First teaser for ‘Yougisha X no Kenshin’

The first teaser for Hiroshi Nishitani’s Yougisha X no Kenshin came out today and its official website was updated with more info. The story begins when a corpse is discovered with a smashed face and burned hands. Strangely, the cause of death is determined to be strangulation. When Detective Kaoru Utsumi (Kou Shibasaki) attempts to corroborate his ex-wife’s alibi she discovers the woman’s neighbor, a high school math teacher named Tetsuya Ishigami (Shinichi Tsutsumi), went to Teito University—the same school as genius physicist Manabu Yukawa, aka “Galileo” (Masaharu Fukuyama). She consults with Yukawa and he tells her that as far as he knows Ishigami is a true genius. Utsumi and Yukawa team up with only a few small clues and the victim’s personal effects to help them disprove a seemingly airtight alibi and figure out Ishigami’s role in all of it. Thus begins a battle of wits between geniuses.

Oddly enough, actor Shiro Sano‘s “smart guy” image was author Keigo Higashino’s original inspiration for the Manabu Yukawa character when he first wrote the award-winning novel on which this film is based. I wonder if he was too busy to take on the live-action role. Is it possible to be too geeky-looking to play a genius physicist?

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Tags: genius, kazuki kitamura, kou shibasaki, masaharu fukuyama, miho kanazawa, shinichi tsutsumi, yasuko matsuyuki, yougisha x no kenshin