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22nd Detective Conan Film Gets Philippine Fan Screening on June 2

Odex announced on Wednesday that it will hold a Philippine fan screening for Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer (Meitantei Conan: Zero no Shikkōnin), the 22nd film in the Detective Conan series, at SM Megamall on June 2. Theatergoers will receive a T-shirt, metal badge, A4 folder, porcelain cup, and A2 poster.

Odex is screening the film in Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia.

The film opened in Japan on April 13. As of May 20, the film has earned 7,201,763,500 yen (about US$64.6 million) and has sold 5,526,858 tickets, and is now the highest-grossing film in the franchise. The film has also topped the Japanese box office for six consecutive weekends since it opened in Japan.

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.

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."

Source: Odex Philippines