Galileo (Japanese TV series)

Galileo
GenreMystery
StarringMasaharu Fukuyama
Ko Shibasaki
Yuriko Yoshitaka
Theme music composerMasaharu Fukuyama
Opening themevs. ~Chikaku to Kairaku no Rasen~ (season 1)
vs.2013 ~Chikaku to Kairaku no Rasen~ (season 2)
Ending themeKISS Shite (KOH+, season 1)
Koi no Maryoku (KOH+, season 2)
ComposerYugo Kanno
Country of originJapan
Original languageJapanese
No. of episodes21
Production
Executive producersHiroshi Nishitani
Takeshi Narita
Kensaku Sawada
Mizuki Nishisaka
ProducersYoshihiro Suzuki
Tadashi Makino
Hiroyuki Kikuchi
Production locationTokyo
Running time60 minutes per episode
Production companyFuji TV Drama Production Center
Original release
NetworkFuji TV
ReleaseOctober 15, 2007 (2007-10-15) –
June 17, 2013 (2013-06-17)
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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.

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.