Following the tradition of annual releases of Detective Conan movies, just recently announced are the title and visuals for the latest film! Under the title Detective Conan: The Hellfire Sunflowers, this new movie will feature the popular character Kaito Kid!
The Detective Conan manga, serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday
since 1994, is a series that enjoys widespread popularity among the
Japanese population. Illustrated by Gosho Aoyama, the manga currently
boasts a striking 84 volumes on the market. The Detective Conan
TV anime series has been on the air since 1996, and since the release
of its first movie in 1997, new movies have been continuously produced
every single year. The collaboration movie Detective Conan: The Sniper from Another Dimension released just this year aroused astounding acclaim for surpassing the 2013 collaboration movie, Lupin the 3rd vs. Detective Conan: The Movie, and bringing in box-office revenues of over 4.9 billion yen.
To be released in 2015 is the 19th movie, Detective Conan: The Hellfire Sunflowers,
featuring a story which revolves around Van Gogh’s painting,
“Sunflowers.” This appears to be the very first art-themed mystery of
the entire movie series.
The
recently released illustration for the film is drawn by Mr. Aoyama
himself. The meticulously produced visuals, said to have been scrapped
and redrawn three times over, depict Conan looking back at the figure of
a haughtily smirking Kaito Kid, engulfed by flaming sunflowers. Kaito
Kid enjoys immense popularity as a character, and even has a TV anime, Magic Kaito 1412, telling the story from his perspective, which just starting broadcasting in October 2014. The original story Magic Kaito has been a serialized manga since 1987, and the manga is currently on hiatus with new chapters published irregularly.
In the Dec. 3 issue of Weekly Shonen Sunday,
this announcement illustration was used for a pinup poster included in
the issue. Although the movie release is not until April of 2015, it
seems that the poster is intended as an early Christmas present for the
fans.
Synopsis:
At an auction house in New York where multimillionaires are gathered together, a world-famous painting has just been sold. That painting, which was supposed to have been destroyed in a fire in Japan, is Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers.”
At an auction house in New York where multimillionaires are gathered together, a world-famous painting has just been sold. That painting, which was supposed to have been destroyed in a fire in Japan, is Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers.”
Jirokichi
Suzuki, the man who acquired this painting, had kept other bidders at
bay with the highest bid in all of history—300 million dollars. His
ambition is to collect the seven “Sunflowers” which are currently
scattered throughout the world, and hold the largest art exhibition ever
to exist at an art museum in Japan that is famous for its impenetrable
security.
His seemingly unattainable
aspirations make headline news, and the news spreads to the world and
reaches the group of Conan and Ran. Just as a group of specialists known
as “The Seven Samurai” were being recruited to take on the mission of
protecting the “Sunflowers,” suddenly Kaito Kid appears! He declares
that he will steal the painting by any means, and disappears. Why would
Kid, whose only interest is supposedly the Big Jewel, make such a
declaration? Immediately after his departure, arriving amongst the
commotion in the auction house is the high schooler who had heard rumors
about Kid—Detective Shinichi Kudo!
Later, as the aircraft carrying the “Sunflowers” heads for Japan, the “white shadow” appears in the sky once again!
Later, as the aircraft carrying the “Sunflowers” heads for Japan, the “white shadow” appears in the sky once again!
Truth and falsehood are jumbled together as this one and only treasure becomes the center of an art mystery that now begins!
Original Work: Gosho Aoyama (Shogakukan, Weekly Shonen Sunday ongoing serialization / Yomiuri TV, NTV ongoing broadcast)
Director: Kobun Shizuno
Script: Takeharu Sakurai
Music: Katsuo Ono
Conan Edogawa: Minami Takayama
Ran Mori: Wakana Yamazaki
Kogoro Mori: Rikiya Koyama
Kaito Kid: Kappei Yamaguchi
Animation Production: TMS/V1Studio
Production: Shogakukan / Yomiuri TV / NTV / ShoPro / Toho / TMS Entertainment
Distribution: Toho
Director: Kobun Shizuno
Script: Takeharu Sakurai
Music: Katsuo Ono
Conan Edogawa: Minami Takayama
Ran Mori: Wakana Yamazaki
Kogoro Mori: Rikiya Koyama
Kaito Kid: Kappei Yamaguchi
Animation Production: TMS/V1Studio
Production: Shogakukan / Yomiuri TV / NTV / ShoPro / Toho / TMS Entertainment
Distribution: Toho
© 2015 Gosho Aoyama / Detective Conan Production Committee
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