Title: 容疑者Ｘの献身 Yōgisha X no Kenshin
English Title: Suspect X
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Year: 2008
Cast:
- 福山雅治 Fukuyama Masaharu
- 北村一輝 Kitamura Kazuki
- 柴咲コウ Shibasaki Kō
- 堤真一 Tsutsumi Shinichi
- 松雪泰子 Matsuyuki Yasuko
- 渡辺いっけい Watanabe Ikkei
- 真矢みき Maya Miki
- 品川祐 Shinagawa Hiroshi
SYNOPSIS
Detective Utsumi Kaoru from the local police precinct and detective Kusanagi Shunpei from the police headquarters are assigned on the case of a murdered man found naked and without any form of identification.
Kaoru suspects that the victim's ex-wife is the suspect in the case but the wife has a solid alibi. Shunpei and Kaoru then approach physicist professor Yukawa Manabu, also known as Galileo, to help them solve the case.
Galileo is disinterested to take the case but his curiosity is piqued when Shunpei tells him that the ex-wife is a total beauty. He takes personal interest in the case when he finds out that the ex-wife's neighbor is his friend from college, one who he describes as a genius.
REVIEW
Galileo is an interesting production because it uses science, particularly physics, to explain how crimes happen. Brilliant physicist Yukawa Manabu, also known as Galileo, helps detectives by coming up with ideas on how a crime may have occurred and then conducting experiments to prove the hypotheses.
Galileo is such a strange fellow. Other people catch his attention when they say, "it is impossible (for such an incident to occur)" and he always responds, "every phenomenon has a cause". He always says "amusing" if he gets any new information, particularly if he finds said information interesting, and when someone asks him a question that he cannot answer, he laughs maniacally while saying, "I absolutely have no idea."
I suppose I should be used to it considering that I have watched several Galileo productions already, but it still bothers me that Galileo is the one solving the cases and the detectives are just relying on him to do so.
Utsumi Kaoru suspects the victim's ex-wife based on her so-called detective instinct but she doesn't have any evidence to support her suspicions. She's really fortunate to have Galileo to help her figure out things, or else she wouldn't be able to solve the cases assigned to her.
I like how the movie presents mathematics and logic. Logical thinking requires careful analysis, and in this particular case, it is very important to determine which facts are important and which facts aren't necessary to the case.
Utsumi Kaoru: The questions you make must be difficult.
Ishigami Tetsuya: No, I don't make a difficult exam. I just make a test full of simple trick questions.
Kusanagi Shunpei: Trick questions?
Ishigami Tetsuya: For example, a quadratic problem disguised in a geometry question. It's possible to solve it if you just change your perspective.
In Yōgisha X no Kenshin, there is someone who covered a crime for the person he loves. He went to great lengths in order to do so, and he even willingly assumed responsibility for his loved one's actions.
Consequently, the movie got me thinking if I can really do anything for the ones I love. I mean, I'd definitely try to help my loved ones as much as I possibly can and I'll probably try to spare them any pain if I could, but how far can I go? Would I be willing to cover up their wrongdoings? Would I be willing to take the fall for their mistakes?
Related:
ガリレオ Galileo
ガリレオΦ Galileo 0 (Galileo Episode 0)
ガリレオ (第2期) Galileo 2
ガリレオXX Galileo XX
真夏の方程式 Manatsu no Hōteishiki
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容疑者Ｘの献身 Yōgisha X no Kenshin
