海角七号

　　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

　　11岁的东尼接受拳击训练，然而她被隔壁舞道教室吸引，偷偷私下练习，并为自己穿耳洞，希望加入那些女孩的行列。女孩们相继出现抽搐、奇怪的症状，仿佛是一种成长的象征，也使得东尼陷入想被认同却又犹疑这样的诡异情景的矛盾之中。

　　本作脚本出自青岛武和泷本智行之手，讲述了一同经历过年少时期的3位少年在度过25岁之时，因调查某件杀人事件而分别以刑警、嫌疑人和被害者再度相遇，追溯事件的真相以及内心深处封印的禁忌过去。而与三人有着千丝万缕联系的案件真相、一段讳莫如深的过往，也将在调查过程中逐渐浮出水面。
　　在片中，冈田准一饰演的四方笃为了逃避过去而成为了刑警，但因杀人事件为契机又直面了自己的过往，小栗旬饰演四方的旧友以及杀人事件中浮出水面的嫌疑人田所启太，柄本明将饰演田所的青梅竹马以及事件的被害者川端悟。长泽雅美饰演四方的妻子，田所的妻子由木村文乃饰演，西田尚美饰演川端的妻子。