It has been announced that the world's earliest screening of the latest movie version of the popular anime "Detective Conan", "Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback of the One-Eyed", will be held from midnight on April 18th, the day of its release. Titled "'Sleepless' World's Fastest Screening", it will be screened at 23 theaters in 10 prefectures across the country.
Outdoor advertisements featuring Kogoro Mouri, the "sleeping detective" who is a key character in the latest film, will be displayed in five cities across Japan starting April 12th. A large image of Kogoro awake with one eye open, accompanied by the copy "I won't sleep this time!", will appear in the "sleepless towns" (Susukino, Hokkaido; Kabukicho, Tokyo; Dotonbori, Osaka; Sakae, Aichi; and Tenjin, Fukuoka).
In Tokyo's Kabukicho district, the Toho Building, which houses TOHO Cinemas Shinjuku, will have a huge wall advertisement and signage, and a total of four types of flags will be displayed on the 118-meter-long Godzilla Road. In addition, Conan and Kogoro will broadcast an educational broadcast on soliciting customers in two different versions every 15 minutes.
"Afterimage of the One-Eyed" is set in the snowy mountains of Nagano Prefecture, and depicts the "sleeping memory" that connects two seemingly unrelated people, Kogoro, who is asleep, and Yamato Gansuke, a Nagano Prefectural Police officer. While Gansuke is chasing a "certain man" in the snowy mountains, a bullet grazes his left eye and he is caught in an avalanche. Ten months later, Gansuke miraculously survives and receives a report that a researcher at Nobeyama Observatory has been attacked by someone, and rushes to the scene, but as soon as the observatory's parabolic antenna starts moving, his one-eyed left eye suddenly begins to tingle. Kogoro and Conan have arranged to meet a former colleague from the Metropolitan Police Department who is investigating the avalanche accident, and on their way to the meeting place, a gunshot rings out.
"Detective Conan" is a manga that depicts Conan Edogawa solving difficult cases one after another, and began serialization in "Weekly Shonen Sunday" (Shogakukan) in 1994. A TV anime series has been broadcast since 1996. The total number of comics published is over 270 million.
The 27th movie in the series, "Detective Conan: One million dollar guidepost," released last year, broke the box office record of 15.8 billion yen, setting a new record for the highest box office revenue in the series' history. The 28th movie, "Afterimage of an Eye," will be released on April 18th at 522 theaters, the largest number in the series' history.
