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U.K. Home Release of Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram Listed For February 2025
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram is the 27th film in the Detective Conan franchise. It opened in Japan on April 12. AIKO performs the film's theme song "Sōshi Sōai" (Mutual Love).
The film's story is described by CineAsia as follows:
"When a calling card belonging to the legendary Kid the Phantom Thief is found in an illustrious family's warehouse in Hokkaido, Conan's interest is piqued: why has a great thief well-known for his pursuit of precious gems set his eyes on swords dating back to the great Edo period? Meanwhile, the discovery of a body with a cross slashed across its chest leads to the "Merchant of Death", an arms dealer who has his eyes set on an even greater treasure. With Conan and his fellow detective Heiji Hattori both hot on his trail, the battle for treasure begins."
The film ranked at #1 in its opening weekend, selling 2,274,333 tickets and earning 3,352,494,500 (about US$21.7 million) yen in its first three days. The new film has exceeded the opening weekend of Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine (Iron Submarine), the 26th film that opened last year, making it the new best three-day opening for the franchise. The new film also has the biggest opening weekend for a film so far this year in Japan.
The film has earned a total of 15,300,781,540 yen (about US$94.7 million) as of July 7. The film is now the 15th highest-earning film of all time in Japan, and the ninth highest-earning anime film of all time in Japan, having surpassed Makoto Shinkai's Suzume, which reached the milestone in February 2023.
The film is now the highest-grossing film in the franchise, beating last year's Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine (Iron Submarine) film's 13.83 billion yen (about US$88.23 million) earnings.
The film is the second film in the franchise to have earned 10 billion yen, but Case Closed: The Million-dollar Pentagram earned it two days faster than Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine did. Detective Conan is now the first Japanese-animated film franchise to have two consecutive films pass 10 billion yen in earnings in Japan.
