蓝衣魔鬼

　　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

　　永禄9年（1566），适值日本战国时代，8名落魄武士逃到某山村，从此解甲归田，过起普通农夫的生活。不久，毛利一族追查藏匿武士，村民庄左卫门（桥本功 饰）设计将武士们杀害。武士临死前放下诅咒，陷害他们之人必死于非命。在此之后，诅咒应验，包括庄左卫门在内8人死亡，村子也改名为八墓村。
　　昭和24年，在东京担任飞机领航员的寺田辰弥（萩原健一 饰）突然得知自己竟是冈山县八墓村大家族多治见家的孩子，时当主多治见久弥（山崎努 饰）病入膏肓，辰弥作为遗产继承人被召回八墓村。然此行注定险恶非常，迎接他的外祖父井川丑松（加藤嘉 饰）刚一见面即遭毒杀。辰弥从村人口中知晓八墓村的由来，更得知庄左卫门即多治见家的祖先。非正常死亡事件接连发生，究竟是武士绵延400年的诅咒？还是其后另有阴谋？
　　本片根据推理小说家横沟正史同名原著改编。

　本片讲述了宝鸡千阳县千川村面临换届选举，青年村民李向南凭借先进的矮砧苹果栽植技术走上富裕路。作为候选人之一的他，想在村里推广新技术，而另一位候选人村主任老耿，则一心想要保住20年前带领大家种植的老乔化苹果树。在经历了苹果滞销、双方互不理解乃至激烈对抗等一系列冲突之后，李向南终于用事实说服老耿。县里派叶小雨为扶贫第一书记协助李向南搞扶贫，二人默契配合克服重重困难，最终先进的苹果种得到推广。