The Scarlet Bullet[1] is the 24th movie in the Detective Conan franchise. It was originally scheduled to be released in Japan on April 17, 2020, which made it the first movie to premiere in the Reiwa period, but was postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It was released on April 16, 2021[2][3]. The pre-story is The Beika City Shopping Center Garbage Bin Mystery.
On February 10, 2021, a global release was announced. A video featuring multi-language movie opening in Japanese, English, Korean, German, and Chinese was also released.[4]
On March 24, 2021, the movie was announced to be screened in IMAX, MX4D, 4DX, and DOLBY CINEMA.
Cast
Gadgets
Case
Situation
Japan is about to celebrate the world's largest sports festival, "WSG-World Sports Games", in Tokyo. In line with the opening ceremony, it is announced that the world's first "Vacuum Superconducting Linear" train, boasting a maximum speed of 1,000 km/h which combined all of Japan's technologies, will be opened to the public between Shin-Nagoya Station and Shibahama Station and established in Tokyo. As the world's attention is garnered, an incident occurs at a party venue where famous tournament sponsors are gathered, leading to an abnormal situation where top dogs of companies are kidnapped one after another. Behind the scenes are Shuichi Akai who monitors the incident, and the FBI who waits for orders from Akai.
Conan's reasoning reveals the relevance of the apocalyptic WSG kidnapping incident that occurred in Boston, USA, fifteen years ago, and that the incident was also under the jurisdiction of the FBI. Is this a coincidence? What is going to happen in Japan, where many types of people from all over the world are gathered?
Murder (Past)
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Location:
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Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Victim:
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Morgan Tracy
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Age:
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Unknown
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Time:
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15 years ago
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Cause of death:
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Gunshot
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Suspects:
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Makoto Ishihara
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A man is seen escaping from a mysterious shooter while his hands are bound. He manages to escape until he comes to a train station and gets shot down by the culprit.
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Kidnapping (Past)
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Location:
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United States
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Victim:
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Man
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Age:
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Unknown
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Time:
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15 years ago
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Suspects:
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Makoto Ishihara
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A CEO who sponsored the WSG was kidnapped, but later released unharmed.
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Kidnapping
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Location:
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WSG pre-opening party, Tokyo, Japan
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Victim:
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Shiro Suzuki
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Age:
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51 years old
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Time:
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Daytime
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Suspects:
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Unknown
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Shiro is kidnapped during the World Sport Games pre-opening party, he is later found by the Detective Boys in the kitchen, unharmed.
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Vaporized Helium Attack
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Location:
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Hospital attached to Nagoya International Airport, Nagoya
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Victim:
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Conan Edogawa, Ran Mouri, Kogoro Mouri, Ai Haibara, John Boyd, Alan MacKenzie, and everyone else inside the hospital.
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Time:
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Daytime
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Suspects:
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Maiko Shirahato, Osamu Inoue, and Eri Ishioka
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The hospital's MRI machines undergo quenching, in which the liquid helium inside of them vaporizes and is released into the hospital, causing everyone inside to pass out from lack of oxygen.
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People
Resolution
On Conan's cue, Jodie makes a phone call to all the passengers listed on the Hyper Linear's passenger list. All the passengers' phones ring, except for one,
Maiko Shirahato, who reveals herself to Conan and Masumi on the Hyper Linear. Shirahato's phone had been damaged when she went to sabotage the MRI room back at the airport. Shirahato reveals herself as the daughter of Makoto Ishihara (their names are anagrams), and wants to avenge her father who she said was falsely accused by the FBI by killing Alan.
Attempted Murder
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Location:
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Hyper Linear Passenger Cabin
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Victim:
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Alan McKenzie
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Time:
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Daytime
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Culprit:
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Maiko Shirahato
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Shirahato intends to kill Alan McKenzie to avenge her father.
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However, Shirahato is then shot by a silver made bullet from Shuichi Akai with calculated plans from Conan and help from Sera and Alan. As she is unconscious. It is revealed that Shirahato has an accomplice in her crimes, who is unmasked to be
Osamu Inoue. His motive to plan the crimes with Shirahato is to avenge the first victim from the incident occurred fifteen years ago in Atlanta, who is Inoue's father.
Music
Eien no Fuzai Shoumei, by Tokyo Jihen.
In other languages
Language |
Title |
Translation
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Arabic |
الرصاصة القرمزية |
The Scarlet Bullet
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Catalan (Catalan dub) |
La bala escarlata |
The Scarlet Bullet
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Simplified Chinese |
绯色的子弹 |
The Scarlet Bullet
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Traditional Chinese |
緋色的彈丸 |
The Scarlet Bullet
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French (Dubbed) |
The Scarlet Bullet |
The Scarlet Bullet
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German |
Die scharlachrote Kugel |
The Scarlet Bullet
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Korean |
비색의 탄환 |
The Scarlet Bullet
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Spanish (Castilian sub) |
La bala escarlata |
The Scarlet Bullet
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Thai |
กระสุนสีเพลิง |
The Scarlet Bullet
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Vietnamese |
Viên đạn đỏ |
The Scarlet Bullet
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Gallery
For the full gallery see:
The Scarlet Bullet/Gallery
Trivia
- This is the third movie to feature FBI agents, the second movie to feature Masumi Sera, and the first movie to feature Mary Sera and Shukichi Haneda.
- The U.S. Marshals are also featured in this movie.
- The gun used by the culprit for the first murder is a Desert Eagle.
- The bullet trains in this movie are based on L0 Series Maglev (Magnetic Levitation).
- The World Sport Games are based on the 2020 Summer Olympics.
- The train line is the Chūō Shinkansen (Tokyo Shinagawa - Nagoya).
- The special guest voice actor for this movie is actress Minami Hamabe playing Hyper linear staff Eri Ishioka.
- Due to poor performance of previous movies 22 and 23 outside the Catalan region, this movie was not dubbed in Spanish (Castilian) at release, being played on Spanish theaters only subbed on the Japanese version, alongside with the Catalan dub.
- Despite the french dub of the series having stopped after episode 214 and movie 5, this movie will be the first movie of the franchise to get a french dub in 12 years, with the original anime voice actors from all characters that appeared prior to episode 214, with the notable exception of Takagi, whose voice actor moved to France, and Kogoro and Megure, whose voice actor died in 2015. In addition, this will be the first movie to have the same french voice actors as in the series, as the five first movies had different voice actors due to licensing issues.
See also
References