Cast
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
Game characters
Resolution
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.
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
|
Gallery
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.
See also