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22nd Detective Conan Film's English-Subtitled Trailer Streamed
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Malaysian film chain GSC Movies began streaming an English-subtitled trailer for Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer (Meitantei Conan: Zero no Shikkōnin), the 22nd film in the Detective Conan series, on May 7. The film will open in Malaysia on Thursday, May 17.
Odex is screening the film in Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
The film opened in Japan on April 13. The film sold 1,289,000 tickets in its first three days to earn 1.67 billion yen (about US$15.6 million). The film's opening Saturday and Sunday sales represented 100.7% of the total that last year's Meitantei Conan Kara Kurenai no Love Letter film earned in its first Saturday and Sunday. Last year's film became the highest-grossing domestic film in Japan in 2017, earning a total of 6.89 billion yen (about US$61.1 million), which is also a franchise record. The new film could possibly be the series' sixth consecutive film to break the franchise's previous box-office record. As of May 13, the film had sold a total of 5,190,000 tickets and earned 6.7 billion yen (about US$61.1 million), and remains #1 in the Japanese box office after five weeks, topping Avengers: Infinity War for three consecutive weeks so far.
Yuzuru Tachikawa (Mob Psycho 100, Death Parade) directed the film. The film is a sequel of the series' 20th film, Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare, and centers on Tōru "Zero" Amuro. Police chief Hyōe Kuroda, who is rumored to be Rum in the Black Organization, also made his first appearance in a film for the franchise.
Aya Ueto played the character Kyōko Tachibana, a lawyer representing Ran's father Kogorō Mori. Daikichi Hakata played Fumikazu Haba, a deceased judicial intern and former colleague of Tachibana. Tachibana once worked with him at the same law firm.
In the film's story, there is a sudden explosion at Tokyo Summit's giant Edge of Ocean facility. The shadow of Tōru Amuro, who works for the National Police Agency Security Bureau as Zero, appears at the site. In addition, the "triple-face" character is known as Rei Furuya as a detective and Kogorō Mōri's apprentice, and he is also known as Bourbon as a Black Organization member. Kogorō is arrested as a suspect in the case of the explosion. Conan conducts an investigation to prove Kogorō's innocence, but Amuro gets in his way.
Masaharu Fukuyama performed the film's ending theme song "ZERO."
