游屋慎太郎

　　本剧改编自同名漫画，义气深重的若头片冈（和田雅成 饰），因帮派内斗，被组长之子桐井（游屋慎太郎 饰）下令外出避风头。随行的组员小田岛（髙桥大翔 饰），表面是司机与随从，暗中却肩负“杀掉片冈”的密令。怀着憎恨与复仇心，他与片冈踏上两人旅途，却渐渐被片冈的真诚与人情味吸引。冷漠的小田岛也展露出意外一面，二人距离悄然拉近。使命与感情交错，最终等待他们的将是死亡，还是爱？一段危而不堪、却又动人的任侠爱情故事。

　　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