A Record-Breaking Film Hits the Small Screen
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway, the franchise's 29th theatrical outing produced at TMS Entertainment (Detective Conan, Lupin III), has been dominating Japanese cinemas since its April 10 premiere. Now Oricon News reports that tonight's Friday Road Show on Nippon TV will air the film's first 12 minutes completely uncut — the first time any footage from the movie has been shown on television.
The preview will roll immediately after Friday Road Show's broadcast of Minions: The Rise of Gru, giving viewers a straight shot from Illumination slapstick into high-octane motorcycle chases through Yokohama.
What Fallen Angel of the Highway Is About
Directed by Takahiro Hasui with a screenplay by Takahiro Okura, the film is set across Yokohama's Minato Mirai district and the Hakone area in Kanagawa Prefecture. Conan and the Kanagawa Prefectural Police — including Inspector Jūgo Yokomizo — take center stage as chaos erupts at the Kanagawa Motorcycle Festival.
While Conan and company are visiting the festival, a mysterious rampaging "black motorcycle" appears out of nowhere. In pursuit is Chihaya Hagiwara, a Kanagawa traffic police motorcycle officer whom Ran once witnessed and dubbed the "Wind Goddess." The festival is also hosting the unveiling of "Angel," a cutting-edge police motorcycle loaded with new technology — but meanwhile, the black bike, codenamed "Lucifer," goes berserk again in Tokyo. What follows is what the film bills as a "Limit Break" battle mystery: Wind Goddess (Angel) versus Dark Fallen Angel (Lucifer).
Guest voice cast includes live-action actor Ryūsei Yokohama as engineer Ōmae Akigyō and Mei Hata as Kanagawa police officer Tateoki Minato. The theme song is performed by MISIA.
Already a Box-Office Juggernaut
The film set a new franchise opening record with 2.31 million admissions and ¥3.5 billion (approx. $22 million) in its first three days. By late April it had crossed ¥10.88 billion (approx. $69 million), making it the fourth Conan film to break the ¥10 billion barrier — joining Black Iron Submarine, The Million-dollar Pentagram, and One-eyed Flashback. It's still in theaters and climbing toward the franchise record of ¥15.8 billion set by The Million-dollar Pentagram in 2024.
Tonight's 12-minute TV debut is a classic Conan movie marketing play: give audiences just enough of the opening's adrenaline rush to drive another wave of ticket sales heading into the summer stretch.
Looking Ahead
Fallen Angel of the Highway continues its theatrical run across Japan with no signs of slowing down. For international fans, no streaming or overseas theatrical distribution has been announced yet — though previous Conan films have eventually landed on platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video in select regions. The source manga by Gōshō Aoyama is published by Shogakukan and remains one of the longest-running detective series in manga history.
Tonight's Friday Road Show airs on Nippon TV. Japanese viewers can catch the 12-minute preview right after Minions: The Rise of Gru wraps up.