DEAR KAITA ABLAZE

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Science-fiction - Completed 2023


Festivals
& Awards

Rotterdam IFFR 2024
Harbor sectiopn
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Science-fiction, Fantasy
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 102 mn
    • 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.