Midsummer's Equation

Release Date: 2013-06-28
Runtime: 2Hours 9Minutes
Language: Japanese.
Director: Hiroshi Nishitani.
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 .

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.