On April 18, Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback, the 28th feature film in the Detective Conan/Case Closed anime franchise, opened in a total of 522 theaters across Japan, which was the largest number in the history of the franchise. In addition to the regular schedule, the film had its world’s fastest screenings at 23 theaters in 10 prefectures from midnight on the first day of its release.
The film series’ official X (formerly Twitter) confirmed today that the film earned 1.05 billion yen (7.39 million USD) on 690,000 admissions on its opening day in Japan. The first-day gross was 109 percent of that of the previous 27th film last year, Case Closed: The Million-dollar Pentagram. The 27th film earned 960 million yen (6.75 million USD) on 630,000 admissions on its opening day according to Mantan Web and later become the highest-grossing film in the franchise with a total domestic gross of 15.8 billion yen (111 million USD).
Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback Main Trailer 2
Katsuya Shigehara (unit director on Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine) directs Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback, with Takeharu Sakurai (Kurogane no Submarine, The Scarlet Bullet and more Conan movies) on the script.
The synopsis on the film’s official website reads (translated):
Mt. Miho in the Yatsugatake mountain range, Nagano Prefecture. While pursuing a “certain man” in the snowy mountains, Kansuke Yamato, a Nagano Prefectural Police officer, unexpectedly saw a shadow of someone in his field of vision. When he was caught off guard, a rifle bullet fired by “a man” grazed his left eye, causing an avalanche with a loud earth tremor. The avalanche swallowed him up…
Ten months later. After receiving a report that a researcher at the Nobeyama observatory of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan had been attacked by an unknown assailant, Kansuke, who miraculously survived the avalanche, and Yui Uehara rushed to the scene. During the interview, the giant parabolic antenna of the observatory is set in motion, and suddenly the left eye of the injured and one-eyed Kansuke begins to tingle violently…
That night, the Mori Detective Agency received a call from a detective called “Wani,” a close colleague of Kogoro’s from his days at the Metropolitan Police Department. He said that he was investigating an avalanche that Kansuke was involved in, and that he found Kogoro’s name in the case file. Kogoro promised to meet Wani at a later date, and Conan followed him, but as they were on their way to the meeting place, a gunshot suddenly rang out.
Source: “Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback” official X (formerly Twitter)
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