Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current

The film constructs its mystery around a compelling natural phenomenon—the six-hour tidal cycle of the Seto Inland Sea—using it as a rigid framework for the investigation. It explores the patient, logical method of its detective, where human motives slowly surface like the drifting bodies.

What lingers after the final reveal is a quiet contemplation on how the past, much like the relentless sea, eventually washes its secrets ashore. — MovieFinder Editorial