| Suspect X | |
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| Directed by | Hiroshi Nishitani |
| Written by | Novel: Keigo Higashino Screenplay: Yasushi Fukuda |
| Starring | Masaharu Fukuyama Kou Shibasaki Shinichi Tsutsumi Yasuko Matsuyuki |
| Music by | Kanno Yugo Masaharu Fukuyama |
| Distributed by | Toho |
| Release date(s) | October 4, 2008 December 24, 2008 February 26, 2009 April 9, 2009 |
| Running time | 128 min. |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Suspect X (容疑者Xの献身 yōgisha x no kenshin) is a 2008 Japanese mystery-thriller film based on the novel of the same name, directed by Hiroshi Nishitani. The film was a continuation of the popular Japanese serial drama Galileo and included the same cast. It topped Japan's box office for four consecutive weeks and was the third-highest grossing Japanese movie in 2008.
The soundtrack was released on October 1, 2008.
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A murder case has occurred and the police are unable to find loopholes in the alibi of the main suspect, Ms Yasuko Hanaoka, thus creating obstacles in the investigation. Detective Kaoru Utsumi again sought the help of professor Manabu Yukawa who, seeing the case has nothing to do with physics, initially refuses to help. However, after a happy reunion with his genius classmate, Tetsuya Ishigami, for whom he has high admiration and who is also the neighbor of the main suspect, he senses that Ishigami is in love with Hanaoka and decides to investigate the case on his own. He succeeds in cracking the case only to reveal a sad and shocking truth that will do no good to all parties save the police. Despite having a reputation of being emotionless when solving cases, this time Yukawa is much affected by the outcome.
The film stays true to the book.
The film is not well known to the rest of the world, although it attracted much attention in Japan. It is not reviewed by any prominent English websites, but it was generally well-received by both the audiences and the critics in the countries in which it has been shown.