History Recap / TheKindaichiCaseFilesPhantomOfTheSilverScreen

* ChromosomeCasting: InUniverse. Based on the sequences being shown, the film that the culprit's brother was involved with had only male characters.

** Another example actually happens in this sequence - when Kindaichi sends Miyuki to call for everyone to the club room, Miyuki accidentally tips over a table with a stack of film containers, and in their haste to get the room ready for Kindaichi's experiment to show what happened during the filming of "The Fugitive", he and Saki end up stuffing the film reels haphazardly into the containers regardless of the label. This ends up helping Kindaichi figure out the killer's trick, as a result of this mishap is that the killer's reel, which was supposed to be a 'suicide note' implicating the final victim for the crimes using the unreleased horror film the club had made previously, ends up abruptly switching into a comedic medieval swordfight scene midway.

* AccidentalMurder: In the backstory, the culprit's brother was to participate in an action film made by members of the Movie Research Club, which included a scene that would involve '''jumping from a 12-floor tall building to another one''', as the culprit finds out while reading the script before the culprit's brother was about to head out. The culprit tried desperately to find their brother after he went missing from the film-shooting, but it took a while before finding a lead in a movie being showcased that had the scene of building-jumping that the culprit saw in the script. The absence of the culprit's brother throughout the film caused the culprit to visit the club-room in secret to find out more, and it's there that the culprit overheard an AwfulTruth: The film production crew had placed a mattress on the ground in case the culprit's brother didn't make it through the jump, but the mattress got moved away without his knowledge for the sake of filming angle and his jump met a strong gust of head-wind that caused him to fall to his doom. The film was then redone with a replacement actor, who would be among the victims in this serial murder case, [[{{Unperson}} without acknowledging the contribution by the culprit's brother at all]], whose corpse was also hidden away. It's at this point the culprit decided to murder everyone who had a hand in the production of the film he was supposed to be in in the first place.

* SpannerInTheWorks: When Kindaichi is about to conduct SummationGathering (for the first time, as it turns out, since this is before the director and the cameraman fall victim to the culprit) and sends Miyuki to gather everyone into the club-room, Kenmochi and a fellow inspector are among the people Miyuki gathers. In the second SummationGathering, Kindaichi explains that the presence of the two inspectors, Kenmochi being one of them, [[DownplayedTrope complicates the culprit's plan]] of SlippingAMickey on everyone except the director, who would die from [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink the poison in his own personal mug]] and the culprit, but the culprit nonetheless manages to overcome this slight hurdle by [[SlippingAMickey fetching two additional unused and clean paper cups and adding Valium to them before placing them into the bag containing the cups]]. This allows the culprit to carry on the rest of the murder plot unabated, though it causes a slight incongruence that tips Kindaichi off after the fact.