残酷世界

　　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

　　1968年越前海岸三里浜，因不满老大安本富藏（西村晃 饰）独霸组织经营权，富安组•安本组若头川田登（松方弘树 饰）使用武力逼其交出游艇、赛马等行业的权力。交易虽然达成，但安本对川田恨之入骨。在老叔万古喜一（ハナ肇 饰）的引荐下，安本与大阪浅野组•金井组的金井八郎（千叶真一 饰）接头，欲借外来黑帮之手除掉川田。
　　万古借此机会成为安本组老大，随后策划了一场伏击川田的行动。川田险些丧命，伤未痊愈之际便回到北陆寻仇，并斩断安本的一只手臂。出狱之后，川田表面顺服，实则暗中勾结浅野组•冈野组图谋反攻。一场大阪黑帮暗中操控的代理战争旋即展开……

　　故事发生在古罗马时期，护民官米撒拉(史蒂芬•博伊德 Stephen Boyd 饰)回到了故乡，重遇了儿时的好友宾虚(查尔登•海斯顿 Charlton Heston 饰)。宾虚家是犹太人的豪门，在犹太人中享有相当高的待遇，为了控制犹太人，使他们安份的臣服于古罗马帝国的统治之下，米撒拉希望宾虚帮忙。但宾虚不肯出卖自己的民族，于是两个好友决裂了。随后，米撒拉找了借口治了宾虚一家谋反罪，宾虚被卖到一艘军舰上当奴隶，而他也失去家人们的信息。一次偶然机会，宾虚立了战功，得到了古罗马的皇帝接见，他回到了故乡，也开始了他的复仇之旅!