01 / 8 — Cover
Producer pitch deck · 企画書
MINKA
The past refuses to die. The road to redemption leads through Hell.
A feature screenplay by Nicola Davis · Supernatural Thriller / Horror · Available for option & purchase
02 / 8 — The Story
One house. One curse. One descent into Hell.
I · 相続
Rika, a Japanese-American artist, inherits her late mother's secret minka deep in Iwate's “Devil's Hand” mountains — and finds it does not want her. A samurai ghost stalks the halls, Satanic bikers menace the valley, and something older still waits below.
II · 呪い
A carpenter's kindness, a priest's failed ritual, and a doorway hidden behind the Shinto shrine: a portal to Hell and a curse born of a 1500s betrayal. Rika chooses to fight — training in budō, shaving her head in renunciation of fear.
III · 地獄
She descends the underworld, survives a flaming demon, frees the samurai spirit from purgatory, and breaks the cycle of vengeance — returning to belonging, purpose, and love.
03 / 8 — The Setting
Iwate Prefecture — lost in time.
A remote village in the mountains of northern Iwate Prefecture, where centuries-old magariya farmhouses still stand and old beliefs never left. Fog pooled in the valleys, lantern-lit farmhouses, shrines older than the maps — a world modern life seems to have forgotten.
The minka & the gate — the family's inheritance
Inside — where the past waits
04 / 8 — The Characters
The Characters · 登場人物
RIKA
The Heroine
34. Japanese-American. Hip and modern — choppy shoulder-length hair with magenta stripes, a diamond in her nose, cowboy boots under an indigo Japanese apron.
THE CARPENTER
Love Interest
A local Japanese carpenter. Square-jawed and handsome with slanted eyes, muscular, six feet tall, shoulder-length hair — dressed in traditional blue indigo carpenter apparel.
THE MONK
Buddhist Priest
In his mid-50s. Bald head, traditional Buddhist apparel — the uncle who attempts the failed spiritual intervention that reveals the portal to Hell.
THE SATANIC BIKER
Antagonist
A Bosozoku biker in denim covered with patches — and a very bad attitude. A crude, unpredictable human threat in the valley.
THE GHOST
The Samurai Spirit
A 1500s samurai woman in a dirty white funeral kimono, waist-length hair cascading around a beautiful aristocratic narrow face — bound to the house by betrayal.
THE KID
The Samurai Child
A 3-year-old samurai child in a dirt-white funeral kimono. Innocence caught in a centuries-old curse.
05 / 8 — Visual Style
Visual style — beauty hiding dread.
Moonlit noir
Cold blue-black nights, one red signal in every frame
Folk texture
Paper shoji, soot-dark beams, ritual objects of a living past
The feminine ghost tradition
Stillness, hair, white kimono — dread before violence
Heat and hell
Molten undercolors for the underworld's final act
06 / 8 — Audience
Target audience
Think a Japanese version of Twilight, meets Ring, meets Rocky. MINKA bridges horror audiences and viewers who enjoy emotionally driven supernatural stories: the young adult crossover crowd that made Twilight a phenomenon, J-horror fans raised on The Ring, and martial-arts cinephiles. Female-forward hero story, authentic Japanese setting, franchise-friendly mythology.
07 / 8 — Production
Production possibilities
Contained cast, single primary location, practical folklore effects with a contained VFX footprint — a prestige horror package at a controlled budget.
08 / 8 — Rights & Contact
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