Midsummer's Equation
2013 · 2h 9m
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Directed by
Hiroshi Nishitani
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Midsummer's Equation
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.
Director and cast
- Hiroshi Nishitani Director
- Masaharu Fukuyama as Manabu Yukawa
- Yuriko Yoshitaka as Misa Kishitani
- Kazuki Kitamura as Shumpei Kusanagi
- Anne Watanabe as Narumi Kawabata
- Jun Fubuki as Setsuko Kawabata
- Hakuryu as Hidetoshi Senba
- Gin Maeda as Shigeharu Kawabata
- Naomi Nishida as Nobuko Miyake
- Sansei Shiomi as Shoji Tsukahara
- Tetsushi Tanaka Cast
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