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.
Japanese study overview
Manatsu no Houteishiki is a Japanese movie of 18,102 characters, with 1,706 unique words and 735 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,706 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 仙波Sennami×61
- 塚原Tsukahara×48
- 成実Shigezane×45
- 海sea×39
- 玻璃quartz×37
- 私I×30
- 僕I×29
- 浦inlet×29
- 言うto say×26
- 川畑Kawahata×23
- 知るto know×21
- 中inside×20
- 恭平Kyōhei×19
- 湯川Yukawa×19
- 重治Eiji×17
- 三宅Santaku×15
- 海原ocean×13
- 緑岩greenstone×6
- 水深depth of water×5
- 荘counter for games of mahjong×5