Director: Hisayasu SATO
Cast: Shintaro YUYA / Riho SATO / Kei KUDO/ Reno SUZUTA /

Ken HATTA / Emi SATSUKI / Hyou TANAKA / Shiro SANO

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Genre: Fantasy / Art / Romance

Status: Completed

Theatrical Release in Japan: 2024

[2024 / 1.85:1 / Color / 5.1ch / 102 min. / Japanese with English subtitles]

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[Festival Records]

Official Selection: The 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam - Harbor Section

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[Synopsis]

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.