MrDetective wrote:so....what's so special about this 'special'?
Its an hour and 30 mins with out commercials.
Basically there was a movie in 2012 called Kagi Dorobo no Method (The Key Thief's Method) (Eng title: Key of Life) that was written by Uchida Kenji. It was about a hitman (Kondou), a suicidal actor, and a woman looking to get married that all end up getting involved with each other after the hitman slips on a bar of soap in a bath house and hits his head and looses his memory. The movie is a more of a comedy.
The Conan special picks up about one year after the events of that movie, but you really don't need to see that movie to understand the special as they are completely different stories. Conan encounters a man in the same bath house that is accessing a locker, observing from a chair in the back ground is the same hitman (Kondou) from the above movie. Conan then slips and hits his head and events unfold from there. A lot of the locations from the special are carry overs from the movie. There is a direct flashback from the movie, but you don't need to see the movie to understand. The special was written in collaboration between Gosho and Uchida Kenji.
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Since the trailer was quite lame I was surprised by how good the special was. It's not as good as movie 18 wich I greatly enjoyed, but it was good nontheless. It was more entertaining than movie 17 or movie 16.
I just didn't understand something: who were the two men in the beggining of the special? We don't see them again in the special.
@Startold: you mean the delivery man and the policeman? The delivery man shows up again in Kondou's flashback and I think the policeman shows up again towards the end of the special.
@Startlord: ah, true! I'd forgotten. It's safe to assume they're the ones they wanted to hire Kondou to do that assassination. Maybe they were some Mafia or something like that.
I thought it was pretty good and it confirms two things which would be positive changes for the movies :
-less dumb action : this one basically had a nice car chase, some gun shooting here and there and that's it.
-shorter : they need to be brought back to the length of the first 5, around 1h30.
I hope they end up making yearly tv specials one day, like they do with Lupin III.
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If such an entity really existed, wouldn't all honest, hard-working people be happy?"
Startold wrote:No, I mean the two men who were playing golf. We don't get to see them again.
Spimer wrote:@Startlord: ah, true! I'd forgotten. It's safe to assume they're the ones they wanted to hire Kondou to do that assassination. Maybe they were some Mafia or something like that.
Its also possible that the one in the hat is the man from the movie (Kaigi Dorobo), Mr Iwaki, that Kondou made disappear for money.
He said that the he was off playing golf in Okinawa.
I hope that I can find someway to contribute to the community even if it's just random crack theories and looking things up for people who can't find the information they need.
@jimmy_kud0_tv2: highly unlikely. Through the Japanese subtitutles it's clear that they talk about hiring Kondou for something and that surely is the assassination plot. They call him "legendary assassin", too.
Wakarimashita wrote:I thought it was pretty good and it confirms two things which would be positive changes for the movies :
-less dumb action : this one basically had a nice car chase, some gun shooting here and there and that's it.
-shorter : they need to be brought back to the length of the first 5, around 1h30.
I hope they end up making yearly tv specials one day, like they do with Lupin III.
This would be really good. Less over the top action and no bombs. The pacing was great and I liked the plot. For me it was a better "movie" than some of the real movies.^^
Furthermore +1 for showing Rans boobs
