Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Collaborating with “Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno” Movie Production

Tokyo, Japan, January 20, 2015 --(PR.com)-- Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc. and Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Fine Art Foundation are collaborating with the movie production of “Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno” scheduled to debut in the spring of 2015.

The movie is an art-related mystery centering on the seven “Sunflowers” masterpieces by Vincent van Gogh. Sompo Japan Nipponkoa and Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Fine Art Foundation are providing details about Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” and Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art on the 42nd floor of the Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Headquarters in Tokyo will feature as a setting for the movie.

Production Data
・Title Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno
・Release date Saturday, April 18, 2015
・Produced by Shogakukan, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, TOHO, TMS Entertainment
・Collaboration Sompo Japan Nipponkoa, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Fine Art Foundation
・Director Kobun Shizuno
・Screenplay Takeharu Sakurai
・Music Katsuo Ono

Official Detective Conan movie website http://www.conan-movie.jp

“Sunflowers” by Vincent van Gogh

“Sunflowers” is one of seven oil paintings of bouquets of sunflowers in a vase painted in Arles in southern France by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890).

The only of the series that exists in Japan, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa exhibits the masterpiece at Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art.
Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art website
http://www.sjnk-museum.org/en