Galileo | |
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Genre | Mystery |
Starring |
Kou Shibasaki Masaharu Fukuyama Yuriko Yoshitaka |
Theme music composer | Masaharu Fukuyama |
Opening theme | vs. ~Chikaku to Kairaku no Rasen~ (season 1) vs.2013 ~Chikaku to Kairaku no Rasen~ (season 2) |
Ending theme | KISS Shite (KOH+, season 1) Koi no Maryoku (KOH+, season 2) |
Composer(s) | Yugo Kanno |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language(s) | Japanese |
No. of episodes | 21 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Hiroshi Nishitani Takeshi Narita Kensaku Sawada Mizuki Nishisaka |
Producer(s) | Yoshihiro Suzuki Tadashi Makino Hiroyuki Kikuchi |
Location(s) | Tokyo |
Running time | 60 minutes per episode |
Production company(s) | Fuji TV Drama Production Center |
Distributor | Fuji TV |
Release | |
Original network | Fuji TV |
Picture format | ISDB 1080i60 |
Original release | October 15, 2007 – December 17, 2007 (season 1) April 15, 2013 – June 17, 2013 (season 2) |
External links | |
Website |
Galileo (ガリレオ Garireo?) is a Japanese television drama based on Detective Galileo (探偵ガリレオ Tantei Garireo?), a novel by mystery writer Keigo Higashino (東野 圭吾 Higashino Keigo?). It narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, as the two pair up to solve many mysterious cases. Galileo SP was aired on October 4, 2008 on the same day as the release of the film The Devotion of Suspect X.
A second series began airing on Fuji TV on April 15, 2013 and ended with an adaption of the novel Salvation of a Saint. The second movie, titled Midsummer's Equation (真夏の方程式 Manatsu no hōteishiki?, lit. The Equation of Midsummer), premiered in both Japan and Hong Kong on June 29, 2013.