The Empire of Corpses
2015 · Movie · 120 min · ★ 6.2
In an alternate 19th-century Europe, a young man is recruited by the government for covert work in a society powered by reanimated corpses used as labor. The story blends espionage, science fiction, and gothic horror around the ethics of industrial progress.
Based on The Empire of Corpses
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Details
- Original title
- 屍者の帝国
- Years
- 2015
- Release date
- 2015-10-02
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 120 min
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 (128 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy dark animated sci-fi with gothic horror and a strange historical setting, somewhere between Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and Blood-C: The Last Dark; Not for you if corpse-based worldbuilding sounds too bleak or off-putting.
Pros: inventive alt-history setting; dark sci-fi premise; secret-agent intrigue | Cons: grim subject matter; unusual concept; limited review data
Themes
- based on novel or book
- gore
- steampunk
- gunfight
- historical
- gothic
- adult animation
- government agent
- reanimated corpse
- 19th century
- anime
- psychological
Cast & crew
Yoshimasa Hosoya
as John H. Watson (voice)
Ayumu Murase
as Friday (voice)
Akio Otsuka
as M (voice)
Takayuki Sugo
as The One (voice)
- TK
Taiten Kusunoki
as Frederick Barnaby (voice)
Kana Hanazawa
as Hadaly Lilith (voice)
Shin-ichiro Miki
as Alexei Karamazov (voice)
Daiki Yamashita
as Nikolai Krasotkin (voice)
Jiro Saito
as Seigo Yamazawa (voice)
Koji Ishii
as Ulysses Grant (voice)
Directed by Ryotaro Makihara