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　　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

　　1948年，洛杉矶的经济突趋繁荣，满怀希望的军人伊斯退役后到洛杉矶寻找工作，满怀信心的他，以为像他这样出色的黑人在洛杉矶不难找到合适的位置，怎料好不容易才找到一份在机场内当技工的工作，但不久又被老板解雇，更被房东催收欠租。就在绝望边缘之际，他受聘于神秘男子狄维去找寻一个失踪女子黛芬，而伊斯也因此而堕进狄维的圈套，他也不知不觉间被牵涉到恐吓、谋杀、政治的纠缠之中。

　　马蒂（塞巴斯蒂安·弗拉斯多夫 Sebastian Fräsdorf 饰）是一个性格非常软弱的男人，遇事只会忍气吞声，毫无反抗意识。这年夏天，马蒂带着女友（Alice Pehlivanyan 饰）来到别墅度假，打算在这里度过一个悠闲而又浪漫的假日，哪知道，马蒂那平日里处处咄咄逼人的哥哥（戈德哈尔德·吉瑟 Godehard Giese 饰）带着老婆突然出现。
　　明明是后发制人，但哥哥理所应当的占据了屋子里最好的房间和资源，将马蒂和女友赶到了又小又阴暗的房间里，让女友气不打一处来的是，马蒂对于这些越轨的行为竟然全然接受。忍不了这口气的女友决定帮助马蒂出气，小小的别墅中，针锋相对的四人开始了拉锯战。