Murayama Kaita, a Japanese painter, novelist and poet died in 1919 at the age of 22, leaving behind an impressive and time-defying body of work. In his most recent film, Sato Hisayasu offers a surreal, time-crossing, meta-layered essay on the artist, his originality and his legacy. Dear Kaita Ablaze brings together a young woman Azami obsessed with Murayama's painting, a young man Saku, who can hear unusual frequencies and claims to be Murayama or his spiritual imprint and a quartet of young performers with psychic abilities. They bond over Murayama’s work which they recreate in performative dance while driving to a mysterious cave called Agartha. Sato Hisayasu (The Eye's Dream, Muscle, The Bedroom), renowned for his pinku and exploration of madness and lust, returns to IFFR. Dear Kaita Ablaze is hyper-dense, obsessive and driven, effortlessly mashing surrealism with sci-fi and mysticism, layering seemingly unrelated events and encounters to bring them together in a monumental climax. – kijA
故事发生在禁酒令执行期间，私酒买卖成为了黑帮分子们赚钱谋利的最佳手段。达利（大卫·帕特里克·凯利 David Patrick Kelly 饰）和史托兹（尼德·艾森伯格 Ned Eisenberg 饰）分别是爱尔兰黑手党和意大利黑手党的首脑，两个帮派因为争夺地盘的问题而闹得剑拔弩张。 某日，镇上来了一位神秘的流浪抢手，自称史密斯（布鲁斯·威利斯 Bruce Willis 饰），经验丰富的他很快就看出了盘旋在小镇上空一触即发的紧张气氛，喜欢铤而走险的史密斯决定在此大捞一笔。史密斯游走于达利和史托兹之间，很快就赚得盆满钵满，然而，没过多久，他就发现，自己陷入了危机之中，成为了两大黑手党都想要除掉的对象。
