette of a man reads the news on the computer and comments on how he is getting closer to his plan of a Silent Night.
Later, on the grounds outside the hall, Conan is talking to Ran on the phone as Shinichi. He investigates and find sees an old man carefully picking up a piano key from the piano destroyed from the explosion, and putting it in his pocket. The man leaves in a car with license plate 52-83. Ran invites him to go to a rehearsal with her at the concert hall that is opening soon. He declines and tells her she’s meddling too much which causes her to angrily reply he will never be like Sherlock Holmes because he’s tone deaf. Ran angrily hangs up and calls Conan asking him what he wants for dinner.
At the rehearsal; Richard, Ran, Sonoko, and the detective boys are introduced to the characters who will be performing for the Doumoto Concert Hall opening; Doumoto Kazuki the organist and former pianist, Fuwa Takumi the former piano tuner turned director of the hall, Hans Müller the professional organ tuner, Doumoto Genya, son of Kazuki and pianist, Chisusa Rara Soprano, Yuhane Shion Violinist, and Akiba Reiko the main Soprano. The kids ask Akiba Reiko to help their class choir to sing their school anthem. She agrees when she learns they are from her alma mater, but asks them to leave immediately, possibly to allow Shion who is shy perform without fear.
Later on Ran is revealed to still be angry at Shinichi. Sonoko comments that this happened before and that she was angry at him for a week. She asks him how she forgave him. Ran remembers how long ago she walks with Shinichi home and remembers a woman singing.
The next day Ran plays the piano while the kids sing the Titan High School anthem. Akiba comments on their performance; Genta is too loud, Mitch is not putting enough feelings into it as he was staring at Ai, Ai is singing like an adult, Ayumi is perfect, and Conan is off key the whole time. She is revealed later to have a perfect pitch. Genta steals a drink of Akiba’s tea and acts in agonizing pain.
At the hospital, the doctor says that Genta’s throat is severe inflamed by chemicals and he will not be able to speak for about four days. The detective kids, Sonoko, and Akiba accompany Genta home. On the way home they are chased by a truck, at one of the turns Akiba takes a different route to get the truck away from them. She trips and is about to be run over until a taxi comes and the car turns. The culprit escapes.
Later, two more murders occur. One explosion kills Kabe Souko, with the foot joint of a flute left on the scene. The other occurs when the paraglider of the victim is inflicted with fine cuts to cause it to plunge from mid-air. In the victim’s car is the headjoint of the flute. These 2 victims, together with the 2 dead victims from the earlier explosion, formerly belonged to a group called the quarter quintet. Conan, indebted to Akiba for a reason he has forgotten, follows her to the forest as she is known to relax there on the day before the concert. She is attacked by a gunner who wounds her leg. They escape when the gunner pauses on shooting the killing shot. She does not report this to the police to avoid missing the concert.
Moore deduces that the murder is Doumoto Genya as a year ago the quarter quintet badly performed the 9th symphony of Beethoven whilst drunk. He assumes Doumoto was a Beethoven fanatic and seeing one of his songs defiled by drunks, murdered them. An evidence he points out was Genya’s hair was cut the same way as Beethoven. Genya reveals he got his hair for his mother and his hair is natural.
At Doumoto Hall, the concert is being prepared. Sonoko says that a balcony is reserved with 10 seats, with one for Shinichi. After rehearsal Conan and Akiba look for Kazuki to tell him a key for the organ is a little flat. Near a lake, she and Conan are knocked out by the assailant with a wrench. They wake up downstream where it would take hours before they are found. They hear an explosion at the Doumoto Hall. Since the Concert Hall is built to be soundproof and stable, the explosions outside could not be heard inside. The explosions are slowly destroying the pillars outside the hall to prevent entry or exit. Conan sees a phone on top of a building. He explains that phones work by hearing pitches of sounds as numbers. He knocks the phone down with the ball and Akiba and Conan exert the right pitch to dial 110, calling the cops.
They take a helicopter and enter the building. There Conan sees the assailant hiding in one of the VIP suites. He explains that the irregular note on the organ sets off an explosion and that there are 24 in total; 23 pillars, 1 in the main hall. He says the concert can’t be interrupted because the assailant is holding a detonator also. Akiba buys time for Conan by interrupting the concert to by singing Amazing Grace which involves only the first set of keys on the organs whilst the detonator key is on the third row.
Conan enters the balcony of the assailant revealing it to be Fuma Takumi. Fuma reveals that the reason he killed the first four people was because his son, Akiba’s fiancé, died indirectly because of them; and his pride as a professional piano tuner was thrown away when Doumoto Kazuki quit playing the piano. Without his son, wife, and pride of being a tuner for a professional pianist, his life was nothing and he wanted to bring silence to the organ which haunted him.
Just then the 24th irregular note was played but the final explosion did not occur. It turns out Conan removed the sensor from the organ before he came to Fuma. Fuma congratulates him and prepares to press the detonator but it was shot out of his hand. Fuma takes out a gun and prepares to kill himself until Kazuki comes and reveals to him the reason he quit as a pianist was to keep Fuma’s pride. Because of Fuma’s old age, his hearing is starting to deteriorate and so was his tuning, to keep his pride he quit being a pianist so he did not have to hurt his friend. Fuma comes to realize this and surrenders peacefully.
While outside the concert, Ran hears Amazing Grace played on a violin. She enters the wood where Conan tells her Shinichi played it to her to be forgiven like that day long ago.
At the post credits, Akiba reveals the song Amazing Grace is a song of forgiveness, a favourite of her late fiancee. She sings it on the anniversary of his death near the river which is why she did not pursue revenge like Fuma did for his son. Conan asks how Ran knew it was Shinichi playing the violin. She replies he has a weird habit when he plays the violin. Conan later in his house’s library plays Amazing Grace to try and find his “strange habit.”
Detective Conan: The Raven Chaser
Meitantei Conan Shikkoku no Chaser
Aired: April 18, 2009
A new member from the Black Organization that shrunk Shinichi’s body manages to find out about Shinichi’s transformation into Conan. This discovery starts to put those around him in danger as Gin and the other Black Organization members starts to take action by eliminating Shinichi and his friends.
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