Detective Conan 26th Feature Film Scores Record-Breaking First Day Gross

 

 

The Detective Conan anime franchise’s latest 26th feature film Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine was finally released in Japan on April 14 and earned an impressive 850 million yen (6.35 million USD) on 580,000 admissions on its first day, which was the highest in the film series’ history. The news was announced at the film’s stage greeting event held at the TOHO Cinemas Hibiya theater in Tokyo on April 15.

 

The highest first-day gross in the series to date was 609 million yen (4.55 million USD) marked by the 24th film The Scarlet Bullet in 2021. Kurogane no Submarine‘s 850 million yen was 163 percent of the first day gross of the film series’ highest grossing film in 2022, The Bride of Halloween.

 

The Bride of Halloween‘s total domestic gross fell just short of the 10 billion yen mark (9.78 billion yen / 73 million USD), so distributor Toho expects Kurogane no Submarine‘s box office gross to exceed the 10 billion yen mark for the first time in the film series.

 

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The film’s official website introduces the story as below:

 

This time’s location is set in the sea near the Hachijo-jima island, Tokyo. Engineers from around the world have gathered for the full-scale operation of “Pacific Buoy,” an offshore facility to connect security cameras owned by the worldwide police forces. A test of a certain “new technology” based on a face recognition system is underway there.

 

Meanwhile, Conan and the Detective Boys visit Hachijo-jima at Sonoko’s invitation and receive a phone call from Subaru Okiya (a graduate student in the Graduate School of Engineering at Tokyo Metropolitan University, who is an FBI agent Shuichi Akai and a black-robed organization’s Rye) informing them that a Europol employee was murdered in Germany by the Black Organization’s Jin.

 

Conan, who is disquieted, sneaks into the facility and finds that a female engineer has been kidnapped by the Black Organization…! Furthermore, a USB drive containing certain information in her possession ends up in the hands of the organization… A black shadow also creeps up on Ai Haibara (Detective Boys’ Ai Haibara / Shiho Miyano / the Black Organization’s Shelly)…

 

 

Source: Mantan Web  

 

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