Midsummer's Equation

Midsummer's Equation

129 mins | Drama, Crime, Mystery | June 28, 2013

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.

Midsummer's Equation

129 mins | Drama, Crime, Mystery | June 28, 2013

Midsummer's Equation
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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers
Original title 真夏の方程式
Directors Hiroshi Nishitani
Writers Yasushi Fukuda, Keigo Higashino

Cast

Masaharu Fukuyama

as Yukawa Manabu

Yuriko Yoshitaka

as Misa Kishitani

Kazuki Kitamura

as Shunpei 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

as Keiichi Tsukazaki

Hikaru Yamazaki

as Kyohei Tsukazaki