The Mysterious Old Man Disappearance Case

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Episode 152 (Int. Episode 162)
Information
Title:	The Mysterious Old Man Disappearance Case
Japanese title:	謎の老人失踪事件 (Nazo no Rōjin Shissō Jiken)
Original airdate:	July 12, 1999
Broadcast rating:	19.6%
Filler case:	#56
Season:	6
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Hiroshi Agasa Kogoro Mouri Wataru Takagi Juzo Megure Miwako Sato Detective Kobayashi Detective Yamamoto Detective Kojima Azusa Enomoto Ninzaburo Shiratori Tatsuya Kimura Mieko Shibazaki Katsumi Yamada
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Windowpane
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama (chief)
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Yoshio Suzuki
Episode director:	Yoshio Suzuki
Animation director:	Izumi Shimura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Yasuhiro Moriki (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Next Conan's Hint Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki, Next Conan's Hint Nobuaki Sekine as Juukichi Shitara Isshin Chiba as Bus driver Mikiko Enomoto as Receptionist Kouichi Nagano as Cleaning staff Jin Hirao as Taxi driver Kazuhiro Nakata as Man in the coat A Takashi Nagasako as Man in the coat B Wataru Takagi as Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Girigiri chop
Closing song:	Still for your love

The Mysterious Old Man Disappearance Case (謎の老人失踪事件 ,Nazo no Rōjin Shissō Jiken) is the 152nd episode of Detective Conan anime.

Characters introduced

Azusa Enomoto
	23 years old Worker at the Café Poirot

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Hiroshi Agasa Kogoro Mouri Wataru Takagi Juzo Megure Miwako Sato Ninzaburo Shiratori Detective Kobayashi Detective Yamamoto Detective Kojima Tatsuya Kimura (poster) Mieko Shibazaki (poster) Katsumi Yamada (poster)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Earring Cellphone Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes

Case

Situation

While on the bus home, Ran meets an old man who later disappears. Later she finds a MO disk in her purse with secret information about fraud involving several companies. Conan realizes the old man must've been followed and captured. Sonoko is kidnapped, in a case of mistaken identity for having Ran's bag at the time.

Kidnapping
	Location: Warehouse Victim: Juukichi Shitara and Sonoko Suzuki Age: 70 years old (Juukichi) Suspects: Men in coats

People

Juukichi Shitara
	Victim (kidnapped) 70 years old Mysterious old man

Man #1
	Man in the coat Man #2's accomplice

Man #2
	Man in the coat Man #1's accomplice

Man #3
	Heian Bus driver

Man #4
	Heian Bus cleaning staff

Man #5
	Taxi driver

Man #6
	Kitamachi Sales Office receptionist

Woman
	Muromachi Hospital receptionist

Resolution

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Conan follows the kidnapper and creates a situation so that he has the upper hand and knocks out the men, saving Sonoko and discovering that the old man was an employee of Beika Construction involved in illegal activities, but gathered the evidence against them to take to Kogoro.

Attemped murder
290px	Location: Warehouse Victim: Conan Edogawa Culprits: Men in coats The man in coat with knife to stab Conan, but the boy kick the wing mirror strike them.

Aftermath

In the end, it turned out Ran did see the old man before. He was in fact a regular client of Café Poirot, and thus knew her and her father's name.

Trivia

• The two kidnappers' car is a 1995 dark blue Toyota Crown Majesta (S150). The license plate is 米花４０, め 41-43 (Beika 40, Me 41-43).

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	ギリギリchop	Girigiri chop	On the edge chop	Girigiri chop
2	のんびり気分	Nonbiri Kibun	Carefree Feeling	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
3	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	陰謀	Inbō	Conspiracy	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
7	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
9	忍び寄る危機	Shinobiyoru Kiki	Incoming Crisis	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
10	「名探偵コナン」メイン・テーマ （予告）	"Meitantei Konan" Mein・Tēma (Yokoku)	"Detective Conan" Main Theme (Preview)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
12	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love
13	コナンの勝利	Konan no Shōri	Conan's Victory	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

Gallery

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  Lex poster in Sonoko's bedroom

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	اختفاء الرجل العجوز	The Disappearance of the Old Man
Bahasa Indonesia	Kasus Hilangnya Kakek Tua Misterius	The Mysterious Old Man Disappearance Case
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El cas de la desaparició de l'avi misteriós	The disappearance of the mysterious grandfather case
Catalan (Valencian dub)	La desaparició de l'ancià	The disappearance of the elderly man
French	La Disparition du vieil homme	The disappearance of the old man
Galician	O vello que desapareceu	The old man who dissapeared
German	Dunkle Geschäfte	Dark Business
Italian	Per amor di giustizia	For the Sake of Justice
Spanish (American dub)	El caso de la misteriosa desaparición del anciano	The mysterious disappearance of a elderly man case
Spanish (Castilian dub)	La desaparición del anciano	The disappearance of the elderly man
Thai	คดีชายชราลึกลับหายตัว	The case of a mysterious old man disappeared
Vietnamese	Vụ án biến mất bí ẩn của một ông lão	The Mysterious Old Man Disappearance Case

See also

• Season 6