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
一群热心的年轻的医生、准医生组成了一支医疗队，深夜奔赴到一个疫症蔓延的村庄。这群年轻人落脚在当地的一座古旧城堡里，然而令他们没有想到的是，这里竟然有着比瘟疫更可怕的东西——流言。这里流传着幽灵出没的传说，传说一个黑色的幽灵经常在半夜出没，吃人肉、饮人血。这些年轻人当然不会将这个无稽之谈放在心上，特别是心理医生姜洪武（聂远 饰），他认为鬼神都是人类的心理幻想，然而，村民却一个一个的倒下了，就连这些医生们都有些人真的看到了“幽灵”。果真有个吃人的幽灵徘徊在村里？
