A deceased man's body is found, beaten and burned beyond recognition. Local detective Kaoru Utsumi and her former colleague Shunpei Kusanagi are assigned to the case. As it turns out, the deceased is a high school math teacher, and neighbor to physicist Manabu Yukawa known as "Detective Galileo." Yukawa is drawn to the case, feeling the math teacher as an intellectual equal, and begins to help wade through the misdirections and false testimonials that surround the incident.
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by Hiroshi Nishitani Writing credits Keigo Higashino, Yasushi Fukuda Produced by Chihiro Kameyama Music by Yugo Kanno, Masaharu Fukuyama Cinematography by Hideo Yamamoto Film Editing by Masaaki Yamamoto Production Design by Kyoko Heya Assistant Director Junya Ikegami