Galileo (Japanese TV series)
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Galileo (ガリレオ, Garireo) is a Japanese television drama based on the Detective Galileo (探偵ガリレオ, Tantei Garireo) novels 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. A special episode titled "Galileo Episode 0", set 3 years before the television series, aired on October 4, 2008, on the same day as the release of the film Suspect X.
Galileo | |
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Genre | Mystery |
Starring | Masaharu Fukuyama Ko Shibasaki 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 | Yugo Kanno |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language | Japanese |
No. of episodes | 21 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Hiroshi Nishitani Takeshi Narita Kensaku Sawada Mizuki Nishisaka |
Producers | Yoshihiro Suzuki Tadashi Makino Hiroyuki Kikuchi |
Production location | Tokyo |
Running time | 60 minutes per episode |
Production company | Fuji TV Drama Production Center |
Original release | |
Network | Fuji TV |
Release | October 15, 2007 (2007-10-15) – June 17, 2013 (2013-06-17) |
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), premiered in both Japan and Hong Kong on June 29, 2013.