Midsummer's Equation

Jun 28, 2013

2h 9m

★ 7.0

Overview

Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an oceanside town to speak on a panel. But when a man turns up dead outside the inn where he's staying, Yukawa begins to unravel the connections that tie the victim to the activist daughter of the innkeepers, and a precocious boy who first appears on a train—and keeps popping up. It's a Sherlock Holmes mystery with an environmental twist, and one that should please fans of a classic whodunnit.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Mystery

Production Companies

TOHO

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Cast

Manabu Yukawa

Masaharu Fukuyama

Misa Kishitani

Yuriko Yoshitaka

Shumpei Kusanagi

Kazuki Kitamura

Narumi Kawabata

Anne Watanabe

Setsuko Kawabata

Jun Fubuki

Hidetoshi Senba

Hakuryu

Shigeharu Kawabata

Gin Maeda

Nobuko Miyake

Naomi Nishida

Shoji Tsukahara

Sansei Shiomi

Keiichi Tsukazaki

Tetsushi Tanaka

Kyohei Tsukazaki

Hikaru Yamazaki

Tôru Kizu

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