Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street
2002 anime film directed by Kenji Kodama
Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street, known as Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street (名探偵コナン ベイカー街(ストリート)の亡霊, Meitantei Konan: Beikā Sutorīto no Bōrei) in Japan, is the 2002 Japanese animated science fiction mystery film and the sixth Case Closed feature film, released in Japan on April 20, 2002. The Phantom of Baker Street is the first film in the series written by Hisashi Nozawa. This was the last of the Case Closed films done in cel animation. It was released on February 16, 2010, in the United States on DVD. This film brought 3.4 billion yen in the box office. The story features several characters from and references to the Sherlock Holmes series, which Detective Conan is heavily inspired by, and Jack the Ripper.
Plot
Child prodigy Hiroki Sawada — who, by the age of ten, is already a MIT grad student and has developed a DNA Tracker software—has been under the guardianship of Thomas Schindler, CEO of the software giant Schindler, Inc., since his parents have died. One night, in a heavily guarded room at the top of the Schindler building where Hiroki lives, he finishes an artificial intelligence system called Noah's Ark and sends the software through the telephone lines. The guards become suspicious when he does not respond. They bust open the door, but discover that Hiroki has disappeared, apparently having leapt off the building.
Two years later, Schindler, Inc.
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