History Recap / TheKindaichiCaseFilesPhantomOfTheSilverScreen

* TragicDream: The culprit's late brother dreamed of becoming a action movie star. As the culprit confesses late in the case arc, he used to train in the gym and take acting lessons, and the independent film he was to join would have been another step on his way to stardom, but the filming sequence that went horribly wrong ensures that this dream of his will never come true.

* TragicDream: The culprit's late brother dreamed of becoming a action movie star. As the culprit confesses late in the case arc, he used to train in the gym and take acting lessons, and the independent film he was to join would be another step on his way to stardom, but the filming sequence that went horribly wrong ensures that this dream of his will never come true.

* {{Unperson}}: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The culprit's brother was supposed to be in an action film the Movie Research Club made, but not even his name was shown anywhere in the credits, much less his physical appearance. While there's no inherent taboo against speaking about him or the movie that was supposed to include him, the director makes it clear he wants to sweep the whole affair about the guy or the movie under the rug and the other Club members who are in the know prefer not to stir the pot. This is part of the fuel that drove the culprit into murder.

* {{Unperson}}: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The culprit's brother was supposed to be in an action film the Movie Research Club made, but not even his name was shown anywhere in the credits, much less his physical appearance. While there's no inherent taboo against speaking about him or the movie that was supposed to include him, the director makes it clear he wants to sweep the whole affair about the guy or the movie under the rug. This is part of the fuel that drove the culprit into murder.

After Kindaichi, Miyuki, Saki, and Fumi finishing watching a romantic movie starring Reika, a fellow Fudou High School student, who's an aspiring movie director, spots Miyuki and requests for her to be the lead actress in a new film he's making. Miyuki agrees to the request, and so Kindaichi, with Saki and Fumi in tow, joins Miyuki and meets the members of the Movie Research Club for the film-making project, all while a serial murder case is also in development.

* {{Unperson}}: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The culprit's brother was supposed to be in an action film the Movie Research Club made, but not even his name was shown anywhere in the credits, much less his physical appearance. While there's no inherent taboo against speaking about him or the movie that was supposed to include him, the director makes it clear he wants to sweep the whole affair about him or the movie under the rug. This is part of the fuel that drove the culprit into murder.

* DevelopmentHell: InUniverse. The film project that's supposed to star Miyuki gets derailed because of the serial murder case, and there's no sign of the film ever finishing due to most of the major contributor to the film, including the director, the cameraman, and the script-writer, falling victim to the murder case.

* {{Unperson}}: The culprit's brother was supposed to be in an action film the Movie Research Club made, but not even his name was shown anywhere in the credits, much less his physical appearance. This is part of the fuel that drove the culprit into murder.

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The director is killed by a slow-acting poison right around the same time [[SlippingAMickey everyone else except the culprit passes out from the Valium that is found on the paper cups people drink out of at the time]].

* 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 clubroom, 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.

* 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 in a 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.

* 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 in a 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.

* SlippingAMickey: As Kindaichi breaks down on the inconsistencies he discovers regarding the director's previous film to all who are present, everyone suddenly starts passing out. Late in TheSummation, Kindaichi deduces that the culprit had secretly laced the paper cups everyone drinks from with sleeping drought except for the one the culprit takes to not only kill the cameraman but also set up the scene that would create a locked-room mystery in an attempt to have the director pinned as the doer.

* ShipperOnDeck: Possibly. Fumi asks the record-keeper at one point whether she might be in love with the director, resulting in the record-keeper [[LuminescentBlush looking nervous and red in the face]], so there is some potential validity in Fumi's question, at least toward the record-keeper. That being said, nothing comes of it, as the director gives no hint of harboring romantic feeling for ''anyone'' and ends up as the final victim in this case anyway.

* SeriousBusiness: The cameraman of the Movie Research Club treats filming with his trusted 8mm camera with pride, resulting in him dismissing Saki's video camera and Saki dismissing his 8mm type in return. The two end up arguing against each other as the result before another club member stops them.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: After watching the movie at the start of the case arc, Reika meets Hajime, Miyuki, Saki, and Fumi and tearfully confesses to them that she didn't give them the tickets for that film because she didn't want to give them the wrong idea about her romantic aspects.

After Kindaichi, Miyuki, Saki, and Fumi finishing watching a romantic movie starring Reika, a fellow Fudou High School student, who's an aspiring movie director, spots Miyuki and requests for her to be the lead actress in a new film he's making. Miyuki agrees to the request, and so Kindaichi, with Saki and Fumi in tow, joins Miyuki for the film-making project, all while a serial murder case is also in development.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: After watching the movie at the start of the case arc, Reika meets Hajime, Miyuki, Saki, and Fumi and tearfully confesses to them that she didn't give them the tickets for that film because she didn't want to give them the wrong idea about her romantic aspects.

* ImagineSpot: Upon seeing the part in the movie starring Reika where she and the lead actor share a kiss, Kindaichi has a daydream in which she falls in love with the lead actor and leaves him behind.