Midsummer's Equation
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2013-06-28
Runtime: 129 mins
Director: Hiroshi Nishitani
Spoken language: 日本語
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Original title: Midsummer's Equation
Production Companies: TOHO, FILM, AMUSE, Fuji Television Network, Bungeishunju, Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting, Iwate Menkoi Television, Sendai Television, Akita Television, Sakuranbo Television Broadcasting Corporation, Fukushima Television Broadcasting, Niigata Sogo Television, Nagano Broadcasting System, Shizuoka Telecasting, Toyama Television, Ishikawa Television Broadcasting, Fukui Television Broadcasting, Tokai Television Broadcasting, Kansai Television, San-in Chuo Television Broadcasting, Okayama Broadcasting, Television Shin-Hiroshima System, Ehime Broadcasting, Kochi Sun Sun Broadcasting, Television Nishinippon Corporation, Saga Television Station, Television Nagasaki, Kumamoto Kenmin Televisions, Television Oita System, Miyazaki Telecasting, Kagoshima Television Station, Okinawa Television Broadcasting
Production Countries: Japan
Cast
Masaharu Fukuyama
Yuriko Yoshitaka
Kazuki Kitamura
Anne Watanabe
Jun Fubuki
Hakuryu
Gin Maeda
Naomi Nishida
Sansei Shiomi
Tetsushi Tanaka
Hikaru Yamazaki
Tôru Kizu
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