Tenkaichi Night Festival Murder Case

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Episode 9
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Information

Title:

Tenkaichi Night Festival Murder Case

Japanese title:

天下一夜祭殺人事件
(Tenkaichi Yomatsuri Satsujin Jiken)

Original airdate:

March 4, 1996

Season:

1

Manga source:

Volume 6: File 9 (059-060) ~
Volume 7: File 1 (061)

English version

English title:

Festival Fiasco

English airdate:

June 7, 2004

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Kogoro Mouri
Ran Mouri
Sango Yokomizo

Case solved by:

Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Sango Yokomizo

Next Conan's Hint:

Video game

Staff

Director:

Kenji Kodama

Screenplay:

Kazunari Kouchi

Storyboard:

Masato Sato

Episode director:

Masato Sato

Animation director:

Akio Kawamura

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri
Akio Otsuka as Sango Yokomizo
Takeshi Aono as Norikazu Sasai
Yu Shimaka as Satoru Imatake
Kiyonobu Suzuki as Yamada
Wataru Takagi as Middle aged man, Next Conan's Hint
Isshin Chiba as Male announcer
Konami Yoshida as Female announcer

Music

Opening song:

"Mune ga Dokidoki"

Closing song:

"STEP BY STEP"

Characters introduced

Sango Yokomizo
	Inspector from Shizuoka Police District

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

In the night of the Tenkaichi Festival at the hotel, the author named Satoru Imatake is brushing his teeth in the bathroom and and his friend named Norikazu Sasai is making a mess. When he checked what Sasai's doing, he's confused that Sasai dressed up weird and saw that the hotel room was a big mess. Sasai raises his gun to aim at Imatake's forehead and fired. He also took the rest of the money from his wallet.

Robbery - Murder

Location: Hotel room

Victim: Satoru Imatake

Cause of death: Gunshot wound

Suspects: Norikazu Sasai

The award-winning author, Satoru Imatake, was killed in his hotel room on the night of the Tenkaichi Festival. A man was seen fleeing the scene of shooting.

People

Satoru Imatake
	Victim (gunshot) Author/Novelist

Norikazu Sasai
	Author Imatake's friend

Yamada
	Representative from Imatake's Publisher

Resolution

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• Evidence
  • Satoru Imatake's murderer was his long-time friend and colleague, Norikazu Sasai. He shot the unsuspecting victim point-blank and left the scene immediately after.
  • Imatake was found dead with traces of toothpaste on his mouth and a toothbrush lying on the ground near him. His wallet was empty and the room was ransacked.
  • Sasai was the primary suspect, but he had an alibi. In his disposable camera, there were pictures of him at the festival; and the festival events coincided with the time the killing took place.

• Conclusion

Conan, aiding Inspector Yokomizo through Kogoro Mouri, proved that it wasn't just a simple case of robbery and that Sasai was indeed the killer.

Imatake was murdered while brushing his teeth, an act done without inhibitions in front of people whom a person is very familiar with. The bad condition of the room was evidence enough that the robbery was a setup, for the killer fled the scene right away after the gun was fired. And the pictures that were seemingly taken that night proving Sasai's innocence were actually taken from the past Tenkaichi festival. In the picture, his wrist was captured without its current watch tan line.

• Motive

Over a year ago, Sasai felt ridiculed when the more well-known writer Imatake's work was chosen to be published over his at the last minute. Imatake apparently became famous when he won an award for a book that they co-wrote, while Sasai wasn't credited for it.

Sasai planned the murder, so that he could take Imatake's place as top writer in the literary world.

See also

• Season 1