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.

Directed by Hiroshi Nishitani

Top cast

Masaharu Fukuyama

Manabu Yukawa

Yuriko Yoshitaka

Misa Kishitani

Kazuki Kitamura

Shumpei Kusanagi

Anne Watanabe

Narumi Kawabata

Jun Fubuki

Setsuko Kawabata

Hakuryu

Hidetoshi Senba

Gin Maeda

Shigeharu Kawabata

Naomi Nishida

Nobuko Miyake

Sansei Shiomi

Shoji Tsukahara

Tetsushi Tanaka

Keiichi Tsukazaki

Hikaru Yamazaki

Kyohei Tsukazaki

Tôru Kizu

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