His neighbour Yasuko Hanaoka is a single mother living with her teenage daughter Misato, after having moved several times to escape from an abusive ex-husband. He has an unrequited infatuation with his neighbour, but as no one seems to notice, and he isn’t willing to pursue it, it remains relatively innocent.

Tetsuya Ishigami is a teacher, regarded as a mathematical genius in his school years he now teaches unmotivated school kids while living a very simple life. This was the third highest grossing film of 2008 and featured the continuation of the same characters (and actors) from the 2007 TV drama Galileo, which was also based on another book by Keigo Higashino. In 2008 the movie of The Devotion of Suspect X was released, it was directed by Hiroshi Nishitani and starred Shinichi Tsutsumi and Yasuko Matsuyuki. He has been writing since 1985 and has had numerous books, essays and children’s stories published, many of which have been adapted for TV dramas and movies. In 2006 he won the 134th Naoki Prize and the 6th Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize for his novel, The Devotion of Suspect X, which had been published the previous year. Keigo Higashino was born in Osaka in 1958. ISBN: 0349123748 Review by Michael Sullivan Nevertheless, for those who have not watched any of the two movies, its Hindi remake, directed by Nishikant Kamat and starring Ajay Devgan, will be released on July 31 while the Tamil version starring none other than Kamal Haasan in the lead role is now out in theatre.Translated by Alexander O. If Jeethu Joseph agreed that this film was an inspired version, there wouldn’t have been any such discussion. I’m not saying it’s an out-and-out copy version, but the similarities cannot just be mere coincidence. While I must thank Drishyam’s writer and director, Jeethu Joseph for bringing a Japanese story to the Indian audience, and shaping this into our culture or language, he simply needs to accept his inspiration. The similarity is certainly on the plot or theme level, and that’s enough to be termed an inspired version. The story even has no suspense elements on who committed the murder, it’s the deception about crime and punishment that keeps you gazing till the end. As fate turns out for them, he goes against all odds to cover up a murder committed by his wife and their daughter. In the Malayalam movie Drishyam, Mohanlal’s character is a family man who is living a happy and content life in the Kerala countryside with his wife and daughter.

In the Japanese novel, a math teacher helps his neighbor lady and her daughter to hide the accidental murder of her abusive husband.

The devotion of suspect x 2005