The Phantom of Baker Street
(Meitantei Konan: Beikā Sutorīto no Bōrei)
September 20, 2025 (Youtube)
7.4% (aired on February 9, 2018)
Layout checker: Yoshiharu Shimizu
Layout: Seiji Muta, Takashi Hyodo, Akio Kawamura, Hideyuki Motohashi, Masahiko Itojima
Design Works: Kumiko Shishido, Takashi Sano, Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri
Hideyuki Tanaka as Yusaku Kudo and Sherlock Holmes
Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa
Chafurin as Juzo Megure
Kazuhiko Inoue as Ninzaburo Shiratori
Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba
Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki
Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara
Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida
Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima
Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
Ai Orikasa as Hiroki Sawada
Megumi Ogata as Hideki Moroboshi
Urara Takano as Shinya Takizawa
Rikako Aikawa as Akira Emori
Mitsuki Saiga as Seiichiro Kikugawa
Hiroaki Hirata as Tadaaki Kashimura
Yuzuru Fujimoto as Colonel Moran
Eisuke Yoda as Tetsunosuke Emori
Ryuichi Horibe as Toshio Moroboshi
Kiyoshi Kobayashi as Professor Moriarty
Sho Hayami as Jack the Ripper
Sumi Shimamoto as Irene Adler
Kei Hayami as Mrs. Hudson
Katsuhisa Hoki as Mysterious vagrant
Toshihiko Nakajima as Gambler
Masane Tsukayama as Thomas Schindler
Takashi Nagasako as Assembly hall staff
Ryuzo Hasuike as Chairperson
Yasunori Masutani as Schindler's bodyguard
Osamu Hosoi as Schindler's bodyguard
Kazusa Murai as Shimizu
Asako Dodo as Announcement
MAI as Caster
Shogakukan young voice actors: Yuki Maesako, Tsubasa Funaki, Saori Inda, Mai Kashihara, Shoki Higashiyama, Yuji Horiuchi, Kanae Arai, Akiyuki Tanaka, and Ten Saoi
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Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street (名探偵コナン ベイカー街の亡霊 Meitantei Konan: Beikā Sutorīto no Bōrei)[2] is the 6th movie in the Detective Conan franchise. It was released in Japan on April 20, 2002 and it was directed by Kenji Kodama and written by the famous mystery writer Hisashi Nozawa. This movie brought 3.4 billion yen at the box office, becoming the ninth highest grossing film in the franchise. The movie was first released between the episodes 274 and 275.
It was released in North America by FUNimation on DVD in February 16, 2010 as Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street, marking the last Case Closed media to be released by the company. As part of the Detective Conan: Cinema Saturdays event in Anime! on TMS Official Channel channel, the movie had a limited free release between September 20 to September 28, 2025 with English subs.
This movie was a double story: in real life, the murder of a IT magnate's chief programmer, while in the virtual world, a virtual reality game that Conan and friends played, their lives were in danger.
Cast
Case
Situation
A TV program introduces Hiroki Sawada, a ten-year old computer prodigy. The reporter explains that Hiroki is already in graduate school at MIT. He has developed a DNA-tracker software and is now about to complete his second major project, an artificial mind called Noah's Ark. Since Hiroki's mother died, he has been looked after by Thomas Schindler, CEO of Schindler Inc., an influential software company. Schindler recognised Hiroki's enormous talent and encouraged him to develop it further, putting him under a rigorous study program with little free time or time to be a child.
Hiroki, who has been watching the program about himself, turns his TV off and goes back to his computer, putting the finishing touches on Noah's Ark. Once he is satisfied, he sends the artificial intelligence on his way and his computer shows the message "Noah's Ark sailed away", which also triggers an alarm in the building he is working in. A security guard notices the alarm and calls Thomas Schindler. Together, they try to enter Hiroki's room. When they finally manage to open the door, Hiroki is nowhere to be found. Dismayed, Schindler sees Hiroki's shoes on the balcony and has to conclude the inevitable: Hiroki committed suicide by jumping off the balcony.
His computer screen shows a sailing boat (Noah's Ark) on water and a message that reads: "Goodbye from Hiroki".
Two years later, Schindler Inc. presents its newest product at Beika City Hall, a virtual reality game system called Cocoon. Many children attend the presentation, hoping they are among the lucky ones who are allowed to test Cocoon for the first time. To be included among the first players, the children have to obtain a special badge that was quite expensive. Conan, Ayumi, Genta, Haibara, and Mitsuhiko watch the crowd sadly, realising none of them could afford to pay for it, when Professor Agasa and Yusaku Kudo join them. Agasa hands Conan a badge and says it was paid for by his parents and that his mother, Yukiko, could not join them because she has a class reunion.
The other Detective Boys trade Golden Kamen Yaiba Cards with some other children in exchange for a Cocoon badge. So, all five of them end up being called up for the game tests.
Meanwhile, CEO Schindler gets into an argument with Tadaaki Kashimura, one of his top programmers, in the basement of City Hall. Schindler stabs Kashimura fatally, then uses a CD data theft and leaves. In his dying moments, Kashimura dips his finger into his own blood and leaves a message for the police. He presses the letters "J", "T", and "R" on the keyboard before he sinks back dead.
Conan finds the body and decides to actually join the Cocoon test as well, recognising that there might be a clue to the murderer's identity in the game. Yusaku, who was consulted by Kashimura when they developed the game, realises "JTR" has to mean "Jack the Ripper".
Among great interest from the audience, Cocoon is turned on and the children are instructed to sit into special chairs fitted with virtual reality glasses. Thomas Schindler explains that participants in Cocoon are put into a trance-like state to fully immerse themselves in the game. Suddenly, the system comes alive and a computer-generated voice explains that it is "Noah's ark" and has taken control of the program to "reset Japan". Most of the children participating in the game come from wealthy and influential families and Noah's Ark explains that it is challenging that status quo. Two parents try to get their children out of the chairs but a sudden burst of electricity shocks them as they try to open the cover of the seats. Noah's Ark further explains that it has modified the virtual games so they are more challenging and the children have to play them. If all children fail, the artificial intelligence will kill them with an electromagnetic burst (EMP), but they are allowed to leave if one child wins their game.
The participants are told they can chose between five different virtual reality (VR) levels of the game: Vikings, Paris-Dakar Rally, Colosseum, Solomon's Treasure, and Old Time London.
Conan, Ran, and the Detective Boys choose level 5, a mystery set in 19th-century London. The game starts, and Conan discovers he can't use Agasa's inventions. Professor Agasa is able to communicate with Conan and sends him a hint which makes Conan realise that Sherlock Holmes is the "supporting character" they have to find. Near 221 B Baker Street, a vagrant plays the accordion and sings an odd song. The children don't pay him any attention.
Mrs. Hudson mistakes the children for the Baker Street Irregulars and invites them into 221 B Baker Street, explaining that Holmes and Watson left for Dartmoor a day earlier. Ran has a look through Holmes' notes and realises he is investigating Jack the Ripper, which, as Conan immediately figures out, means the serial killer must be connected to Professor Moriarty.
Finding the criminal mastermind is next to impossible, so Conan tells everyone they will have to seek out his right-hand man, Colonel Sebastian Moran. Luckily, Colonel Moran spends his afternoons at one and the same gentlemen's club so they know where to go. At the club, they end up in a brawl, and Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko have to quit the game. Conan forces the colonel into a stand-off, but before he can reply, an elderly man enters the room and tells Conan that Professor Moriarty has sent for them.
A carriage driver leads them to a carriage and says it will take everyone to Moriarty. Conan exposes the driver's identity: it is nobody other than Professor Moriarty himself. Moriarty reveals that he feels responsible for Jack the Ripper's crimes. He took the boy in when he was living on the streets, and Jack the Ripper learned a lot of the tricks of the trade from the master criminal. Professor Moriarty wants to help bring Jack the Ripper down and announces that he will post a message to Jack in the following day's newspapers, requesting that he kill someone. He refuses to name the newest target, saying the children will figure it out once they read his message.
Moriarty keeps his promise and, reading through the message, Conan deduces that Moriarty has put a prize on the head of Irene Adler, a famous actress and, famously, the only woman Sherlock Holmes ever respected.
People
Game characters
Resolution
Trivia
- This is the last Detective Conan movie to be made using traditional animation.
- This movie is notable for having a screenplay written by a famous Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist Hisashi Nozawa. This is the only Detective Conan movie he wrote. Kazunari Kochi wrote all the previous movies and many of the movies, ending with Dimensional Sniper.
- This is the final movie and final Detective Conan media in general to be dubbed in English by Funimation Entertainment. The dub studio ceased production of the English dub for the anime in 2009 and for the movies in 2010, due to poor home video sales. Its license expired in 2018, and there has been no new content since then.
- The movies would return, dubbed in English by a different studio, Bang Zoom! Entertainment]], starting with Zero the Enforcer.
- This would also mark the final voice over appearance of Bill Flynn as Dr. Agasa before his death.
- Thomas Schindler's limousine is a silver Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine.
- Yusaku Kudo and Professor Agasa's limousine is a dark blue Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine.
- The date in London is declared to be September 30, 1888, which is a Sunday, yet Moriarty says that the following day is to be Sunday.
- Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are said to be away on business at Dartmoor in reference to The Hound of the Baskervilles case; however, this case did not take place until a year later, in 1889.
- Noah's Ark is a reference to HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, or Ultron from Marvel Comics, who is shown as backing himself up and traveling through the internet to create chaos. It also shares settings with the popular sci-fi horror manga and anime franchise "Gantz," as the cocoon gaming pods are similar to the black orb in Gantz. Gantz forces people to play against their will to survive in a sick, twisted, almost video-game-like setting.
- It's also similar to John Kramer/Jigsaw from the Saw movies, despite this movie being released 2 years before the first Saw movie. John Kramer seeks to place his Victims in death traps which can be escaped in order to make people more appreciative of their lives, just as Noah's Ark wishes to reset Japan's youth and prevent the repetition of their parents' mistakes.
- The game that Conan plays in the post-credits scene is a reference to Pac-Man.
- The gun picked up by Genta at Sherlock Holmes' house is a Tranter 54-bore self-cocking revolver.
- Even though the children are unaware that the parents can hear their voices in the game, Haibara did call Conan "Kudo-kun" during her game over, and it is never brought up after.
- Technically only Yusaku appears in this movie. Yukkiko appears as Irene Adler in the game and her absence in the movie is explained away by Agasa, who states that she had a class reunion.
- Aside from Yusaku making a brief cameo during a flashback sequence in The Fourteenth Target, this would be the only film where Shinichi's parents appear in the storyline until The Million Dollar Pentagram.
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In other languages
| Language | Title | Translation |
|---|---|---|
 Arabic |
لغز شارع بيكر | The Mystery of Baker Street |
 Basque |
Baker Street-eko mamua | The Phantom of Baker Street |
 Catalan |
El fantasma de Baker Street | The Phantom of Baker Street |
 Chinese (Simplified) |
贝克街的亡灵 | The Phantom of Baker Street |
 French |
Le fantôme de Baker Street | The Phantom of Baker Street |
 Galician |
A pantasma de Baker Street | The Phantom of Baker Street |
 German |
Das Phantom der Baker Street | The Phantom of Baker Street |
 Italian |
Il fantasma di Baker Street | The Phantom of Baker Street |
 Spanish |
El fantasma de Baker Street | The Phantom of Baker Street |
 Thai |
ปริศนาบนถนนสายมรณะ | Mystery on the Deadly Street |
 Vietnamese |
Bóng ma phố Baker | The Phantom of Baker Street |