Black Iron Submarine

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Movie 26
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Information
Title:	Black Iron Submarine
Japanese Title:	名探偵コナン 黒鉄の魚影(サブマリン) (Meitantei Conan: Kurogane no Sabumarin)
Original airdate:	April 14, 2023
Broadcast rating when aired on television:	10.4% (aired on April 19, 2024)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Shiho Miyano Ran Mouri Shinichi Kudo Kogoro Mouri Hiroshi Agasa Detective Boys Sonoko Suzuki Subaru Okiya Shuichi Akai Jodie Starling Andre Camel James Black Juzo Megure Miwako Sato Ninzaburo Shiratori Hyoue Kuroda Yuya Kazami Gin Vodka Vermouth Chianti Korn Rei Furuya Hidemi Hondou Rum Renya Karasuma Curaçao Irish Pisco Tequila Ethan Hondou Akemi Miyano Kamen Yaiba
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Staff
Director:	Yuzuru Tachikawa
Screenplay:	Takeharu Sakurai
Storyboard:	Yuzuru Tachikawa Iwao Teraoka Jiro Kanai
Technical Director:	Yuzuru Tachikawa Katsuya Shigehara Kenji Takahashi Kazuki Yokoyama Takahiro Hasui Ryota Kawahara (asst.)
Animation director:	Masatomo Sudo (chief) Yoshiharu Shimizu Nobuyuki Iwai Nariyuki Takahashi Hiroyuki Notake Iwao Teraoka Jiro Kanai Kyoko Yoshimi (asst.) Hirona Okada (asst.) Ayu Imoto (asst.) Keiko Sasaki (asst.) Michitaka Yamamoto (asst.) Kentaro Kawajiri (asst.) Ken Araya (asst.) Yuki Tsugihashi (asst.) Yusuke Shingu (asst.) Takashi Yokoyama (asst.) Rei Masunaga (asst.) Tomoko Fukunaga (asst.) Makiko Hayase (asst.) FALCO Suzuki (asst.) Mina Otaka (asst.) Mari Saito (asst.) Kayo Onizawa (asst.) Yoshitsugu Hatano (asst.) Kana Aoki (asst.) Chihiro Nishikawa (asst.) Nayuta Inoue (asst.) Takashi Hashimoto (effect)
Character Design:	Masatomo Sudo Design Works: Hiroshi Ogawa
Production Cooperation:	Studio Colorido
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri, Ethan Hondou Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Ryotaro Okiayu as Subaru Okiya Shuichi Ikeda as Shuichi Akai Miyuki Ichijou as Jodie Starling Kenji Nomura as Andre Camel Takaya Hashi as James Black Chafurin as Juzo Megure Atsuko Yuya as Miwako Sato Kazuhiko Inoue as Ninzaburo Shiratori Yukimasa Kishino as Hyoue Kuroda Nobuo Tobita as Yuya Kazami Sakiko Tamagawa as Akemi Miyano Yukitoshi Hori as Gin Fumihiko Tachiki as Vodka Mami Koyama as Vermouth Kikuko Inoue as Chianti Hiroyuki Kinoshita as Korn Tohru Furuya as Rei Furuya Kotono Mitsuishi as Hidemi Hondou Shigeru Chiba as Rum  ??? as Pinga Ikki Sawamura as Yosuke Makino Atsumi Tanezaki as Naomi Argento Junichi Suwabe as Leonhardt  Hiroshi Kamiya as Ed Ayumu Murase as Grace Hiroshi Tsuchida as Hans Nami Miyahara as Nina Balmer Ikuya Sawaki as Kanji Ushio Toshiko Sawada as Grandma Katsumi Toriumi as Operator Yasuhiro as Staff  Nobuaki Kanemitsu as Newscaster Katsunori Okai as Police officer Volcano Ota as Clerk Shino Shimoji as Clerk Saki Kobari as Customer Kokona Kato as Kids
Music
Theme song:	Utsukushī Hire
Soundtrack:	Detective Conan "Black Iron Submarine" Original Soundtrack
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Black Iron Submarine is the 26th movie in the Detective Conan franchise and the fourth about the Black Organization. It was released in Japan on April 14, 2023. The pre-story is The Cameras Targeting Haibara.

Characters Introduced

Pinga
	25 years old Black Organization member Rum's close confidant Engineer

Gadgets introduced

Underwater Scooter
	Automated underwater scooter that can reach 30 meters deep

Undersea Headset
	An underwater headset with anti-decompression sickness gas cylinder and wireless comunicator

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Shiho Miyano (picture) Ran Mouri Shinichi Kudo (background/voice) Kogoro Mouri Hiroshi Agasa Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Sonoko Suzuki Subaru Okiya Shuichi Akai Jodie Starling Andre Camel James Black Juzo Megure Miwako Sato Ninzaburo Shiratori Hyoue Kuroda Yuya Kazami Gin Vodka Vermouth Chianti Korn Rei Furuya Hidemi Hondou Rum Renya Karasuma (background) Curaçao (background) Irish (background) Pisco (background) Tequila (background) Ethan Hondou (flashback) Akemi Miyano (flashback) Rum's subordinate Kamen Yaiba (snack packaging)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Turbo Engine Skateboard Telescopic Lenses Criminal Tracking Glasses Wristwatch Flashlight Stun-Gun Wristwatch Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes Detective Boys Badge Voice-Changing Bowtie Voice-Changing Choker Elasticity Suspenders

Case

Situation

In Frankfurt, an Europol agent is being chased by Kir and Gin. Although Kir tries to help her escape, Gin eventually murders the agent. Some time later, Conan, Ran, the Detective Boys, Agasa, and Kogoro are invited to the resort at Hachijo-jima, owned by Sonoko's family. Conan later receives information from Subaru about the Europol agent who was murdered and a new Black Organization agent known as Pinga is on the move.

Murder
	Location: Frankfurt, Germany Victim: Nina Balmer Cause of death: Gunshot wound Culprit: Gin Kir had attempted to spare Nina Balmer, but Gin shot her by firing a bullet through Kir’s shoulder which struck Nina in the head.

Having discovered Shiratori and Kuroda, Conan secretly went after them to an Interpol underwater facility known as the Pacific Buoy. The facility hosts a new state-of-the-art system that allows them to connect to all the surveillance cameras in Japan, Europe, and eventually all over the world. Headed by Yosuke Makino, four other engineers (Ed from India, Grace from France, Leonhardt from Germany, and Naomi Argento from United States) also work in the facility. Another function of the system is the "All-Age Recognition" system, which uses facial recognition and AI reconstruction of a person’s facial structure to identify individuals whose age may have differed from the source material.

At the same time Bourbon and Vermouth have secretly infiltrated the Pacific Buoy and arranged for the kidnapping of Naomi Argento, holding her captive in a submarine. They along with Vodka and Kir discover from Naomi's flash drive that was hidden in her necklace that the All-Age Recognition system had apparently identified Haibara as Shiho Miyano.

Kidnapping
	Location: Pacific Buoy, Hachijo-jima, Japan Victim: Naomi Argento Culprits: Vermouth and Bourbon Vermouth and Bourbon secretly kidnapped Naomi from the pacific buoy by knocking her unconscious.

That same night, Chianti, Vodka, and Pinga kidnap Haibara from Sonoko's resort. Conan and Agasa try to chase after them, but unfortunately witness Vodka and Pinga driving their vehicle with Haibara into the sea to board their submarine underwater. The incident was reported to Kuroda, and Conan asked to use the Buoy's surveillance system to check the security cameras on the route of the car chase and the presence of the submarine, but they discovered that no submarine or vehicles were caught on the camera, seemingly indicating that the system had been tampered with.

Kidnapping
	Location: Hachijo-jima, Japan Victim: Ai Haibara Culprits: Vodka and Pinga After discovering that Haibara and Sherry were one in the same, Vodka and Pinga drugged Haibara and kidnapped her.

However, Leonhardt had figured out who the person responsible for tampering with the surveillance footage was and tried to confront the culprit, but was drugged and was seen on the cctv camera committing suicide via poisoning in the Buoy's Cafe. The confession letter apparently written by Leonhardt also mentioned that he was responsible for the Backdoor in the Buoy's system.

Suicide?
	Location: Pacific Buoy, Hachijo-jima, Japan Victim: Leonhardt Cause of death: Poisoning Suspects: Grace, Ed, and Yosuke Makino Conan and the others witnessed Leonhardt apparently committing suicide by taking a poison capsule.

Meanwhile, Vodka tried to force Naomi to tell them how to use the All-Age Recognition program, and when she refused to do so, he arranged for her father, a member of the European Parliament that proposed the use of the surveillance system, to be killed.

Murder
	Location: Frankfurt, Germany Victim: Mario Argento Cause of death: Shooting Culprit: Korn Naomi was forced to watch as Korn murdered her father.

Later on, Vermouth informed Gin that after running the All-Age Recognition system once again, she discovered that the system is able to pick up the image of other people with similar faces, but not necessarily the same person, indicating that the system is flawed. Frustrated by this development and following orders from Rum, Gin decided to use the submarine to destroy the Buoy. However, when he tried to confront Haibara and Naomi, he discovered that the two had escaped from the submarine using the clues provided by Kir.

People

Pinga
	25 years old Black Organization member Rum's close confidant Engineer

Yosuke Makino
	"Pacific Buoy" chief engineer and facility manager Interpol director

Nina Balmer
	Victim (gunshot) Europol agent Jodie's friend

Naomi Argento
	Victim (kidnapped) 19 years old "Pacific Buoy" engineer Half-Japanese raised in America

Ed
	"Pacific Buoy" Indian engineer

Grace
	"Pacific Buoy" French engineer

Leonhardt
	Victim (poison) "Pacific Buoy" German engineer

Kanji Ushio
	Hachijo-jima sightseeing cruise captain

Hans
	Europol agent Frankfurt network center manager

Mario Argento
	Victim (gunshot) Naomi's father EU parliament Italian member

Mrs. Argento
	Naomi's mother

Anthony Jones
	Europe criminal suspect

Jack Wilson
	Europe criminal suspect Truck driver

Maria Ropelato
	EU parliament Italian member

Scott Enfield
	EU parliament member

Resolution

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Conan went back to the Buoy and revealed through Kogoro that the person who murdered Leonhardt is Grace. Grace murdered Leonhardt as he had examined the access log and discovered that Grace was the only person who accessed the camera footage. Grace is then revealed to be Pinga, who used the Deepfake method to fake Leonhardt’s suicide footage and tried to escape from the Buoy. With the submarine set to attack the Buoy, Conan tries to light the position of the submarine from underwater and arranged for Akai to launch a rocket that severely damaged the submarine, forcing the Black Organization to flee from the submarine. Pinga dies from the blast when the submarine exploded as Gin had intentionally left him there to die. Conan later loses consciousness underwater, only to be rescued by Haibara who went after him and took him to the surface.

Murder
	Location: Underwater Victim: Pinga Cause of death: Explosion Culprit: Gin Pinga died from the submarine after it was set to self-destruct and the fact that Gin had purposely left him to die.

During the mid-credits scene, the Detective Boys reunite with Conan and Haibara. Jodie is seen visiting Nina's grave with Hans. It is revealed on the news that Naomi's father had survived the attempted murder by the black organization.

In the post credit scene, the Pacific Buoy project is reported to have been moved to another country. Naomi realizes that Haibara is in fact Shiho Miyano, a friend who shielded her from being bullied when they studied in the United States. Furuya told Conan that the flaw in the system is revealed to have been staged by Vermouth, who disguised herself as Sherry and appeared in security camera footages around Shibuya, Okinawa, and Manila, to hide the fact that Haibara is Shiho Miyano. An elderly woman whom Haibara earlier in the movie had offered her ticket to purchase a Fusae Campbell-branded ginkgo leaf pin is revealed to be Vermouth, who thinks to herself that Silver Bullet should figure out the reason she helped fabricate the flaw in the system himself.

Music

The soundtrack is directed by Yugo Kanno, who took the role from Katsuo Ono in the previous movie.

The ending theme is titled Utsukushī Hire, song by Spitz.

Trivia

• Many scenes are reprised from The Fourteenth Target and Reunion with the Black Organization.
• The movie made 850 million yen on its opening day and 3.1 billion yen in its first three days, breaking the previous record by The Scarlet Bullet. The movie earned a total of 13.88 billion yen, making it the first Detective Conan movie to earn more than 10 billion yen and the second highest grossing film of the franchise following The Million-dollar Pentagram.

• The movie also grossed 121.7 million dollars worldwide, the second highest grossing film of the franchise following The Fist of Blue Sapphire

• The special guest voice actor for this movie is Ikki Sawamura, who voiced Yosuke Makino.
• Due to the screening of this movie, visitors to Hachijo-jima have increased rapidly which had previously decreased due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• This movie shared a similar theme (AI Threats and Submarine) with Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, which released later in the same year.
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  Both movies introduce a character named Grace who apparently tries to "steal access" to the AI.
• The bottle of pinga in the movie "Cachaça 26" is named after Cachaça 51, a Brazilian brand of pinga, as well as the number of the movie (26).
• The sake bottles Kogoro drinks are from the Hachijo-jima Sake Brewery, Shimanagashi (島流し, Shimawatashi (島渡し) in the movie), Edochu (江戸酎, Meijichu (明治酎) in the movie), from Sakashita Brewery, Kichachijo (黄八丈, Hachiojima (八丈島) in the movie), and from Hachijo Kohatsu (八丈興発), Nasakeshima (情け嶋).
• The alcohol bottles in the Black Organization's submarine are shaped after real brand bottles : Special Dry Gin is Gilbey's Special Dry Gin, the rum bottle is Myers's Rum, the vermouth bottle is Martini & Rossi, and the vodka bottle is Beluga Vodka.
• Vodka and Pinga's off-roader is a Jeep Wrangler JK. The license plate is 新宿 334 た・4 29 (Shinjuku 334, Ta 4-29).
• The license plate number of Rum's car is slightly different from The Black Organization's Scheme. In the movie, it is 新宿 330, ち • 2 04 (Shinjuku 330, Chi • 2 04).

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	Detectiu Conan: Black iron submarine	Detective Conan: Black iron submarine
Chinese (Traditional)	黑鐵的魚影	Black Iron Submarine
French	Le Sous-marin noir	The Black Submarine
German	Das schwarze U-Boot	The Black Submarine
Greek	Detective Conan: Το Μαύρο Υποβρύχιο	Detective Conan: The Black Submarine
India	Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine	Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine
Korean	흑철의 어영	Black Iron Submarine
Spanish	Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine	El Submarino de Hierro Negro (Black Iron Submarine)
Thai	มฤตยูใต้น้ำทมิฬ	The Black Deadly Forces Undersea
Vietnamese	Tàu ngầm sắt màu đen	Black Iron Submarine

See also

• Movies
• The Story of Ai Haibara ~Black Iron Mystery Train~‎‎
• The Cameras Targeting Haibara