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
这部现实主义风格的影片突出表现了人与人之间的隔膜和孤独。约翰·卡萨维茨既是性格演员，又是个成功的导演。这部独立制作的影片花了8个月的时间拍摄，所耗费的5万美元是他当演员时攒下的。为节约成本，他用16mm的摄影机在借用的民房里即兴拍摄，并在自己的车库里将影片翻印成35mm的影片。他花了整整3年的时间才找到代理发行的公司，但上映后却受到好评，并获得奥斯卡最佳编剧、最佳男女配角金像奖的提名。 本片描写丈夫理查德在外面和妓女调情，妻子玛丽娅却和流浪汉同床共宿，当妻子的奸情被丈夫发觉后，理查德痛骂妻子，而玛丽娅则向他声明他们的关系彻底结束。
