How to watch the GALILEO films in order
There are 6 GALILEO films, about 7.8 hours in total. The first was released in 2008, the latest in 2022. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
- 1
Suspect X (2008)
4 Oct 2008
A male corpse is discovered with a smashed face and burned hands. Strangely, the cause of death is determined to be strangulation. When Detective Kaoru Utsumi attempts to corroborate the victim’s ex-wife’s alibi she discovers the mysterious neighbor and only a few small clues to help her disprove a seemingly "airtight" alibi...
- 2
Galileo Zero (2008)
8 Oct 2008 · 102 min
The special is set 3 years prior to the drama series, with the story being related to a murder case that was partly referenced in the original show. Detective Kusanagi is looking to solve a murder mystery, and he gets back in touch with his former badminton teammate, the brilliant professor Yukawa Manabu.
- 3
Galileo XX (2013)
22 Jun 2013
A spin-off from popular Japanese TV series "Galileo". Episode XX tells the story of female detective Utsumi Kaoru's final case before she went to Oklahoma for further training.
- 4
Midsummer's Equation (2013)
28 Jun 2013 · 129 min
Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an oceanside town to speak on a panel. But when a man turns up dead outside the inn where he's staying, Yukawa begins to unravel the connections that tie the victim to the activist daughter of the innkeepers, and a precocious boy who first appears on a tra
- 5
Silent Parade (2022)
16 Sep 2022 · 130 min
Physicist Manabu Yukawa returns to Japan from America. Detective Kaoru Utsumi visits him and talks about a case. The case is about a popular girl in a town who disappeared and, several years later, her body was found. A suspect was arrested for her murder. That suspect was previously arrested for another girl's murder, but he was released due to a lack of evidence. Detective Shunpei Kusanagi inves
- 6
Galileo: Forbidden Sorcery (2022)
17 Sep 2022 · 106 min
Four years before Silent Parade (2022), Yukawa and Kusanagi investigate the murder of a writer after a video found in his possession piques Yukawa's interest.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.