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Laplace’s Witch
The legendary Takashi Miike has made brilliant films, terrible films, and roughly ninety more that fall in between those extremes. He averages roughly two features per year moving between genres like he’s playing a game of hot potato, and while last year’s Blade of the Immortal sits near the high end he’s chased it with a far lesser film. Laplace’s Witch is a mystery with some mildly supernatural elements, but forget suspenseful — this movie’s not even interesting.
A body is found in the snow outside a small town, and a bic city detective believes it’s murder. He’s at a loss as to explain it, though, and brings in a geology professor named Shusuke Aoe (Sho Sakurai) to officially confirm it’s no accident. A second victim is found, and while the cause is shown to be poisoning by way of a gas the mystery as to how exactly it happened remains. The arrival of a young woman named Madoka Uhara (Suzu Hirose) complicates things further as she exhibits a strange ability to predict the “future” based on natural interactions with the world.
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Hiroshi Tamaki, Lily Franky, Mirai Shida, Sho Sakurai, Sota Fukushi, Suzu Hirose, Tao Okamoto
Country: Japan
