# Midsummer's Equation (2013)

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**Original title**: *真夏の方程式*
**Runtime**: 129 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama, Mystery
**Directed by**: Hiroshi Nishitani
**Written by**: Yasushi Fukuda
**Starring**: Masaharu Fukuyama, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Kazuki Kitamura, Anne Watanabe, Jun Fubuki, Hakuryu

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Crisp October. A walkway by a tsunami wall. A physics paper flutters into the surf.

A physicist on a coastal panel finds a corpse outside his inn. The dead man’s links to the innkeeper’s activist daughter—and a sharp-elbowed boy glimpsed on the train—begin to knot.

Masaharu Fukuyama treats the Sherlockian puzzle to a post-Fukushima chill.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, cerebral, outsider, slow-burn

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