Midsummer's Equation
Manatsu no hôteishiki
2013, Film, 128 min, Mystery, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 67
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.
Directed by Hiroshi Nishitani
Cast
- Masaharu Fukuyama as Manabu Yukawa
- Yuriko Yoshitaka as Misa Kishitani
- Kazuki Kitamura as Shunpei Kusanagi
- Anne Watanabe as Narumi Kawabata
- Hikaru Yamazaki as Kyohei Tsukazaki
- Jun Fubuki as Setsuko Kawabata
- Gin Maeda as Shigeharu Kawabata
- Ken Aoki
- Aki Fujii as Bazaar shopkeeper
- Hakuryû as Hidetoshi Senba
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