# Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street
**Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street** (*Meitantei Konan: Beikā Sutorīto no Bōrei*; 名探偵コナン ベイカー街（ストリート）の亡霊) is a 2002 Japanese animated mystery film, the sixth theatrical feature in the Detective Conan franchise based on Gosho Aoyama's manga. Directed by Kenji Kodama and written by the mystery novelist Hisashi Nozawa, it was released in Japan on April 20, 2002, runs 107 minutes, and was distributed by Toho.[1](https://www.tms-e.co.jp/alltitles/conan/087306.html) • [2](https://eiga.com/movie/75999/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Position in series | 6th Detective Conan theatrical film, released between TV episodes 274 and 275[3](https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/The_Phantom_of_Baker_Street) |
| Release | April 20, 2002, Japan; 107 minutes; distributed by Toho[1](https://www.tms-e.co.jp/alltitles/conan/087306.html) |
| Director / writer | Kenji Kodama (director); Hisashi Nozawa, winner of the 43rd Edogawa Rampo Prize for *Hasen no Marisu* (screenplay)[2](https://eiga.com/movie/75999/) • [4](https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0000873) |
| Box office | About 3.4 billion yen, the ninth highest grossing film in the franchise and the first in the series to exceed 3 billion yen[3](https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/The_Phantom_of_Baker_Street) • [5](https://www.wowow.co.jp/detail/107874) |
| Premise | An artificial intelligence hijacks a virtual reality game and holds 50 children hostage until someone clears a stage set in 19th-century London against Jack the Ripper[2](https://eiga.com/movie/75999/) |
| Theme song | "Everlasting" by B'z (lyrics Koshi Inaba, music Tak Matsumoto)[1](https://www.tms-e.co.jp/alltitles/conan/087306.html) |
| Animation milestone | The last Detective Conan movie made with traditional (hand-drawn) animation[3](https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/The_Phantom_of_Baker_Street) |
## Spoilers
### Story
The film runs a double story, one in the real world and one inside a game.[3](https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/The_Phantom_of_Baker_Street) Two years before the events of the film, the ten-year-old genius Hiroki Sawada developed [Noah's Ark](https://www.edgepedia.org/noahs-ark), an artificial intelligence program that grows the equivalent of five years of human development in a single year, and then died in an unexplained suicide.[2](https://eiga.com/movie/75999/) • [1](https://www.tms-e.co.jp/alltitles/conan/087306.html) At Beika City Hall in Tokyo, a presentation is being held for Cocoon, a virtual reality simulation game, with children of figures from politics, business, and entertainment among the invited guests.[2](https://eiga.com/movie/75999/)
Shortly before the presentation, Cocoon's development chief Kashimura is murdered by Thomas Schindler, the IT magnate who funds the company. From the dying message Kashimura left, Conan Edogawa realizes the key to the mystery lies inside the game and enters Cocoon.[2](https://eiga.com/movie/75999/) Once inside, Noah's Ark, which has infiltrated the system, takes control of the game and holds the children hostage: unless at least one player clears the game, none of the 50 children will ever wake up.[1](https://www.tms-e.co.jp/alltitles/conan/087306.html) • [2](https://eiga.com/movie/75999/)
Conan chooses the stage called Old Time London, set in the London of a century earlier where [Sherlock Holmes](https://www.edgepedia.org/sherlock-holmes) was active, and pursues [Jack the Ripper](https://www.edgepedia.org/jack-the-ripper) through the recreated 19th-century [Baker Street](https://www.edgepedia.org/baker-street).[2](https://eiga.com/movie/75999/) • [5](https://www.wowow.co.jp/detail/107874) Because adults cannot enter the game, Conan and the Detective Boys face the mission on their own, and the film follows their decisions in a world without grown-ups.[6](https://www.rnb.co.jp/media/conan-beika/) Conan clears the game after hardship and rescues the children; Noah's Ark disappears at the same moment, and Conan's father Yusaku Kudo reveals that Schindler killed Kashimura to hide that he was a descendant of Jack the Ripper.[2](https://eiga.com/movie/75999/)
## Production
Kenji Kodama, director of the previous film *Countdown to Heaven*, directed, with Masatomo Sudo as character designer and chief animation director, Takashi Nomura, art direction by Yukihiro Shibuya, and music by Katsuo Ohno, the franchise's regular composer.[1](https://www.tms-e.co.jp/alltitles/conan/087306.html) • [7](https://anime.eiga.com/movie/113036/) The screenplay was written by Hisashi Nozawa, a screenwriter for television dramas and films who had won the 43rd Edogawa Rampo Prize for his novel *Hasen no Marisu*; this is the only Detective Conan movie he wrote.[2](https://eiga.com/movie/75999/) • [4](https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0000873) • [3](https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/The_Phantom_of_Baker_Street) [Animation](https://www.edgepedia.org/animation) production was by [TMS Entertainment](https://www.edgepedia.org/tms-entertainment) (Tokyo Movie), and the film was shot on 35 mm film in color at a 1.85:1 aspect ratio with Dolby SRD sound.[5](https://www.wowow.co.jp/detail/107874) • [8](https://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=32926)
The Japanese cast includes the series' regulars: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri, Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo, Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara, and [Hideyuki Tanaka](https://www.edgepedia.org/hideyuki-tanaka) as Yusaku Kudo. Ai Orikasa voiced Hiroki Sawada, with Masane Tsukayama as Thomas Schindler, Kiyoshi Kobayashi as Professor James Moriarty, Show Hayami as Jack the Ripper, and Sumi Shimamoto as [Irene Adler](https://www.edgepedia.org/irene-adler).[1](https://www.tms-e.co.jp/alltitles/conan/087306.html) • [7](https://anime.eiga.com/movie/113036/)
## Reception and box office
The film earned about 3.4 billion yen at the Japanese box office, making it the ninth highest grossing film in the franchise at the time of reporting, and WOWOW describes it as the first entry in the series to surpass 3 billion yen in ticket sales.[3](https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/The_Phantom_of_Baker_Street) • [5](https://www.wowow.co.jp/detail/107874) When it aired on Japanese television on April 7, 2003, it drew a household rating of 20.4 percent.[3](https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/The_Phantom_of_Baker_Street) On IMDb it holds a user rating of 7.8 from about 5,100 votes, and Rotten Tomatoes lists a 91 percent audience score.[9](https://www.justwatch.com/jp/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB/ming-tan-zhen-konan-beikajie-nowang-ling) • [10](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/meitantei-konan-beka-sutorito-no-borei-detective-conan-the-phantom-of-baker-street)
The film has remained a fan favorite in later rankings. A 2026 Filmarks-based ranking of all 29 Conan films placed it ninth overall by box office but noted that it was the only pre-2016 film to break into the top ten on the strength of a 4.0 user rating, against scores of 3.6 to 4.1 for the rest of the top ten.[11](https://selectra.jp/streaming/conan-movies-ranking) A separate six-criteria ranking placed it first overall among the series' films.[12](https://10i.jp/ranking/conan-movies-alltime/)
## English release and legacy
FUNimation released the film on DVD in North America on February 16, 2010, as *Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street*. It was the last [Case Closed](https://www.edgepedia.org/case-closed) media the company released: FUNimation stopped producing the anime's English dub in 2009 and the movies' dub in 2010 because of poor home video sales, and its license expired in 2018. English dubbing of the movies later resumed with Bang Zoom! Entertainment starting with *Zero the Enforcer*.[3](https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/The_Phantom_of_Baker_Street)
The film is also the last Detective Conan movie produced with traditional hand-drawn animation, marking the end of an era in the series' production methods.[3](https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/The_Phantom_of_Baker_Street) Its premise of an artificial intelligence testing the children who enter its game, and its themes of education and social selection, have been cited by Japanese reviewers as giving the film a social-science-fiction depth beyond a standard mystery entry.[6](https://www.rnb.co.jp/media/conan-beika/) A 4K digital remaster has aired on Japanese television on the Kids Station channel.[13](https://www.hikaritv-docomo.jp/sources/all/pdf/user/guide_htv_202412.pdf)
## References
1. [名探偵コナン ベイカー街（ストリート）の亡霊, TMS Entertainment official works list](https://www.tms-e.co.jp/alltitles/conan/087306.html)
2. [名探偵コナン ベイカー街の亡霊：作品情報・キャスト・あらすじ, 映画.com](https://eiga.com/movie/75999/)
3. [The Phantom of Baker Street, Detective Conan Wiki](https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/The_Phantom_of_Baker_Street)
4. [名探偵コナン ベイカー街（ストリート）の亡霊 (2002), シネマトゥデイ](https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0000873)
5. [劇場版「名探偵コナン ベイカー街(ストリート)の亡霊」, WOWOWオンライン](https://www.wowow.co.jp/detail/107874)
6. [映画「名探偵コナン ベイカー街（ストリート）の亡霊」配信まとめ, RNBエンタメディア](https://www.rnb.co.jp/media/conan-beika/)
7. [名探偵コナン ベイカー街の亡霊：作品情報, アニメハック](https://anime.eiga.com/movie/113036/)
8. [名探偵コナン ベイカー街の亡霊, KINENOTE](https://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=32926)
9. [名探偵コナン ベイカー街（ストリート）の亡霊 動画配信, JustWatch Japan](https://www.justwatch.com/jp/%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB/ming-tan-zhen-konan-beikajie-nowang-ling)
10. [Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/meitantei-konan-beka-sutorito-no-borei-detective-conan-the-phantom-of-baker-street)
11. [名探偵コナン映画人気ランキング全29作, Selectra](https://selectra.jp/streaming/conan-movies-ranking)
12. [劇場版『名探偵コナン』ランキング 全28作を6つの物差しで採点, 10i.jp](https://10i.jp/ranking/conan-movies-alltime/)
13. [ひかりTV for docomo 番組ガイド (2024年12月)](https://www.hikaritv-docomo.jp/sources/all/pdf/user/guide_htv_202412.pdf)
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