The Time-Bombed Skyscraper

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Movie 1
Official trailer
Information
Title:	The Time-Bombed Skyscraper
English Title:	The Time-Bombed Skyscraper
Japanese Title:	名探偵コナン　時計じかけの摩天楼 (Meitantei Konan Tokei-jikake no matenrō)
Original airdate:	April 19, 1997
English airdate:	October 3, 2006
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Ninzaburo Shiratori Professor Agasa Sonoko Suzuki Detective Boys Shinichi Kudo
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Shinichi Kudo Ran Mouri
Staff
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Chafurin as Inspector Megure Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Kaneto Shiozawa as Ninzaburo Shiratori Taro Ishida as Teiji Moriya
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Characters introduced

Ninzaburo Shiratori
	Police officer from Tokyo Police District Works with Inspector Megure

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Professor Agasa Sonoko Suzuki Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Shinichi Kudo (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes Stun-Gun Wristwatch Detective Boys Badge Turbo Engine Skateboard

Case

Situation

The opening of the movie start with a murder at Kurokawa Household.

Murder
	Location: Kurokawa Household Victim: Daizo Kurokawa Cause of death: Blunt-force trauma Suspects: Mina Kurokawa, Daisuke Kurokawa, and Manami Nagasawa

Kogoro deduced from the victim's dying message JUN that it points to Mina Kurokawa, as June is also the dry month(Minatsuki) and that she was born in June with earn a scold from Mina herself. Conan then put Kogoro to sleep and start the deduction.

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The culprit is Manami Nagasawa. The message isn't JUN but a hiragana of "Ma-Na-Mi" which point to Manami herself. The evidence is that the weird blood on the floor match the one on her sock. Manami confessed that Daizo was responsible for her husband falled surgery and his death due to Daizo was drunk before performing the surgery. She couldn't find any witness due to everyone was scared of Daizo. So Manami come to work as housekeeper to murdur him as today in her husband's death anniversary.

While sorting mail at Professor Agasa's house, Conan Edogawa finds a strange letter (an invitation to a tea party) which is addressed to Shinichi Kudo. The letter was sent from a man named Teiji Moriya who is a famous architect. Conan calls Ran Mouri using his Voice-Changing Bowtie to mimic Shinichi's voice and tells her he can't go to this tea party and if she would go in his place. He tells her to bring her dad, Kogoro Mouri and "that kid" (referring to Conan).

Ran says she will do it only if he goes to a movie with her on Saturday; Conan tries to make her change the date but she is determined that it has to be on May 3rd. She then asks him whats his favorite color: Red or Blue to which he responds Red. Conan leaves the pay phone and while walking home trying to figure why she wants it to be on May 3rd. While on the way home he meets Inspector Megure who introduces him to Ninzaburo Shiratori.

While eating dinner with Ran and Kogoro, Ran tells Conan she's taking Shinichi to the movies on May 3rd and when it hits midnight she will give her gift to him (which is a red polo shirt). Conan then realizes that May the 4th is his birthday.

Conan tricks Kogoro into going to the tea party as Kogoro doesn't want to go in the first place. They meet Teiji Moriya and tell him that Shinichi couldn't make it but that Kogoro is another famous detective. Moriya gives everyone a quiz and asks them to solve it. Conan is the first to solve it so he gets to go to see his gallery with Ran. While observing the pictures Ran tells Moriya that shes going to the movies with Shinichi and is going to be watching it in one of the buildings he designed.

The next day Ran goes out to get some food and Conan goes to Agasa's house. Trying to think of what to do for his movie "date" with Ran. A news station on T.V. reported that someone stole lots of octogen which is the main component for plastic explosives. Right after, Professor Agasa receives a phone call asking to talk to Shinichi, the man using a voice changing device tells Shinichi that he is the one who stole the Octogen and tells him to give his mobile phone number to him. Conan tells him his number and the man tells him to go to Greenbelt park or else the kids will die.

Conan uses his skateboard and rushes to Greenbelt park where he finds: Genta Kojima, Ayumi Yoshida, and Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya playing with a remote controlled plane. Mitsuhiko tells Conan a man with a mustache and a beard gave it to them. Conan notices that there is a bomb on the plane so he takes the controller away from Mitsuhiko but he refuses to give it to him since its Genta's turn. Conan tells them there is a bomb on it and they drop it and the antenna breaks. The plane is now flying uncontrolled so Conan uses his Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes and kicks the Controller into the Plane blowing it up. Conan then realizes this isn't a prank and then gets another call telling him about another bomb.

When Conan was searching for the second bomb, he only manages to bring to a deserted place before it blows up which sends Conan flying into a tree. He wakes up in the hospital. They get another notice that there are more bombs planted on a train track. Using Conan's help they defuse them all. Later that day Conan, Megure, Shiratori and Kogoro go to Moriya's house.

People

Daizo Kurokawa
	Victim 62 years old Director of Kurokawa Clinic

Mina Kurokawa
	32 years old Daizo's second wife

Daisuke Kurokawa
	36 years old Daizo's eldest son Doctor of internal medicine

Manami Nakazawa
	27 years old Housemaid

Teiji Moriya
	47 years old Architect

Kohei Okamoto
	21 years old Son of the mayor

Mayor Okamoto
	52 years old Mayor of Nishitama City

Sakaguchi
	52 years old Chief of operations from Touto Railway Control Center

Kusunoki
	45 years old Command center chief from Touto Railway Control Center

Resolution

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Conan figures out that the famous architect Teiji Moriya has been the bomber all along. He was driven to this due to his obsession with symmetry. His plan was to blow up his structures and replace them with symmetrical structures (all of the bomb targets were either at or near buildings he designed).

Another bomb is revealed to be in the mall where Ran is. It explodes and both and many others get trapped in the building, but Conan (who is at the other side of the building) contacts Ran (using his tie to mimic his Shinichi voice) and tells her she must find and disarm the bomb. Ran finds the box with the bomb and cuts through various wires using plans left by Leo and learns that one wire is booby-trapped. Ran is down to 2 wires, a red one and a blue one.

Conan gets into the building and realizes the red wire is booby-trapped. He loses hope since this means there's almost no way to keep the bomb from exploding and tells Ran to do as she likes, since they are going to die together at this rate. Conan is then found and taken out of the building... but much to Conan's surprise, Ran cuts the blue wire and saves everyone. Conan asks Ran why she didn't cut the red wire (her lucky color). She replies she didn't cut is because she didn't want to sever the red string of fate between her and Shinichi.

The movie ends with Conan remarking that there is no "red string", and mentions that's because "it's no use... as long as I'm Conan".

Music

End credit music "Happy Birthday" by Kyoko.

Dub changes

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Daizo Kurokawa - Magnum Cornhouser
• Mina Kurokawa - Mina Cornhouser
• Daisuke Kurokawa - Mortimer Cornhouser
• Manami Nakazawa - Minami Goodsbe
• Teiji Moriya - Leo Joel

See also

• Movies