Those who remain silent to uphold justice that the law cannot uphold
Their grand deception and the unexpected truth revealed
A mystery mille-feuille filled with layers of foreshadowing, twists, and human drama!

Cumulative series sales of 15 million copies
Movie box office revenue: 3,000,000,000 yen
Masaharu Fukuyama, who plays the lead role of Yugawa, won the 2022 Hochi Film Award for Best Actor.

The return of Persona Yugawa Manabu from the mystery king Keigo Higashino.
After solving the case in the previous work, 『Forbidden Magic』, he suddenly left for America. In this new work, 『Silent Parade』, he returns as 'Detective Galileo' and sets out to solve mysterious cases.


"Silent Parade" is the ninth installment in Keigo Higashino's popular mystery novel series "Detective Galileo," which has been running for nearly 30 years. Upon its release, it was met with both anticipation from readers, who called it "Detective Galileo's reboot!", and praise from readers, who called it "an unprecedented masterpiece."

Starting with ranking first in the domestic category of Shukan Bunshun's "Mystery Best 10," it was made into a movie in 2022, recording box office revenue of 3 billion yen (Kinema Junpo announcement), and Masaharu Fukuyama, who played the lead role of Yugawa in the movie, won the Best Actor Award for the first time at the 47th Hochi Film Awards in 2023, leaving behind various records.
In Japan, the Detective Galileo series has mostly been produced and broadcast as TV dramas, and this is the third one to be made into a movie, following "The Devotion of Suspect X" (2008) and "A Midsummer Equation" (2013).


The Galileo series is a popular series that is on par with the "Detective Kaga series" in the Higashino world. It is about genius physicist Manabu Yukawa helping his college classmate, elite detective Kusunagi of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1, solve a labyrinthine case.


Yugawa uses his brilliant ideas and sharp insight based on cutting-edge scientific knowledge to dramatically rescue Detective Kusunagi, who is always in a tight spot.
Even when Detective Kusunagi asks for help, he pretends to be indifferent and grumbles, but he is a tsundere who extends a helping hand at a crucial moment.
But in this episode of 『Silent Parade』, he unexpectedly volunteers and actively intervenes in the incident.

In the small town of Kikuno in the countryside, Saori, a pretty girl who was popular among the townspeople for her singing skills, goes missing.
Three years later, Saori returns as a burnt corpse, and the once quiet air in the village begins to stir.

The suspect is a gangster named Hasunuma, who was a suspect in the Adachi Ward girl murder case that Detective Kusunagi was in charge of when he was appointed to the Metropolitan Police Department.
At the time, Hasunuma was arrested as a prime suspect, but after thoroughly exercising his right to remain silent, he was released as not guilty and even received compensation from the state.
A person Kusunagi will never forget.

After a difficult investigation, Kusunagi manages to arrest Hasunuma, but Hasunuma exercises his right to remain silent as before, and the police once again release him due to insufficient evidence.
Going a step further, Hasunuma visits the restaurant run by the parents of the deceased Saori and threatens them to pay compensation, claiming that he was wrongly accused of being the culprit.
His appearance plunges the entire village into hatred and resentment, and the bereaved family and villagers who loved Saori fall into deep doubt, believing that justice cannot be achieved through judicial power.

Then, on the day of the town's autumn festival parade, Hasunuma is found murdered by someone, and the panicked police begin investigating those who might have a motive to kill Hasunuma, but they all have alibis.
Yuga and Manabu, aka Detective Galileo, are thrown into the case by chance, and the silent townspeople begin to be wary of him.

The work is full of twists and turns.
Readers will not be able to put the book down until the very end, where the most powerful twist in Keigo Higashino's history awaits.

In this work, Keigo Higashino has also masterfully depicted his specialty, the "human patterns created by complex human relationships."
As the joys and sorrows of each character and the background of their emotions are peeled away, and the unique circumstances contained within each are revealed, readers become deeply involved in the characters in the novel.

The work reaches its climax as the silence to protect a loved one and the unusual scenery of the town's bustling parade intersect.

Keigo Higashino explains this work in an interview, “The mystery is set in motion by the combined efforts of good, ordinary people who love the victimized girl and who set detective Galileo in motion.”
"The Silent Parade" is a work that allows you to experience the essence of humanism that is hard to find anywhere else, as ordinary people build a "fortress of silence" with all their might to protect the justice that the judiciary cannot realize, and detectives Galileo and Kusunagi struggle to uncover the hidden truth.