Volume I
Rain
In a quiet farming town, the rain is changing people. Sachiko is nineteen, and she is the only one who seems to notice.
1952.
A farming town in northern Japan.
It rains for three days.
When it stops, the people are still there.
Something inside them is not.
The files are sealed. The town is told to forget.
2036.
It rains again.
The saga
Shinsei means rebirth.
Six stories. Three decades. A generation of young women in a Japan ruled by corporations and bound by tradition.
Farm girls. Hackers. Soldiers. Daughters of billionaires. Each of them is expected to stay quiet.
None of them do.
The stories
Every title stands alone. Every title feeds the next.
Volume II
Warlord
The machines keep the peace. The corporations own the machines. One murder, and one officer who keeps asking questions.
Volume III
We Stay Hidden
A billionaire. His daughter. A game he did not design, and cannot afford to lose.
Rain
Shot in the rain.
Filmed in Japan during tsuyu, the rainy season. The weather is a cast member.
Vertical series
Built for the phone.
Three stories told in one-minute episodes, made for the screen in your hand.
Martial arts drama
Onna's Path
She does not speak. She does not miss.
Cyber-thriller
Hidden Blade: Yuki's Code
Seventeen. Off the grid. Writing something they cannot stop.
Neo-noir
The Courier
No name. No face. She carries what no network can.
The women of Shinsei
Sachiko
She saw it first.
Ami
Sachiko's oldest friend.
Onna
Forged in silence.
Yuki
Always online. Never found.
Aiko
A billionaire's daughter.
The Courier
No name. No face.
Six women. Six ways in. One war.
Found in the hills
No one can place it.
A circle. A wave.
A lightning bolt.
It has been waiting a long time to be found.
Learn to look for it.
Who owns your attention?Who decides what you feel?What happens when they stop asking permission?
Cyberpunk with a heartbeat.
The creator
Courtney LeMarco
Executive Producer and Showrunner of the Emmy-nominated A&E series Hoarders.
Founder and CEO of The LeMarco Group, headquartered in Tokyo. The Shinsei Saga is his original universe.
The forecast calls for rain.
The Shinsei Saga
Press and business enquiries: c.lemarco@lemarcoglobal.com
