Place Exposed to the Sun

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Episode 315 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Place Exposed to the Sun
Japanese title:	陽のあたる場所 (Hi no Ataru Basho)
Original airdate:	April 14, 2003
Season:	11
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Takeo Ohno
Storyboard:	Yasumi Mikamoto
Episode director:	Hideki Hiroshima
Animation director:	Masayuki
Music
Opening song:	Kaze no lalala
Closing song:	Ashita o Yume Mite

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Jiro Kuroki calls Kogoro to help his artist sensei, Shizusan Hayakawa's, depression due to the fact he is unable to draw anymore due to his age. During a fishing trip, Hayakawa's maid finds that he had hanged himself on bamboo.

Murder

Victim: Seizan Hayakawa

Cause of death: Hanging

People

Jiro Kuroki
	28 years old Seizan's apprentice

Seizan Hayakawa
	Victim (hanged) 70 years old Japanese artist

Noriko Yamamoto
	35 years old Hayakawa family maid

Keiichi Yamamoto
	Noriko Yamamoto's son

Officer Daimatsu
	Policeman from the precinct

Resolution

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After at through investigation, Conan tranquilizes Kogoro to reveal that Kuroki murdered Haykawa. Conan reveals that he drugged Hayakawa with sleeping pills and bought him to the bamboo forest where he tied a noose around his sensei's neck. Kuroki then cut down the bamboo around the vicinity to allow the bamboo with the noose to gain more sunlight and grow exponentially allowing it to hang his master. Kuroki confesses and reveals he wanted to sell the paintings he painted under his own name but his sensei refused it.

Gallery

See also

• Season 11