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Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno Film's Philippine Opening Delayed to July 30 (Updated)
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Philippine cinema chain SM Cinema began streaming an English-subtitled trailer for the Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno film on its Facebook page on Friday revealing that its opening date has been pushed back to July 30.
The 90's "kids" will definitely be hyped for the coming of DETECTIVE CONAN: THE SUNFLOWERS OF INFERNO!Witness Conan's adventures in big screen this coming July 30!#SMCinema #DETECTIVECONAN
Posted by SM Cinema on Thursday, July 23, 2015
SM Cinema has already delayed the film's original July 22 premiere date once to July 29, citing that the delay was due to Singaporean anime licensing company Odex not providing the film materials on time.
SM Cinema describes the film:
Conan tries to track down Kaito Kid, who supposedly stole a replica of one of Van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings during an auction in "Detective Conan: The Sunflowers of Inferno."
The film premiered in Japan on April 18. The film will also premiere in Indonesia at an as-yet unannounced date, and it premiered in Singapore on Monday.
The film's story centers on Conan as he tries to track down Kaito Kid, who supposedly steals a replica of one of Van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings during an auction. (A real version of the painting depicted was owned by a Japanese collector, until it was destroyed during World War II. A version of the painting depicted in the movie was recently recreated.)
Kobun Shizuno returned to direct the film, and Takeharu Sakurai wrote the script. Katsuo Ono again composed the music. Minami Takayama reprised her role as Conan Edogawa with Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mōri, Rikiya Koyama as Kogorō Mōri, and Kappei Yamaguchi as Kaito Kuroba/Kaitō Kid.
The rock band Porno Graffitti contributed their song "Oh! Rival" as the theme song to the movie. The band created the new song specifically for the film. The "rival" in the title is in the French or Spanish pronunciation of the term, and it signifies the contentious relationship between the titular detective lead Conan Edogawa and the phantom thief Kaitō Kid. Film distributor TOHO previously streamed a trailer for the film in March that features the song.
The 18th Detective Conan film opened in April of last year, and the 20th anniversary special premiered on December 26. A new anime series based on Gōshō Aoyama's Magic Kaito manga began airing in October.
