Midsummer's Equation
Seen it?2013 | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With almost no lasting buzz and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for crime-drama fans and anyone who likes to be kept guessing. If you loved The Prestige, start here.
- The mood
- Tense, dark and gritty.
- The pace
- Takes its time with its characters, at 2 hr 9 min.
- What might put you off
- It's in Japanese, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
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.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Box office & staying powerBelow par
$701K worldwide; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 6K people sought it out in the past year
Trailer
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Cast & crew
Directed by Hiroshi Nishitani
- Masaharu FukuyamaManabu Yukawa
- Yuriko YoshitakaMisa Kishitani
- Kazuki KitamuraShumpei Kusanagi
- Anne WatanabeNarumi Kawabata
- Jun FubukiSetsuko Kawabata
- HakuryuHidetoshi Senba
- Gin MaedaShigeharu Kawabata
- Naomi NishidaNobuko Miyake
- Sansei ShiomiShoji Tsukahara
- Tetsushi TanakaKeiichi Tsukazaki