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Midsummer's Equation
2013 6.9 (35 votes) 2h 9m
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Genres
Crime Drama Mystery
Production Companies
TOHO

Midsummer's Equation (真夏の方程式)

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.

Key Crew

Director: Hiroshi Nishitani

Screenplay: Yasushi Fukuda

Director of Photography: Katsumi Yanagijima

Producer: Yoshihiro Suzuki, Megumi Osawa

Top Cast

Masaharu Fukuyama
Masaharu Fukuyama

Manabu Yukawa

Yuriko Yoshitaka
Yuriko Yoshitaka

Misa Kishitani

Kazuki Kitamura
Kazuki Kitamura

Shumpei Kusanagi

Anne Watanabe
Anne Watanabe

Narumi Kawabata

Jun Fubuki
Jun Fubuki

Setsuko Kawabata

Hakuryu
Hakuryu

Hidetoshi Senba

Gin Maeda
Gin Maeda

Shigeharu Kawabata

Naomi Nishida
Naomi Nishida

Nobuko Miyake

Videos

Midsummer's Equation Trailer 【Fuji TV Official】

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