Laplace’s Witch hits theaters in Japan on May 05, 2018.
In Laplace’s Witch, Sho Sakurai plays Professor Shusuke Aoe, a geochemist who is consulted by the police after a pair of people mysteriously die of hydrogen sulfide poisoning at two different Japanese hot springs at the same time.
The police want to eliminate foul play, and Shusuke agrees that planning such a poisoning would be impossible without precise knowledge of all of the surrounding geological conditions…until he meets a mysterious woman (played by Suzu Hirose) who seems to possess exactly that kind of impossible knowledge.