Suspect X

Suspect X
DVD cover (Hong Kong release)
Directed byHiroshi Nishitani
Screenplay byYasushi Fukuda
Based onThe Devotion of Suspect X
by Keigo Higashino
Produced byTadashi Makino
Kazutoshi Wadakura
StarringMasaharu Fukuyama
Kou Shibasaki
Yasuko Matsuyuki
Shinichi Tsutsumi
Music byYugo Kanno
Masaharu Fukuyama
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • October 4, 2008 (2008-10-04)
Running time
128 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$54,826,455

Suspect X (容疑者Xの献身, Yōgisha Ekkusu no Kenshin) is a 2008 Japanese mystery-thriller film based on the novel, The Devotion of Suspect X, 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. Suspect X was the first of several film adaptations of The Devotion of Suspect X, followed by Perfect Number (2012) from South Korea and Kolaigaran (2019) and Jaane Jaan (2023) from India.