The Historical Actor Murder Case

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Episode 102-103 (Int. Episode 108-109)
Information
Title:	The Historical Actor Murder Case
Japanese title:	時代劇俳優殺人事件 (Jidaigeki Haiyū Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	May 25, 1998 (Part 1) June 1, 1998 (Part 2) May 22, 2021 (Remastered version Part 1) May 29, 2021 (Remastered version Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	17.7% 17.6%
Remastered rating:	7.2% (Part 1) 6.3% (Part 2)
Manga case:	#49
Season:	3
Manga source:	Volume 17: File 10 (170) ~ Volume 18: File 2 (172)
English version
English title:	Fame and Misfortune
Dubbed episode:	Episode 108-109
English airdate:	May 12, 2009 (DVD)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Officer Tome Forensic member
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Telephone (Part 1) Tea (Part 2) Model gun (Remastered version Part 1) Tea set (Remastered version Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	102: Johei Matsuura 103: Kenji Kodama
Storyboard:	102: Johei Matsuura 103: Kenji Kodama
Episode director:	102: Johei Matsuura 103: Kazuo Nogami
Animation director:	102: Atsushi Aono 103: Hiromi Muranaka
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Yasuhiro Moriki (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Next Conan's Hint Kenji Utsumi as Kozaburo Hijikata Sachi Asakura as Isami Nagakura Kihachiro Uemura as Hajime Okita Isshin Chiba as Forensics officer (Episode 102), Reporter A (Episode 103) Toshihiko Nakajima as Receptionist (Episode 102), Reporter B (Episode 103) (Uncredited: Officer Tome) Yasuhiro Takato as Reporter C (Episode 103) Naoki Makishima as Reporter D (Episode 103)
Music
Opening song:	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
Closing song:	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake

The Historical Actor Murder Case (時代劇俳優殺人事件 ,Jidaigeki Haiyū Satsujin Jiken) is the 102nd and 103rd episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Officer Tome Forensic member

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

When a famous samurai movie star, Kozaburo Hijikata, hires Kogoro for some consultations, the group is led to believe that he wants to learn about detective work for an upcoming TV series where he is to star as a detective. However, rumors of an affair between his beautiful and much younger wife Isami Nagakura and stunt actor Hajime Okita can't help but lead Conan to doubt the reason. When Isami is found dead on Okita's balcony, the group believes it is an open and shut case, but Conan doubts the authenticity when he sees a big smile form on Hijikata's face. Which side is truly right?

Murder
	Location: Okita's balcony Victim: Isami Nagakura Age: 38 years old Cause of death: Strangulation from garrote wire Suspects: Hajime Okita

Part 2

Kogoro tells the media all of the current suspicions so Inspector Megure and Detective Takagi can sneak Hijikata and Okita out the backdoor for questioning, but before doing so Conan goes up to the sixth floor to try and find some evidence that his suspicion of Hijikata being the killer is accurate. In the end one truth as always will prevail, but which side is truly innocent here?

People

Kozaburo Hijikata
	51 years old Actor

Hajime Okita
	29 years old Actor

Isami Nagakura
	Victim (strangled) 38 years old Actress Kozaburo's wife

Man
100px	Apartment building manager

Woman
100px	Apartment building receptionist

Reporter A
	News reporter at the crime scene

Reporter B
100px	News reporter at the crime scene

Reporter C
100px	News reporter at the crime scene

Reporter D
100px	News reporter at the crime scene

Resolution

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The culprit is Kozaburo Hijikata. Hijikata not only killed Isami since she cheated on him, but because of her life insurance which he needed to cash in on due to his upcoming bankruptcy. As such, he purchased three apartments with exactly the same furnishing, but in different floors of the same building; via tampering a little with the elevator numbers, he managed to trick Conan, Kogoro, and Ran. They ended up going to the sixth floor instead of the fifth, Hijikata had tampered with elevator by blacking out the bottom left line of the number display, with this he successfully turned the number six into number five.

And for the second floor number he kept their attention away by standing in front of the digital display, and handing out his business cards by forcing their heads down. Said apartment was right next to the one where Hijikata strangled Isami and left her body to be found by having her body hung with thread which he rigged to snap and caused her body to fall at the right time. With some rope he lowered Isami's lifeless body in the balcony below where her body was actually found. Which explains why Isami's body was found outside the balcony rather than halfway out the door like everyone had witnessed earlier.

In reality the room where Isami had supposedly been murdered was actually empty all along as the room belonged to Hijikata, so it was simple for him to have set up this trick. He also switched the room number tags to give the illusion that they were on the fifth floor but they were actually on the sixth. After lowering Isami’s body he switched the room tags back and waited outside the real room on the fifth floor. He also told Kogoro and the others to take the stairs because they were faster, but in reality it was because the altered elevator display hadn't been cleaned yet and he did not want them to find out about it.

• Evidence

The proof that Conan needed was a prop pistol that Kogoro accidentally broke in one of the apartments, and which he hid under a couch pillow; the model gun was found in the couch in the room on the sixth floor, proving that Kogoro and the others were taken to the sixth floor not the fifth. When the fingerprints are lifted off the model gun it will prove that Kogoro and the others had been on the sixth floor, as Hijikata wiped all their fingerprints from everything except the model gun. Faced with this evidence he admits his guilt stating he did this because Isami had been cheating on him and he needed her insurance money. In the end Hijikata is confident stating that the court will not charge him because he is a celebrity but Megure states he believes otherwise.

Translation changes

Anime

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

• Kozaburo Hijikata - Johnny Hijikata
• Hajime Okita - Harrison Blackwell
• Isami Nagakura - Isabel Nottingham

Trivia

• Each of the characters introduced in this case (Hijikata, Okita, and Isami) are named after historical figures of the Shinsengumi: Hijikata Toshizō, Okita Sōji, and Kondō Isami respectively.

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	運命のルーレット廻して	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite	Spinning the Roulette of Destiny	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
2	昼下がりの天使たち （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Hirusagari no Tenshitachi (Mantenrō Vājon)	Early Afternoon Angels (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
3	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	犯人のアジト （忍び込みver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10	爆破予告	Bakuha Yokoku	Bomb Warning	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
11	願い事ひとつだけ	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake	Just One Wish	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	運命のルーレット廻して	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite	Spinning the Roulette of Destiny	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
2	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
3	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
5	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
6	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
7	西の名探偵 （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Nishi no Meitantei (Mantenrō Vājon)	The Great Detective of the West (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
8	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
9	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
10	怪人包帯男１	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 1	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11	瞳を閉じれば～蘭のテーマ～ （インストヴァージョン）	Hitomi o Tojireba ~ Ran no Tēma (Insuto Vājon)	If I Close My Eyes ~ Ran's Theme (Instrumental ver.)	Boku ga Iru ~ TV Anime "Detective Conan" Image Song Album
12	願い事ひとつだけ	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake	Just One Wish	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake
13	コナンの勝利	Konan no Shōri	Conan's Victory	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	Not dubbed
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El cas de l'assassinat de l'actor de les pel·lícules de samurais	Samurai films actor murder case
Catalan (Valencian dub)	L'assassinat de l'actor samurai	Samurai actor murder
French	Le Meurtre de l'acteur des films de samouraï	The Murder of the Actor of the Samourai Movies
Galician	O asasinato do actor de películas de samurais	Samurai films actor murder
German	Eifersucht	Jealousy
Italian	L'illusionista	The Illusionist
Spanish (American dub)	El asesinato karateka	Karate practitioner murder
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El caso del actor Samurai	Samurai actor case
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมดาราหนังย้อนยุค	Historical film actor murder case
Vietnamese	Vụ án mạng của diễn viên kịch lịch sử	The Historical Actor Murder Case

See also

• Season 3