# Laplace's Witch (2018)

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**Original title**: *ラプラスの魔女*
**Runtime**: 115 min
**Genres**: Mystery, Crime, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Takashi Miike
**Written by**: Hiroyuki Yatsu
**Starring**: Sho Sakurai, Suzu Hirose, Sota Fukushi, Tao Okamoto, Lily Franky, Mirai Shida

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Acrid yellow gas hissing through vents of a sealed room. A map dotted with two autopsies, same poison, same stranger. A statistician’s quiet obsession with order meets a cryptic girl in white.

Smells like spring rain on asphalt at midnight but something’s wetter here.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, dread, mindfuck, paranoid

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