

I really love the closing theme song “Time After Time ~In the City of Whirling Blossoms” ~by Mai Kuraki (倉木麻衣) and its artwork representing the famous places in Kyoto during the theme song. Will Heiji be able to rescue Kazuha successfully? Whenever Heiji involves in any of Conan’s films, it gets extra interesting!
WATCH DETECTIVE CONAN MOVIE 8 SERIAL
While Conan and Heiji are investigating this series of the murder cases hand in hand, the threat of the serial killer approaches to Kazuha. Several members of Genji-botaru (源氏蛍), a band of thieves targeting Japanese antiquities, have been killed by the culprit wearing a Noh mask. Crossroad in the Ancient Capital brought a box office income of 3.2 billion in 2003. This film is actually my favorite out of all the Conan’s films, and it inspired me to choose to visit a specific shrine in Kyoto during my school trip in my middle school. If you would like to immerse yourself in learning Japanese history and the famous anecdotes of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経), Crossroad in the Ancient Capital is the best one for you to start with. Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital (名探偵コナン 迷宮のクロスロード), 2003 Whether Conan gets to meet Sherlock Holmes or not, that is the question…ģ. In this film, the two murder cases in the reality and VR world collide and interact with each other. In order to get out of the game, Conan decides to solve the murder cases that occurred in London during the turn-of-century where the famous serial killer, Jack the Ripper (JTR), gained public notoriety. Right after they log into the virtual world, they end up being locked up by the scheme of the computer virus called Noah’s Ark. Considering the fact that this film was released earlier in the 2000s, it received a high reputation and achieved a great commercial success.Ĭonan and his friends are invited to the prerelease event of the VR game of Cocoon (コクーン).


In terms of the box-office sales, this film marked the 7th out of all the Conan films. The Phantom of Baker Street is the 6th film of Conan series. If you label yourself as a Sherlockian, you should start with this movie!! There are numerous references to the original stories of Sherlock Holmes in this film that you might enjoy. As one might expect, the sequence of murder cases collides with Kazuha’s karuta tournament, and then, …. While Conan and Heiji engage themselves in the investigation of this case, Kazuha Toyama (遠山和葉), Heiji’s girlfriend (?), ends up participating in the big karuta tournament. In the film, Conan and Heiji Hattori (服部平次), a Osaka-native high school detective, are dragged into the series of murders surrounding the figures belonging to a competitive karuta organization, the Satsuki-kai (皐月会). This collection was turned into a form of competitive karuta game, which Japanese people seasonally play nowadays. Hyakunin Isshu is a petite anthology of classical Japanese poems, which contains 100 poems written by 100 poets, compiled by Fujiwara no Teika (藤原定家) in the 13th century.

The theme of this film is Hyakunin Isshu 百人一首 ( One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each). The recent Conan’s films have been successively breaking a record of the box-office sales of the previous year, and Crimson Love Letter renewed the record which became the fifth time in a row. According to (映画.com, ), Crimson Love Letter established a box-office record of 6.8 billion yen. Starting off with the second latest film Crimson Love Letter, which came out on April 15, 2017, this film marked its commercial success with the highest box-office revenue among all the other Japanese films in 2017. The official trailer of Crimson Love Letter
