Mitsuhiro Toda

I wrote the script for a movie called "The Holy Spirit in Ultramarine".
I am looking for a buyer for the script, a production team to go to Japan to shoot the film, a budget, and a path to release the film.
The genre of the film is Spiritual, Synchronicity, and Forgiveness, and is based on "A Course In Miracles".


Originally, I was a film historian, working to find and screen films that had not been released in my home country, Japan, regardless of nationality, age, or genre. In the process, I began to screen relatively new Japanese digital independent films and was eventually asked by filmmakers I met in the course of these activities to review, revise and advise them on their scripts.

On the other hand, I am also interested in Spiritualism. This itself came from the influence of a female director. She was the assistant director of Naomi Kawase's film, which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. She gave me a copy of an academic paper by a scholar on past lives and reincarnation, and after reading it, I became interested in the spiritual world. That's how I came across A Course in Miracles, which became the best-selling book in the spiritual world section of the American publishing industry. I still love to read "ACIM", learn its contents, and sometimes teach it.

As a film historian and film archaeologist, I have been particularly fond of the works of American directors such as D.W. Griffith, John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Raoul Walsh. Their films are beautiful. Of these, D.W. Griffith was called the "father of American cinema" because he made more than 500 films and developed cinematography, editing and storytelling techniques by making them. For this reason, Jean-Luc Godard said, "All cinema is American cinema". That's how influential Griffith's methods were, and he is also the parent of cinema in the sense that he established most of the film genres and types of stories found in today's movies.

However, given the current state of humanity, I think we need to add a new film genre to the list. The new genre is the spiritual film, the synchronicity film, and the forgiveness film. Of course, this is not to say that films with these contents have not been produced before. In a way, the genre may be completed only by Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1955 film "Ordet".

Did you know? Did you know that more people than ever before in human history are practicing yoga, meditating right after waking up and right before going to bed, praying in response to calls on the Internet, and trying to discover the divine power within themselves? And that they are actually discovering it. These people are looking for what they can contribute to resolve conflicts and connect with love in this conflict-ridden world.

Cinématographe can contribute to this reality of the world. We can make spiritual films, synchronicity films, and forgiveness films. No one should be forgotten. Such films should be made to inspire and empower people around the world who are striving to bring about a world where no one is forgotten and where the world is kind to all living beings.

I think it is important for the future of the world to make films in this field. But should I order someone to "do it"? No, I don't think so. So I decided to give it a try myself. Maybe I could write a screenplay. So it took me from May 2012 to June last year to write a script for a movie titled "The Holy Spirit in Ultramarine". I once wrote a full-length feature script in one night!

As such, I am currently in the process of taking action to make it into a movie.



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It takes place in Kobe, Japan and Soni Village, Nara Prefecture. The main character is a Japanese woman in her thirties named Mari Hosono, she is a chalk artist. She is single. Her parents are divorced, and she lives with her mother, Ryoko. Mari's mother runs a Japanese-style tavern called "Suzukaze" with her mother's cousin. Mari voluntarily withdrew from a private art college in Tokyo after being severely sexually harassed by her classmates. For a long time, Mari was mentally ill, holed up in her room, and sometimes attempted suicide. One day, she saw a Japanese chalk artist working in New Zealand on a TV program and decided to try her hand at it, so she taught herself the chalk art technique and made it her profession. But her heart was never in the right place.

In May of 2017, Mari's mother, Ryoko, was hospitalized and diagnosed with terminal cancer with three months to live. Shortly after that, a classmate of Ryoko's named Masato Shiraishi came to visit her. Masato Shiraishi had been severely bullied by his classmates in elementary school, and he came to thank Ryoko for helping him out. The man, Masato Shiraishi, and his wife, Yukiko Shimada, were teachers at "A Course In MIracles". Mari, Shiraishi and Shimada began to interact with the couple. What effect will the "forgiveness" taught in "A Course In Miracles" have on Mari's long-standing psychological trauma and her mother's incurable disease?


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This is a long story, divided into three parts: (1) There must be another way, (2) I am responsible for what I see, and (3) Thy Will be done. In total, it's probably longer than "Gone with the Wind" and shorter than Jacques Rivette's "Out 1 : Noli me tangere".

It was an adventure for me to write this script.
Masato Shiraishi is set to be a Prince lover. At the 1985 American Music Awards, Prince said, "For all of us, life is death without adventure". This is the motto of Masato Shiraishi, of course, because I love Prince and I cherish these words.

Should I also direct and produce?

That would be a great adventure, but I don't think I'm equipped for that. That's why I've registered here, so that people can buy this script. I'm looking for a good team to get "The Holy Spirit in Ultramarine" made into a movie, a budget to back the team, and a path to release.

Thank you for reading.



Mitsuhiro Toda