Detective Conan - The ticking skyscraper

Anime movie
title	Detective Conan - The ticking skyscraper
Original title	名 探 偵 コ ナ ン 時 計 じ か け の 摩天 楼
transcription	Meitantei Konan: Tokei Jikake no Matenrō
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Publishing year	1997
Studio	Tōkyō Movie
length	100 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Kanetsugu Kodama
idea	Gosho Aoyama (template)
script	Kazunari Kouchi
music	Katsuo Ōno
synchronization

Detective Conan - The Ticking Skyscraper ( Japanese 名 探 偵 コ ナ ン 時 計 じ か け の 摩天 楼 , Meitantei Konan: Tokei Jikake no Matenrō ) is the first feature film based on the manga and anime series Detective Conan from 1997.

In Germany, the film was released on DVD on September 3, 2007 by Kazé Anime . The German premiere took place on January 3rd and 4th 2011 as a two-parter on RTL II .

action

Daizo Kurokawa, the owner of a hospital, was murdered. Shortly before his death, he left a death note using his computer keyboard. JUN is displayed on the computer screen. The private detective Kogoro Mori tries to solve the case and catches Mina Kurokawa, but is quickly drugged by Conan. With the help of his voice distortion device (a device disguised as a fly ) he imitates the voice of Kogoro Mori and solves the case as Kogoro asleep.

So he asks Commissioner Megure to take a closer look at the body. There is only blood on the little finger of the right hand, so that the message had to be written with it. When you enter the keys for JUN, the little finger automatically slips onto the Ki, Mu, and Ro keys. Kurokawa pressed the left shift key with the finger of his right hand, although this is not common. However, victim Daizo Kurokawa was hit on the back of the head and another hit from the right side that knocked him to the ground. The victim managed to drop the keyboard on the floor as the keyboard was on the floor next to him. Shortly before his death, he tapped the three keys with his finger, believing that he was typing with Japanese characters. If the button had not been pressed, Manami would be on the monitor; the name of the housekeeper. The "sleeping Kogoro" asks the maid to take off her slippers, there are traces of blood on her socks. So the real killer was the housemaid Manami Nakazawa.

Days later, Conan reads the mail that was delivered to him as Shinichi. In the process, he comes across a letter from Teiji Moriya, a famous architect who invites Shinichi to a garden party. Since Shinichi cannot go to the party as himself, he asks his friend Ran Mori to stand in for him. Ran takes this on the condition that the two go to the cinema together on May 3rd. Ran, Kogoro and Conan discover in Moriya's garden that Moriya's garden is symmetrical in design based on the English model.

The owner joins them and invites the others to the garden behind his house, where he puzzles everyone present. Since Conan can solve it, he and Ran can go to Moriya's gallery and look at pictures of his work. Ran is enthusiastic about the buildings, which are all symmetrically constructed, and tells Moriya when she sees the Baker City Building that she will soon be going to the cinema with Shinichi. She wants to buy Shinichi a polo shirt in his favorite color red for his birthday.

Back at the professor's house, Conan sees a message on television about the theft of explosives. The phone rings and the caller asks for Shinichi. Conan takes the call with his voice changer and learns that the person he was talking to, who also distorted his voice, stole the explosives. The stranger asks for Shinichi's cell phone number, which Conan gives him after a short period of hesitation. He was then instructed to go to the park, otherwise children would die there. Conan sets off and finds Ayumi Yoshida, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima playing with an airplane. He has to find out that something is on the fuselage and the three tell that they got the plane from a stranger, whereupon Conan reveals to them that a bomb is attached to their toy. The remote control falls down in shock. Conan shoots down the plane with his power kickboots, causing the explosive device to explode.

The stranger then calls again. He is shocked that a young boy solves the case for Shinichi. He seems to be watching Conan and tells him that there is another bomb under a tree. If he didn't find it fast enough, someone might take the 1pm bomb. The second bomb explodes

Conan goes to the place named by the stranger and looks for the bomb. He discovers her in a cat's carrying basket that is being taken by an old woman. She gets into a taxi and takes the bomb with her. He pursues the taxi with his solar-powered skateboard, but has to change to a bicycle due to damage to his vehicle, which he borrows from a boy. After he was able to stop the taxi, he picks up the bomb and drives it to a slope, where it explodes.

Conan is in the hospital because of the inhaled smoke, where he receives another call on his cell phone. The bomber claims to have placed five bombs on the Tokyo subway line, which explode as soon as the speed of a train moves below 60 kilometers per hour.

First, all trains are allowed to continue while the police, with Conan's help, locate the bombs. The trains are diverted to other tracks and can come to a halt there, while the bombs on the tracks are defused by the police. Three bombs detonate

Shinichi notes that the Kurokawas' bridge and house are among the buildings designed by Teiji Moriya. He suspects the architect himself as a bomber, since he stated at the party that the younger architects lacked a sense of aesthetics. When Conan goes back to the others and shows the evidence, Moriya is convicted as a perpetrator, so Shiratori arrests him on Megure's orders.

However, Moriya explains that his attacks are not over. He planted some bombs in the Baker City Building. He gave Shinichi three more minutes to defuse it.

The first bombs explode after a few seconds and block the exits of the building in which Ran Mori is located. Conan manages to get into the Baker City Building. He stops in front of the emergency exit door and calls Ran through reception. He talks to her as Shinichi and asks her to look for bombs, whereupon she finds one in a shopping bag. Conan gives Ran as Shinichi instructions to defuse the bomb

After Ran has already cut all known cables, she is faced with a riddle: There is both a blue and a red wire, neither of which are included in the construction plan of the bombs that Conan Moriya took. Since Conan himself doesn't know which one is the right one, he leaves the choice to Ran. He remembers the conversation between her and Moriya, whereupon he wants to tell Ran not to cut the red cable. However, she can no longer hear him due to falling debris.

Ran starts with the red cable and the film turns black and white. She cuts the cable and nothing happens. When the picture changes color again, you can see that Ran had cut the blue cable. The red wire was the trap Moriya had installed, knowing that Ran's and Shinichi's favorite color was red.

When Conan asks Ran a little later why she didn't cut the red cable, Ran replies that she didn't want to cut the red thread that might connect her to Shinichi.

synchronization

The German dubbed version was produced by the Berlin dubbing studio TV + Synchron GmbH. The dialogue book was written by Ulrike Lau, who also did the dubbing.

figure	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )	German speaker
Conan Edogawa	Minami Takayama	Tobias Müller
Shin'ichi Kudō (voice)	Kappei Yamaguchi
Ran Mōri	Wakana Yamazaki	Giuliana Jakobeit
Kogorō Mōri	Akira Kamiya	Jörg Hengstler
Ayumi Yoshida	Yukiko Iwai	Julia Meynen
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya	Ikue Ōtani	Fabian Hollwitz
Genta Kojima	Wataru Takagi	Michael Iwannek
Professor Hiroshi Agasa	Ken'ichi Ogata	Rudiger Evers
Sonoko Suzuki	Naoko Matsui	Julia digit
Commissioner Jūzō Megure	Hirotaka Shimasawa	Klaus-Dieter Klebsch
Inspector Ninzaburō Shiratori	Kaneto Shiozawa	Thomas Nero Wolff
Teiji Moriya	Taro Ishida	Helmut Gauss
Daisuke Kurokawa	Yamaji Kazuhiro	Jaron Lowenberg
Mina Kurokawa	Tomoko Miyadera	Ulrike Lau
Manami Nakazawa	Kayoko Fujii	Sabine Winterfeldt
Kouhei Okamoto	Shun Tanigawa	Bernhard Völger
Mayor Okamoto	Jin Hirao	Elmar Gutmann

reception

When it came to the German DVD release, Animania noticed that the picture quality shows the age: Contrasts are not as sharp and the colors are a bit pale. The German synchronization is good and the conclusion is: "Iconic, clever, humorous: Detective Conan [...] entertains and amuses the whole family". The manga scene rates the film as one of the worst in the series: the identity and motive of the perpetrator are quickly apparent, even if the film is still reasonably exciting and entertaining.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ movie 1. In ConanWiki.org. Retrieved October 25, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Animania 10/2007, p. 31.
3. ↑ Manga scene No. 33, p. 28.

Web links

• The ticking skyscraper in ConanWiki, the German-language fan wiki for Detective Conan
• Detective Conan - The ticking skyscrapers in the Internet Movie Database (English)