Manatsu no Houteishiki
Movie
真夏の方程式 2013/06/28
Character count17,984
Word count7,720
Unique words1,677
Unique words used once881
Unique kanji735
Unique kanji used once199
Difficulty beta Easy

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.

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