Quarter of Silence is the 15th movie in the Detective Conan franchise. It was released in Japan on April 16, 2011.
Characters introduced
Gadgets introduced
Cast
Gadgets
Case
Situation
The Governor of Tokyo, Yuichiro Asakura, receives a threatening letter the day before the opening of Touto Line, a new train line for the Tokyo Metropolitan Subway. During the opening ceremony of the line, Conan Edogawa and the Detective Boys are driven by Professor Agasa and pass under the Touto Line. Conan, having heard about the threatening letter, notices explosives connected to the rails. Using his original voice to inform the police as Shinichi Kudo, he is able to stop the train and divert traffic away from the explosives, preventing any deaths.
Bombing
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Conan researches Asakura's political history for a clue on the culprit and learns that the governor was in charge of the construction of a dam in Kitanosawa, a town in the Niigata Prefecture. Due to the dam's construction, the citizens of Kitanosawa were forced into a new town and their old homes were submerged underwater. Since Asakura's trip to celebrate the anniversary of the dam is canceled by the bombing, Conan speculates information on the bomber could be found in Kitanosawa and plans a trip there.
Conan, the Detective Boys, Ran Mouri, Kogoro Mouri, and Sonoko Suzuki travel to Kitanosawa and enjoy the day playing. They are introduced to a group of locals; their names are Keisuke Yamao, Mizuki Tono, Fuyumi Tachihara, Takehiki Muto, and Shogo Hikawa. The group reveals they were all childhood friends and were part of the group which relocated to the new village. They also reveal its their first gathering in eight years since Yamao was in prison for killing Tono's younger sister, Natsuki Tono, in a hit and run.
Hit and Run (Past)
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Location:
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Way to Kitanosawa Village
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Victim:
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Natsuki Tono
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Age:
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18 years old
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Cause of death:
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Hit by a car
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Suspects:
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Keisuke Yamao
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On the way to Kitanosawa Village, Yamao accidentally hits Natsuki Tono, Mizuki's younger sister, resulting in her death.
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The next day, Tachihara's son, Touma Tachihara, awakens from his eight year coma with no memory of his accident. Later that day, Hikawa is found dead in a field.
Accident? Attempted Murder? (Past)
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Location:
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Road going to cottage
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Victim:
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Touma Tachihara
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Age:
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7 years old
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Time:
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8 years ago (Snowy night)
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Suspects:
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Keisuke Yamao
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While Touma was out, he witnessed the crime. He was chased by someone and fell from a high place. His beloved dog is unable to wake him due to Touma being comatose. He is unable to remember the details about the previous case. During a walk with Yamao's classmates and the Detective Boys, they find Hikawa's corpse.
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Murder
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Location:
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Snowy field in Kitanosawa
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Victim:
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Shogo Hikawa
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Age:
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34 years old
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Cause of death:
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Electrocution
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Suspects:
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Keisuke Yamao, Mizuki Tono, Fuyumi Tachihara, and Takehiko Muto
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It is assumed to be suicide since only Hikawa's footprints were found in the snow. Conan reveals Hikawa was killed by an electroshock weapon. The culprit then waited for it to snow and walked away backwards to suggest Hikawa was alone. During a diamond dust caused by the sunrise, Touma experiences a flashback to the day of the accident.
Conan investigates Hikawa's belongings and finds a newspaper clipping detailing a jewelry store robbery dated the day before the hit and run.
Robbery - Murder (Past)
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Location:
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Misuzu Jewelry
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Victim:
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Eiko Misuzu
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Age:
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51 years old
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Cause of death:
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Stab wound
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Suspects:
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Keisuke Yamao
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On the 15th at around 11:00 pm. An unknown perpetrator broke into Misuzu Jewelry located in Yaoi City, Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo. The culprit stabbed 51-year-old company president Eiko Misuzu to death with a sharp blade. The robber allegedly made off with one billion yen worth of jewelry.
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A cell site is destroyed by bombs leading Conan to hypothesize the culprit's identity. Meanwhile, the Detective Boys and Touma are hunted down by a sniper.
Bombing
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Location:
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Village Powerline
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Suspects:
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Unknown culprit
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Attempted Murder
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Conan and Haibara ride a snowboard to the kids' location, attracting the attention of the sniper.
Attempted Murder
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In order to avoid being seen by the sniper, the Detective Boys and Touma hide in a cave. They head deeper into the cave, which led to a shortcut to the dam. Here Conan explained the culprit's identity.
People
Resolution
Conan intervenes and leads them to safety. Taking a route towards the dam, Conan explains
Keisuke Yamao is the culprit. Yamao robbed the jewelry store in a distant town and drove back to Kitanosawa. On the way, he ran over Natsuki, a scene which Touma witnessed. Touma is then kidnapped by Yamao and sees the diamonds, explaining why the diamond dust startled his memories. Touma escaped but fell down a cliff leading to his coma. Yamao then buries the jewels in a property in Kitanosawa and turns himself over to the authorities for Natsuki's death. Unexpectedly, the dam project forced the town of Kitanosawa underwater. As a result, Yamao decides to bomb the dam to search old-Kitanosawa for the diamonds. In order to have enough time to perform the search, he had to cancel the Governor's trip and destroy the cell phone towers to prevent the outside world from learning of the dam's destruction.
Bombing
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Location:
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Kitanosawa Dam
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Culprit:
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Keisuke Yamao
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Upon arriving at the dam, Conan is pursued by Yamao who tortures him and intendes to silence him. Yamao is then shot and incapacitated by Mizuki.
Attempted Murder
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Location:
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Kitanosawa Dam
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Victim:
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Conan Edogawa
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Attack types:
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Shooting
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Culprit:
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Keisuke Yamao
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Attempted Murder
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Location:
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Kitanosawa Dam
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Victim:
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Keisuke Yamao
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Age:
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34 years old
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Injury:
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Gunshot wound
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Culprit:
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Mizuki Tono
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She tried to save the kids.
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Touma regains his memories of the accident upon seeing Mizuki and reveals he saw Mizuki push Natsuki off into the road during an argument. Mizuki professes she was the sniper attempting to shoot at Touma, in order to prevent him from remembering, and that the death of her sister was an accident. Yamao, having set off the bombs in the dam, forces them to flee. Conan diverges from the group intending to start an avalanche by creating grooves in a steep mountain with his motorized snowboard to divert the flow away from Kitanosawa. He is successful but his motor short-circuits causing him to be caught in the avalanche.
Accident
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Location:
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Kitanosawa Village
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Victim:
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Conan Edogawa
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Conan was buried under the avalanche after saving the village from flooding. He only has 15 minutes for the others to find him.
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He is eventually rescued when Ran calls Shinichi's cellphone causing him to regain consciousness. He alerts the others of his position by deploying a soccer ball from his belt.
In the aftermath the jewels are recovered, Yamao is arrested and Mizuki turns herself in for what she did to her sister.
In other languages
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Translation
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Catalan (Catalan dub) |
Un quart de silenci |
A quarter of silence
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Chinese |
沉默的十五分钟 |
Fifteen Minutes of Silence
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French (Subbed) |
Les Quinze Minutes de silence |
The Fifteen Minutes of Silence
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German |
Die 15 Minuten der Stille |
The 15 Minutes of Silence
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Korean |
침묵의 15분 |
15 Minutes of Silence
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Vietnamese |
15 phút tĩnh lặng |
15 Minutes of Silence
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Gallery
For the full gallery see:
Quarter of Silence/Gallery
Trivia
- In Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery (Part 2), Sumiko Kobayashi has given to Inspector Shiratori the coffee mug with love symbols that Haibara and the Detective Boys have bought for her in the gift shop "Snow White" of Kitanosawa Lodge house.
- The Kitanosawa Dam is modeled after the Kurobe Dam, the highest dam in Japan that appears in the ending credits with the Kurobe Gorge Railway. It was projected by Carlo Semenza and Alberico Biadene, who were involved in a dam disaster very similar to this attempt.
- The women in the live action ending theme are Keiko Furukawa and Mai Watanabe.
- Mizuki reappears in Private Eye in the Distant Sea, then she was discharged for accidentally having pushed her sister to death.
- Yamao's hit and run car is a blue 1993 Toyota MR2 GT TURBO [SW20]. The license plate number is 新宿 500, い 10-01 (Shinjuku 500, I 10-01).
- Muto's car to rescue Detective Kids is a silver Toyota Land Cruiser Prado [J120].
- Fuyumi Tachihara's off-road vehicle is a 1991 Black Suzuki Jimny [JA11V].
- Tadao Azegami drives a supermini Suzuki Wagon R police car.
- Dam's employees' off-road SUV is a 2007 Jeep Patriot [MK74]. The license plate number is 新潟 301, お 95-20 (Niigata 301, O 95-20), but a mistake occurs as in a scene, the license plate briefly changes to 新潟 500, そ 29-21 (Niigata 500, So 29-21).
- A new train line for the Tokyo Metropolitan Subway in live action is Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line and the train is a Tokyo Metro 10000 series.
- Mizuki Toono and Keisuke Yamao sniper rifle is a Winchester Model 70.
See also