The Time-Bombed Skyscraper

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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
Broadcast rating when aired on television:	21.6% (aired on January 5, 1998) 18.6% (aired on March 24, 2003) 12.9% (aired on March 13, 2006) 8.8% (aired on April 8, 2016) 9.4% (aired on February 5, 2021)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Ninzaburo Shiratori Hiroshi Agasa Sonoko Suzuki Detective Boys Shinichi Kudo
Case solved by:	Shinichi Kudo (via Conan on phone)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Kenji Kodama Masato Sato
Technical Director:	Masato Sato Yasuichiro Yamamoto (asst.) Kazuo Nogami (asst.) Kazuhiko Ishii (asst.) Atsushi Yano (asst.)
Animation director:	Masatomo Sudo (chief) Akio Kawamura Hirotoshi Takaya Kumiko Shishido Keiko Sasaki Yoshihiro Shimizu Kei Hyodo Seiji Muta Masahiko Itojima (effects)
Character Design:	Masatomo Sudo Sub: Kei Hyodo, Masahiko Itojima, Yasuhiro Moriki, Akio Kawamura, Yasuichiro Yamamoto
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 Hiroshi Agasa Chafurin as Juzo 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 Yuzuru Fujimoto as Sakaguchi Tomoko Miyadera as Mina Kurokawa Kazuhiro Yamaji as Daisuke Kurokawa, Doctor, breaking voice machine Kayoko Fujii as Manami Nakazawa Jin Hirao as Okamoto Shun Tanigawa as Kohei Okamoto Yuji Fujishiro as Kusunoki Kazuya Ichijo as Driver Meidai Nomura as Satoshi Yokoyama Takumi Yamazaki as Train driver Isshin Chiba as Police officer Asako Dodo as Hamburger shop clerk Ako Mayama as Boy, Old woman Shuji Kawatani as Train passenger Hiroyuki Kohori as Train passenger
Music
Theme song:	Happy Birthday
Soundtrack:	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
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The Time-Bombed Skyscraper is the 1st movie in the Detective Conan franchise. It was released in Japan on April 19, 1997.

Characters introduced

Ninzaburo Shiratori
	28 years old Police officer from Tokyo Police District

Cast

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

Gadgets

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

Case

Situation

Daizo Kurokawa, a wealthy heart surgeon, was murdered in his own home, hit over the head with a statue. He left a dying message, grabbing the keys of his computer keyboard: JUN.

Murder
	Location: Kurokawa household, Tokyo forest Victim: Daizo Kurokawa Age: 62 years old Cause of death: Blunt-force trauma Suspects: Mina Kurokawa, Daisuke Kurokawa, and Manami Nagazawa While the victim sat at his computer, the culprit snuck up behind and hit him over the head with a statue.

Kogoro, wrongly of course, deduces that the dying message pointed to the victim's second wife Mina, saying that "JUN" means June and since June is also called "minazuki" or dry month and Mina was born in June, he wanted to leave a hint that he was murdered by his own wife. Mina is furious. Conan hits Kogoro with his stun-wristwatch and begins explaining the actual facts of the case to the police and the three suspects.

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The culprit hits over Daizo's head.

Daizo is making the message "Ma-Na-Mi".

The actual murderer was Manami Nagazawa, the housekeeper of the Kurokawa family. The message wasn't supposed to be "JUN" because the computer keyboard was set to romaji instead of hiragana when the dying victim typed out his message. Switched to hiragana, the message reads "Ma-Na-Mi". Conan also makes Manami show everyone a bloodstain on her sock and she confesses. Her motive was revenge for her late husband, who died after a heart surgery performed by Daizo while he was drunk last year. Manami says she tried to find witnesses that Daizo got drunk before the surgery, but his colleagues were too scared to come forward. So, she decided to work for Daizo as a housekeeper and planned her revenge for this day, the first anniversary of her husband's death.

Conan finds an unusual letter in his mail, an invitation to a party addressed to Shinichi.

The next day, April 26, Conan goes to Professor Agasa's house, Conan looks through his mail and finds an unusual-looking letter adressed to Shinichi Kudo, inviting Shinichi to a party. The letter was sent by famous architect Teiji Moriya. Conan decides to call Ran using his Voice-Changing Bowtie and tells her about the invitation, asking her to go to the party in his stead because he is "too busy with his case" and that Kogoro and "that boy who lives with you" can join her as well.

Ran accepts, under the condition that Shinichi joins her for a movie the following Saturday. Conan, horrified, tries to get her to agree to a later date but she insists it has to be on Saturday, May 3. She also asks "Shinichi" if he prefers red or blue. Conan, confused, replies red is his favourite colour and says goodbye to Ran. He has no idea why Ran insists on meeting Shinichi on May 3. On the way home, he meets Megure who introduces him to another constable working in his department, Ninzaburo Shiratori.

At home, Ran tells Conan and Kogoro that she is going on a date with Shinichi on May 3. She wants to take Shinichi to a late showing at the cinema and, at midnight, surprise him with a red polo shirt because he said red was his favourite colour. Conan suddenly remembers that Shinichi birthday is on May 4. Ran also explains about the tea party invitation and Kogoro isn't exactly enthusiastic about going, so Conan comes up with a trick to convince him.

Kogoro is pondering Moriya's quiz.

On April 29, Kogoro, Ran and Conan attend the tea party at Teiji Moriya's house and explain that Shinichi couldn't make it, but Kogoro came instead, delighting their host at having "another famous detective" as his guest. Moriya greets his guests and gives them a riddle, telling everyone that whoever solves it first gets a private tour of his gallery, with the photos of fourteen works. Conan quickly figures it out and Moriya takes him and Ran upstairs. They chat with the famous architect and Ran says that she is going on a date with Shinichi and they will go watch a film in a building designed by Moriya.

The following day, Ran goes shopping and Conan meets Professor Agasa, asking for his help because he has no idea what to do about his date with Ran. Agasa's TV is on and they watch the news. Someone stole a large quantity of octane from a plant, a gas used to make plastic explosives.

Arson
	Location: Kurokawa household, Tokyo forest Suspects: Unknown bomber The incident of the burning house is reported on the news. It is unknown whether any fatalities occurred, as the second wife or the eldest son.

Arson
	Location: Mizushima household, Tokyo Suspects: Unknown bomber It is unknown whether any fatalities occurred.

Arson
	Location: Yasuda (right) and Akutsu (left) households, Tokyo Suspects: Unknown bomber It is unknown whether any fatalities occurred.

Worried, Agasa switches the TV off and his phone rings suddenly. Someone using a voice changing device asks for Shinichi so Agasa hands his phone over. The unknown caller explains that he is the one who stole the octane and asks for Shinichi's phone number. Conan gives it to him and the man tells him "go to Greenbelt Park or the kids will die."

Conan hurries to Greenbelt Park and sees his friends Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko playing with a remote controlled plane. Mitsuhiko explains to Conan that a strange man with a beard offered the plane to them. Conan has a closer look and notices that there is a bomb attached to the plane, telling Ayumi to let go of it immediately. Ayumi drops the toy and the antenna on top of the plane breaks, causing it to begin flying around uncontrollably. Conan uses his Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes and kicks the controller into the plane, blowing it up.

Conan, Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko escape in time. When Conan looks at the flames created by the exploding plane, he realises that the bomb was actually filled with plastic explosives and that this was a serious incident.

As he goes home, his phone rings again and someone says there is going to be another bomb waiting for him.

Bombing
	Location: Park Suspects: Unknown bomber Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko were given a toy plane with plastic bombs attached to it by a mysterious man. Conan manages to safely destroy the plane and nobody gets hurt.

Bombing

Location: Road Victim: Conan Edogawa Injury: Improvised explosive device in cat box Suspects: Unknown bomber A second bomb is planted in a cat box alongside a stray cat, which was taken by an unaware old lady. Conan "borrows" a bicycle from a boy to catch up with her and manages to take the bomb to a riverside, where it explodes away from other people. This time, Conan suffers several injuries in the explosion.

Conan locates the second bomb and only just about gets it to a deserted place before it blows up. He is knocked back by the blast and hits a tree, falling unconscious.

Conan wakes up in hospital. Agasa says the culprit could have a grudge to settle with Shinichi and Megure agrees. They try to remember Shinichi's most famous cases to see if that provides any hint to the bomber's identity. Megure recalls a past case that was solved by Shinichi.

Accident (past)
	Location: Nishitama City Victim: Office lady Age: 25 years old Cause of death: Hit by a car Suspects: Kohei Okamoto and his father A year ago, while driving and smoking, Kohei Okamoto accidentally fatally hit a young woman. However, something doesn't match.

Shinichi was called by Megure to help investigations.

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Shinichi said the evidence didn't prove that Kohei was driving when the accident occurred and that he could be covering for his father, Mayor Okamoto. The evidence would support this.

There has been another bomb threat, this time somehow related to the train system. The threat carried another cryptic hint, "X the XX".

Planned bombing
	Location: Train tracks and a bridge on Yamanote line Suspects: Unknown bomber Five bombs were planted on the train tracks. The police instruct the drivers to keep speeding up the trains or else the bombs will explode.

Conan figures out the hint- the bombs are located between the rail tracks (X the XX) based on the bomber's other hints to keep the trains going above 60 km/h and that the bombs would explode at sunset. They realise the bombs are using solar power to reset their timers. As sunset approaches, the police help navigate the trains off the tracks and are able to safely recover all five bombs.

Megure and Shiratori, together with Conan and Kogoro, go to question Moriya.

People

Daizo Kurokawa
	Victim (bludgeoned) 62 years old Kurokawa Clinic director Heart surgeon

Mina Kurokawa
	32 years old Birth date: June Daizo's second wife

Daisuke Kurokawa
	36 years old Daizo's eldest son Kurokawa Clinic internal medicine doctor

Manami Nakazawa
	27 years old Kurokawa housemaid

Teiji Moriya
	47 years old Leading architect Tohto University Architecture Department professor

Woman
	Victim (car hit) 25 years old (1 year ago) Nishitama City office lady

Kohei Okamoto
	21 years old (1 year ago) Mayor's son Electronic engineering student

Okamoto
	52 years old (1 year ago) Nishitama City mayor

Satoshi Yokoyama
	TV announcer

Sakaguchi
	52 years old Tohto Railway operations chief

Kusunoki
	45 years old Tohto Railway command center chief

Yoshioka
	Tohto Railway driver

Sakurai
	Tohto Railway train 10 driver

Mr. Moriya
	Deceased (fire) Architect Teiji's father Shiratori's idol

Mrs. Moriya
	Deceased (fire) Teiji's mother

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 older, less symmetrical works (Kurokawa, Mizushima, Yasuda, and Akutsu buildings, and the bridge) and replace them with symmetrical structures (all of the bomb targets were either at or near buildings he designed). His hatred for Shinichi is due to the fact that, because of him, Mayor Okamoto (who supported his "Perfect Nishitama City") was arrested, and his building plan was stopped. With his crimes exposed, Moriya attempts to detonate the bombs inside his house, but is stopped when Conan reveals that he removed the batteries earlier when he planted some fake evidence (Moriya's disguise outfits) to lure him into spilling the beans. However, Moriya taunts the group that he has one more place that he wants to destroy.

Bombing

Location: Beika City Building Victim: Ran Mouri and various people trapped inside the building Culprit: Teiji Moriya A large amount of bombs were planted throughout the building to destroy Moriya's "ultimate disgrace", and some of the explosions begin to seal all the entrances, killing and injuring many innocent people. Since the last and most gigantic explosion will occur at 0:03, it's now up to Ran to disarm the bomb by herself.

Conan contacts Ran (using his tie to mimic his Shinichi voice) and tells her that she must find and disarm the bomb.

Several bombs are revealed to be in the mall where Ran is. They explode and many civilians get trapped in the building. Conan (who enters the building after the first explosion) contacts Ran (using his tie to mimic his Shinichi voice) and tells her that she must find and disarm the last and largest bomb. Ran finds the box with the bomb. Conan, who is now separated from Ran by a damaged door, guides her through cutting various wires using plans left by Moriya. Ran is down to two wires, a red one and a blue one. The plans do not include any instructions regarding these two wires. If the wrong one is cut, it would result in the bomb detonating.

Conan loses hope, since this means that 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 by rescue workers and taken out of the building while realizing then the red wire is booby-trapped. However, Ran can no longer hear Conan's instructions, so he believes her to be in trouble. To his surprise, Ran cuts the blue wire and saves everyone. While Kogoro takes all credit with the press for the resolution, Conan asks Ran why she didn't cut the red wire (her lucky color). She replies that she didn't cut 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 it's because "it's no use... as long as I'm Conan".

Translation changes

Anime

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

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

• In the English Dub, the name of Manami's husband is Kevin. He was not named in the original version.
• In the English Dub, neither Kohei Okamoto or Mayor Okamoto are addressed by their name.

Trivia

• According to The Legend of Red Thread poster, the movie's original author is Issei Shinnai and it is directed by Shunzo Kano while starring Sansei Takayama and Wakkanai Yamazaki.
• In the flashback scene, Kohei Okamoto and his father drive a 1996 silver Toyota Crown Majesta S150. The license plate number is 新宿 33, す 32-59 (Shinjuku 33, Su 32-59).
• In Night Baron Murder Case, Akiko Sayama was watching a movie on TV where there was a bomb on a skyscraper, referencing this case.
• The TR Beika Line in real-life is JR Yamanote Line and the JR Tokyo inspired from JR Yamanote Line 205-0 series set 30.
• Shinichi/Conan's birthday is May 4th.
• First visible proof of Conan having a phone for just Shinichi, which is probably different from Conan's phone, although this is not canon.
• The name of Moriya Teiji is a pun on the name of Sherlock Holmes' antagonist Professor James Moriarty if written as "Moriarty J."
• The Beika City Building in real-life is the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.
• Mizushima household is modeled after Nymphenburg Palace, Yasuda's after Johnston-Felton-Hay House, and Akutsu's after Glen Auburn.
• The tradition of inviting guest voice actor to promote the movie did not start until The Raven Chaser. However, this movie has some guest voice actors. Yomiuri TV announcer Meidai Nomura as announcer Satoshi Yokoyama, Shuji Kawatani and Hiroyuki Kohori of comedy duo 2-cho Kenju as train passengers.

Music

End credit music: Happy Birthday, by Kyoko.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	اللحظة الأخيرة	The Last Moment
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El gratacel explosiu	The exploding Skyscraper
Chinese (Simplified)	计时引爆摩天楼	The time-bombed skyscraper
Chinese (Traditional)	引爆摩天樓	To detonate the skyscraper
French (Dubbed)	Le gratte-ciel infernal	The Hellish Skyscraper
French (Subbed)	Le gratte-ciel à retardement	The delayed skyscraper
Galician	Explosión no rañaceos	Explosion in the Skyscraper
German	Der tickende Wolkenkratzer	The Ticking Skyscraper
Italian	Fino alla fine del tempo	Until the End of Time
Korean	시한장치의 마천루	Time-Bombed Skyscraper
Persian	آسمانخراشی از بمب	The Bombed Skyscraper
Polish	Architekt zniszczenia	Architect of destruction
Portuguese (Brazil dub)	Detetive Conan	Detective Conan
Spanish (Castilian dub)	Peligro en el rascacielos	Danger in the Skyscraper
Spanish (American dub)	El rascacielos del tiempo	The Time Skyscraper
Thai	คดีปริศนาระเบิดระฟ้า	The Mysterious Bomb in the Sky
Vietnamese	Quả bom chọc trời	The Sky-scraping Bomb

See also

• Movies