A Small Client

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Episode 354-355
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Information
Title: A Small Client
Japanese title: 小さな依頼者
(Chiisana Iraisha)
Original airdate: March 8, 2004 (Part 1)
March 15, 2004 (Part 2)
Season: 13
Manga source: Volume 39: Files 9-11 (401-403)
Case
Cast: Conan Edogawa
Ran Mouri
Kogoro Mouri
Eri Kisaki
Sango Yokomizo
Case solved by: Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint: Video tapes (Part 1)
Wind (Part 2)
Staff
Director: Masato Sato
Organizer: Hideaki Oniwa
Storyboard: Hideaki Oniwa
Episode director: Hideaki Oniwa
Animation Director: Katsunori Enokimoto
Music
Opening song: Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made
Closing song: Nemuru Kimi no Yokogao ni Hohoemi o
Chronology
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List of episodes


Cast

Gadgets

Case

Situation

Part 1

A seven year old movie star by the name of Kazuki Kinukawa comes to the Mouri Detective Agency to try and find his mother who abandoned him at a church. His reasons are to tell his mother he will not give her any money now that he is famous. Conan is able to deduce Kazuki's mother is a hotel employee in Atami due to the old dirty postcards she sent him. Kazuki reveals that he remembered that his mother had a beauty mark near her breast. A freelance writer named Yasuhiro Kamoshita checks into the hotel as he plans to find Kazuki's mother and interview her to confirm whether Kazuki's father was truly a murderer. Later that day, Kamoshita is strangled to death but managed to take a picture on his cellphone during the attack.

Murder

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Location: Japanese-style inn in Atami
Victim: Yasuhiro Kamoshita
Time: Around 11:48 PM
Cause of death: Strangulation
Suspects: Mitsu Kusano, Toshiko Bessho, and Tomoka Saegusa
Yasuhiro was first bludgeoned with a shower head before he was strangled with a kite-string-like thread.

The picture reveals that a woman with a beauty mark near her breast is the murderer. The police gather three female employees with no alibi during the time of the murder; Each of them has a beauty mark but none of them are near the breast.

Part 2

The forensic team reveals that Kamoshita was knocked on the head with a shower nozzle knocking him unconscious and was later strangled. While the police are watching a videotape found in Kamoshita's room, Conan notices that the movie ended one minute earlier than the time indicated on the box and realizes how the murder is done.

People

  • Resolution

    Manga to anime changes

    • The anime added an extra scene that Kazuki bumped into Saegusa which she helped him and Kazuki noticed a mole on the back of her neck.
    • The female criminal's entire figure is obscured unlike in manga which the female criminal's figure is naked and only her face is obscured.
    • In the anime, Conan simply hides under Kogoro's outer shirt while in the manga he hides in Kogoro's yukata.

    Gallery

    See also