当代孝子

　　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

　　著名影评人伍岳在京城非常有名气，只要他说好的电影，票房一定大卖。著名美食评论家黄珊也非常有名气，人送外号：活的大众点评。这两个人虽然各自频繁约会，但就是不结婚。这天，伍岳出门开车散心，黄珊赌气开车出家门。伍岳的车撞上黄珊的车，两人在路边产生争执，最后伍岳同意了修车的费用负责，同时伍岳请黄珊吃饭表示歉意。在后来的相处中两人的矛盾再次被激化，互相怀疑互相打击。一天，两人去看电影，看完电影，伍岳写了一篇影评发在网上，不久，因为这篇影评房地产商大牛投资的影片票房惨败，大牛仇视伍岳，对他实施了绑架，绑架的目的就是想让他再写一篇正面影评，伍岳不从，大牛痛哭流涕，说自己资金链断裂，但因为有情怀，所以借了很多钱拍电影，伍岳被感动，答应帮他一次。为了救伍岳，黄珊来到大牛的老巢，两人终于逃出困境，也最终走到了一起。按他们自己的话来说：他们走到一起。也算是“为民除害”了。