The Phantom of Baker Street

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Movie 6
Official trailer
Information
Title:	The Phantom of Baker Street
English Title:	The Phantom of Baker Street
Japanese Title:	名探偵コナン ベイカー街の亡霊 (Meitantei Konan: Beikaa Sutoriito no Bōrei)
Original airdate:	April 20, 2002
English airdate:	February 16, 2010
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Yusaku Kudo Yukiko Kudo Detective Boys Ai Haibara Hiroshi Agasa Kogoro Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Juzo Megure Kazunobu Chiba Ninzaburo Shiratori Shinichi Kudo Toshio Moroboshi Unnamed officer Unnamed officer Shimizu Ryuichi Sakai Hitomi Reiko Kishida Aiko Gin Vodka
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa (videogame case) Yusaku Kudo (real murder case)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Hisashi Nozawa
Storyboard:	Kenji Kodama
Technical Director:	Nana Harada
Animation director:	Masatomo Sudo (chief) Junko Yamanaka Seiji Muta (asst.) Yoshiharu Shimizu (action)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Hideyuki Tanaka as Yusaku Kudo Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Chafurin as Juzo Megure Kazuhiko Inoue as Ninzaburo Shiratori Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ai Orikasa as Hiroki Sawada Megumi Ogata as Hideki Moroboshi Urara Takano as Shinya Takizawa Rikako Aikawa as Akira Emori Mitsuki Saigo as Seiichiro Kikugawa Hiroaki Hirata as Tadaaki Kashimura Yuzuru Fujimoto as Colonel Moran Eisuke Yoda as Tetsunosuke Emori Ryuichi Horibe as Toshio Moroboshi Kiyoshi Kobayashi as Professor Moriarty Sho Hayami as Jack the Ripper Sumi Shimamoto as Irene Adler Kei Hayami as Mrs. Hudson Katsuhisa Hoki as Mysterious Vagrant Toshihiko Nakajima as Gambler Masane Tsukayama as Thomas Schindler Takashi Nagasako as Assembly Hall Staff Ryuzo Hasuike as Chairperson Yasunori Masutani as Schindler's bodyguard Osamu Hosoi as Schindler's bodyguard Kazusa Murai as Shimizu Asako Dodo as Announcement MAI as Caster
Music
Theme song:	Everlasting
Soundtrack:	Detective Conan "The Phantom of Baker Street" Original Soundtrack
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Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa Yusaku Kudo Ran Mouri Shinichi Kudo (flashback) Yukiko Kudo Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Hiroshi Agasa Kogoro Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Juzo Megure Kazunobu Chiba Ninzaburo Shiratori Shimizu Toshio Moroboshi Unnamed officer Unnamed officer Ryuichi Sakai (flashback) Hitomi (flashback) Reiko (flashback) Kishida (flashback) Aiko (flashback) Gin (Yukiko's disguise) Vodka (Yusaku's disguise)

Case

Situation

A TV program introduces Hiroki Sawada, a ten-year old computer prodigy. The reporter explains that Hiroki is already in graduate school at MIT. He has developed a DNA-tracker software and is now about to complete his second major project, an artificial mind called Noah's Ark. Since Hiroki's mother died, he has been looked after by Thomas Schindler, CEO of Schindler Inc., an influential software company. Schindler recognised Hiroki's enormous talent and encouraged him to develop it further, putting him under a rigorous study program with little free time or time to be a child.

Hiroki, who has been watching the program about himself, turns his TV off and goes back to his computer, putting the finishing touches on Noah's Ark. Once he is satisfied, he sends the artificial intelligence on his way and his computer shows the message "Noah's Ark sailed away", which also triggers an alarm in the building he is working in. A security guard notices the alarm and calls Thomas Schindler. Together, they try to enter Hiroki's room. When they finally manage to open the door, Hiroki is nowhere to be found. Dismayed, Schindler sees Hiroki's shoes on the balcony and has to conclude the inevitable - Hiroki committed suicide by jumping off the balcony.

Suicide (Past)
	Location: Schindler Building, Massachusetts, USA Victim: Hiroki Sawada Age: 10 years old Time: Two years ago Cause of death: Falling With too much pressure on him, Hiroki decides to commit suicide since it wasn't the childhood he wanted before jumping from the top of the building.

His computer screen shows a sailing boat on water and a message that reads: "Goodbye from Hiroki":

Two years later, Schindler Inc. presents its newest product at Beika City hall - a virtual reality game system called Cocoon. Many children attend the presentation, hoping they are among the lucky ones who are allowed to test Cocoon for the first time. To be included among the first players, the children have to obtain a special badge that was quite expensive. Conan, Ayumi, Genta, Ai and Mitsuhiko watch the crowd sadly, realising none of them could afford to pay for it, when Professor Agasa and Yusaku Kudo join them. Agasa hands Conan a badge and says it was paid for for his parents and that his mother Yukiko could not join them because she has a class reunion.

The other Detective Boys trade Golden Kamen Yaiba Cards with some other children in exchange for a Cocoon badge. So, all five of them end up being called up for the game tests.

Meanwhile, CEO Schindler gets into an argument with Tadaaki Kashimura, one of his top programmers, in the basement of City Hall. Schindler stabs Kashimura fatally and leaves. In his dying moments, Kashimura dips his finger into his own blood and leaves a message for the police. He presses the letters "J", "T" and "R" on the keyboard before he sinks back dead.

Murder
	Location: Beika City Hall - Basement Victim: Tadaaki Kashimura Age: 39 years old Cause of death: Stab wound Culprit: Thomas Schindler Kashimura presses the "J","T" & "R" keyboard keys with a bloody finger, leaving a dying message.

Conan finds the body and decides to actually join the Cocoon test as well, recognising that there might be a clue to the murderer's identity in the game. Yusaku, who was consulted by Kashimura when they developed the game, realises "JTR" has to mean "Jack the Ripper":

Murders (Past)

Location: Whitechapel district, London Victims: Emma Elizabeth Smith (Incertae), Martha Tabram, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly, Rose Mylett (Incertae), Alice McKenzie, Unidentified Woman (Incertae) and Frances Coles Age: 45 years old, 39 years old, 43 years old, 47 years old, 44 years old, 46 years old, 25 years old, 29 years old, 40 years old, 30-40 years old and 25 years old Cause of death: Stab wounds, Slash wounds, and throat slits Culprit: Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper was a well known serial killer in London who killed at least 7 people in Whitechapel district. He was never identified.

Among great interest from the audience, Cocoon is turned on and the children are instructed to sit into special chairs fitted with virtual reality glasses. Thomas Schindler explains that participants in Cocoon are put into a trance-like state to fully immerse themselves in the game. Suddenly, the system comes alive and a computer-generated voice explains that it is "Noah's ark" and has taken control of the program to "reset Japan". Most of the children participating in the game come from wealthy and influential families and Noah's Ark explains that it is challenging that status quo. Two parents try to get their children out of the chairs but a sudden burst of electricity shocks them as they try to open the cover of the seats. Noah's Ark further explains that it has modified the virtual games so they are more challenging and the children have to play them. If all children fail, the artificial intelligence will kill them with an electromagnetic burst, but they are allowed to leave if one child wins their game.

Hostage taking

Location: Beika City Hall Victims: The fifty kids participating in the Cocoon demonstration Age: 5-17 years old Weapon: Locking into the Cocoons Culprit: Noah's Ark Artificial Intelligence The children are locked into the Cocoons and the adults are threatened so that they cannot open them. The children must play the virtual reality games which have been modified so they are more difficult. Noah's Ark will kill all fifty kids with an electromagnetic burst if all of them fail, but as long as one child wins, then they may all go free.

The participants are

The kids in the demonstration are given a choice of five stages in the game, and Conan and the Detective Boys choose the final stage, a re-creation of an 1800 London mystery. In the beginning of the game, Conan discovers that Agasa's inventions don't work. After receiving a hint from Prof.Agasa they decide to go to Sherlock Holmes for help. As they near 221B Baker Street they meet a strange accordion playing vagrant who sings a strange song, but they shrug it off. Conan and his friends arrive at 221b Baker Street, only to find that Holmes and Watson are at Dartmoor. Mistaken for the Baker Street Irregulars by Mrs Hudson, they are invited inside. Ran finds Sherlock's investigation notes on Jack the Ripper, which implies that Jack is highly likely to have a connection to Professor Moriarty. Since finding the Professor is next to impossible, the kids decide to talk to his right hand man Colonel Moran at his favorite hang-out to find out the Professor's location. After causing a brawl and losing Mitsuhiko, Ayumi and Genta, Conan forces the Colonel into a standoff by holding Moriarty's wine hostage. It is at this moment an elderly gentleman comes and announces that Professor Moriarty requests an audience with the group. After being led to another gentleman in a carriage, Conan calls out Moriarty for testing them; Moriarty was the gentleman who led them there. After explaining their situation, Moriarty reveals that he found and trained Jack the Ripper when Jack was a street urchin. The professor promises the children an opportunity to bring Jack down by posting a message in the next day's newspaper to kill someone, but refuses to name the victim-to-be, telling them they'd find out by reading the paper. The next day after reading the paper they realize the next victim is to be Irene Adler, the only woman Holmes ever loved.

Attempted Murder (Virtual Reality)
	Location: Royal Opera House, London Victim: Irene Adler character Cause of death: Falling debris Culprit: Jack the Ripper The stage Irene was on collapsed but Shinya and Akira saved her.

People

Hiroki Sawada
	Deceased (fell) 10 years old (2 years ago) Boy genius

Thomas Schindler
	52 years old Tsar of the IT Industry

Seiichiro Kikukawa
	11 years old Playwright's son

Hideki Moroboshi
	12 years old Toshio Moroboshi's grandson

Akira Emori
	11 years old Financial group and bank president's grandson

Shinya Takizawa
	11 years old Ruling party politician's son

Tadaaki Kashimura
	Victim (stabbed) 39 years old In charge of Game Development

Tetsunosuke Emori
	Financial group and bank president Akira's paternal grandfather

Mr. Kikukawa
	Playwright Seiichiro's father

Mr. Takizawa
	Ruling party politician Shinya's father

Game characters

Jack the Ripper
	Unidentified serial killer from Victorian era London

Sherlock Holmes
	Virtual reality character Detective from Arthur Conan Doyle's novel Modeled after Yusaku Kudo

Doctor John H. Watson
	Virtual reality character Holmes' assistant Modeled after Professor Agasa

Mrs. Hudson
	Virtual reality character Holmes' landlady

Irene Adler
	Virtual reality character Actress Holmes' love Modeled after Yukiko Kudo

Colonel Sebastian Moran
	Virtual reality character Moriarty's right hand man

Professor James Moriarty
	Virtual reality character Holmes' nemesis and crime lord

Mysterious Vagrant
	Virtual reality character

Gambler
	Virtual reality character

Resolution

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The identity of Jack the Ripper revealed by Conan.

It is revealed by Yusaku that while he and Tadaaki Kashimura were both college friends and partners in developing the game, he was also employed by Kashimura as a detective to investigate the motive behind Hiroki Sawada's suicide. Yusaku also reveals Kashimura was Hiroki's real father. In the real world, Yusaku continues to reveal the truth behind the case. Yusaku reveals that the murderer is the company's president, Thomas Schindler. Schindler is revealed to also be responsible for Hiroki's suicide. Hiroki discovered the DNA of Jack's second victim on a dagger purported to have belonged to Jack himself through his DNA searching program. Schindler realized that it was only a matter of time before Hiroki would consequently discover that Jack's blood now runs through Schindler himself. Schindler then proceeded to isolate and pressure Hiroki further, ultimately leading to Hiroki's suicide. Kashimura was killed because Noah's Ark gave that same data to Kashimura. Schindler is immediately arrested.

While protecting Irene Adler two more children are lost. Ai also loses while protecting Conan, leaving only three: Conan, Ran and another child, Hideki Moroboshi. They follow Jack the Ripper to a runaway train from London Charing Cross, where he dons a disguise and merges with the passengers. Conan correctly deduces which one of the passengers Jack is disguised through the use of Sherlock's notes. After being revealed. Jack throws a smoke bomb while Ran charges him. When the smoke clears Conan and Moroboshi find that everyone is gone. Traveling to the engine room they find that there is no driver and that the train is speeding out of control, with the brakes destroyed. Conan discovers Jack and Ran on the top of the train. There, Jack the Ripper reveals that he has tied himself to Ran and threatens Conan. Ran decides to save Conan and sacrifices herself by jumping off the train and into a ravine, taking Jack the Ripper with her. As Conan begins to lose hope, the mysterious vagrant, who is actually Sherlock Holmes, appears and gives Conan some useful advice that eventually helps Conan and Hideki survive the game (The Train Crash into the King's Cross Railway Station). After winning the game, Conan reveals that Moroboshi is actually the deceased Hiroki Sawada (in the form of the Ark) in disguise. They chat a little and before saying goodbye to Conan, Hiroki reveals to him that he knows the detective's identity as Shinichi Kudo. After that, the Noah's Ark destroys itself. All the children, including Ran and the Detective Boys, are released from the cocoons. Yusaku then congratulates Conan for beating the game.

Trivia

• This is the last Detective Conan movie to be made using traditional animation.
• Currently, this is the final movie to be dubbed in english by Funimation Entertainment. No new movies have been announced thus far, though another dubbing company has since done an English dub of Zero the Enforcer.
• This movie is notable for having a screenplay written by a famous Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist Hisashi Nozawa. Kazunari Kochi had written all previous movies and most of the later movies up until Dimensional Sniper.
• Hiroki Sawada is possibly modeled after Doctor Zell, a former Nazi officer and mad experimental scientist in episode 50-51 of the anime Lupin III: Part II, a source of inspiration for Detective Conan. Indeed, before death, Zell uploaded his mind into a computer and created an artificial intelligence system.
• Thomas Schindler's limousine is a silver Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine.
• Yusaku Kudo and Professor Agasa's limousine is dark blue Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine.
• The date in London is declared to be September 30, 1888 which is a Sunday, yet Moriarty says that the following day is to be Sunday.
• Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are said to be away on business at Dartmoor in reference to The Hound of the Baskervilles case, however this case did not take place until a year later in 1889.
• Noah's Ark may be a reference to HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, or Ultron from Marvel Comics, who is shown as backing himself up and traveling through the internet to create chaos.
• This is the first movie to use a virtual reality game as the main setting.
• Conan plays Pac-Man in the last scene.
• The gun picked up by Genta at Sherlock Holmes' house is a Tranter 54-bore self-cocking revolver.
• This is the first movie where Conan's gadgets are primarily absent, as in the game, they are converted to a normal accessories, rendering them useless. The next movie where Conan is unable to utilize them is The Fist of Blue Sapphire, though he gains them back later on.
• Gin and Vodka make appearances in the introduction sequence of the movie as always, but are also featured in a cameo where Yukiko and Yusaku Kudo are disguised as the pair cornering Conan in an alley way.
• Yukiko, aside from appearing in the introduction sequence and her in game portrayal of Irene Adler, is absent in the film itself, with Agasa explaining to Conan that she had a high school reunion, and was unable to attend, meaning that she technically hasn't appeared in the movie herselves.
• This is the only movie where either of Shinichi's parents are directly involved with the storyline. Yusaku make a cameos appearance in The Fourteenth Target and the two appear in the introduction sequences for Countdown to Heaven and Crossroad in the Ancient Capital, but not in the movie themselves, though Yusaku is mentioned later on in Countdown to Heaven
• The version of the main theme used in the film is a slightly modified version of the one from Countdown to Heaven and would again later be reused and modified again for Strategy Above the Depths.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Basque	Baker Street-eko mamua
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El fantasma de Baker Street	The Phantom of Baker Street
French (Subbed)	Le Fantôme de Baker Street	The Phantom of Baker Street
Galician	A pantasma de Baker Street	The Phantom of Baker Street
German	Das Phantom der Baker Street	The Phantom of Baker Street
Italian	Il fantasma di Baker Street	The Phantom of Baker Street
Simplified Chinese	贝克街的亡灵	The Phantom of Baker Street
Spanish (Castilian sub)	El fantasma de Baker Street	The phantom of Baker Street
Thai	ปริศนาบนถนนสายมรณะ	Mystery on the Deadly Street
Traditional Chinese	貝克街的亡靈	The Phantom of Baker Street
Vietnamese	Bóng ma đường Baker	The Phantom of Baker Street

See also

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