Shisha no Teikoku


The Empire of Corpses

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Synonyms: Project Itoh
Japanese: 屍者の帝国
English: The Empire of Corpses
German: Project Itoh: The Empire of Corpses
Spanish: The Empire of Corpses
French: Project Itoh: The Empire of Corpses
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Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 2, 2015
Producers: None found, add some
Licensors: Funimation
Studios: Wit Studio
Source: Novel
Genre: Sci-FiSci-Fi
Themes: HistoricalHistorical, PsychologicalPsychological
Duration: 2 hr.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 6.841 (scored by 2982929,829 users)
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Ranked: #51842
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Popularity: #2466
Members: 87,550
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Mar 1, 2016
Yesterday I just watched The Empire of Corpses movie and what I got is just disappointment. Let me elaborate my statement with my review.

Story - 3/10
The story is about how Watson (Holmes's partner) discover a way of saving humanity from being zombie. The whole movie is just about his journey of his research and medication. The story itself is quite poor, as the movie itself literally is nothing but a medium to deliver deep messages to the audience. There is no story at all, aside from Watson going to save humanity with dumb and absurd way.

Premise - 6/10
The premise itself is sort of interesting, with ...
May 21, 2016
You know, despite all the advantages they have in terms of budget and brevity, it's a shame anime films get so little attention within the community and even more of a shame that they're generally not very good. And it's not like they're rare or anything, as I've been reviewing quite a lot of them as of late. With the exception of Kizumonogatari and arguably the new Ghost in the Shell, they're not even franchise films made solely to milk the life out of a product that's already on life support. They just don't really take advantage of the fact that they're supposed to be ...
Mar 25, 2016
Few years ago i find myself excited after stumbled on a news. It anounced that three novel work by project itoh would be ADAPTED into a movie. What caught my attention was project itoh happened to be an award winning author, knowing a novel was a medium of public entertainment that freed from ridiculous demographic like shounen, seinen, and shit; therefore i assume it could quench my thirst for a GOOD anime. oh God, i hate that i'm wrong!!

Story: 3 (Just Like Modern Art)
John Watson (Yes, that john watson) adventure to revive his beloved friday as a human being. JUST THAT!! if you happened to ...
Jul 12, 2022
I have an interesting history with this here work of art. The first time I watched it was without hearing any sound/dialogues. I was sitting in a bar with friends and it was playing on one of the screens. So I was periodically looking up and that was how I watched entire thing for the first time. It seemed quite interesting. The art was decent and whatever was happening on the screen seemed very intriguing. But then recently I've decided to watch the whole thing properly. And God knows that was a mistake.

While the premise of the world it is set in sounds interesting - ...
Aug 17, 2017
We’ve all heard the story of Victor Frankenstein and his creation, which often gets mistaken for him. Some versions tell of his monster dancing to Puttin’ on the Ritz, some versions tell of his monster battling an ancient order of gargoyles, and some versions tell of his monster’s daughter attending high school with other Halloween Bratz rejects. But what no version of this classic story has ever told you is that the old doctor was only the first person to successfully reanimate a corpse. His creation could move on it’s own, it could speak, it could make decisions for itself, it could promote strawberry cereal... ...
Sep 28, 2017
Skip to the last sentence if you want to know my overall opinion of the movie

This is spoiler heavy because I give no respect to this movie:

Instead of writing a review based on my choice of scores, I will just write about the things that annoyed me throughout the movie and some things I like. My choice of scores are pretty much the same as the people who rated this a low overall score. Also, this is my second time watching this after a year because everything that happened in the first viewing went over my head.

There is a deep philosophical discussion that ...
Apr 2, 2016
TLDR: You wont regret not watching this.

-The Good
First, the good. The animation and graphics is clearly top notch; no expense was spared here. Even the faces of the zombies were well animated.

The world and setting was particularly interesting; Victorian-era steampunk London? Love it.

-The Bad
This show reminded me the most of Ghost in the Shell with its long expositions and ruminations on the nature of the soul, the seat of human consciousness, and self-awareness. Sadly, the story is nowhere near the quality of GiTS and is largely pretentious, incomprehensible and exasperating.

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Mar 9, 2016
No spoilers, just what I thought about the film.

I was very excited to watch Shisha no Teikoku (Empire of Corpses) after seeing the trailer and the art style. Without reading the premise, I jumped into this movie blind.

Unfortunately, I was utterly disappointed. The late 1800s setting was an interesting choice and the premise of "reanimation" of humans was fair but that was all there is to it. The plot was confusing, hard to follow, and jumped everywhere; I was never sure of anyone's actual motives.

Characters play a huge role to my personal enjoyment and in this movie, it lacked. I do not feel any kind ...
Apr 12, 2020
The premise to this is so good even the animaton and voice acting is superb yet this film fell flat on its face. Ive never seen so much potential in something that could've had so much depth wasted. The film has an inability to focus.

It tries to do too much in a small time frame with too many characters and story lines that are either unnecessary or somewhat intresting but never explained and leaves you standing there like what was the point. The best thing about this film was Friday's and Watsons relationship that's what made the first 15 minutes of this movie good ...
Jul 28, 2016
Pros:
The animation was good.

Cons:
This is yet another movie that attempts to mask its lack of direction with impenetrable philosophy, pretending to super deep when there is actually nothing there. The use of fictional historical characters is just an attempt to be super edgy and is little more than a cheap hook to fool viewers into thinking that it goes somewhere (hint: It doesn't). If you ever wanted to think to yourself, "WTF am I watching?", or "I could be doing something productive instead," then this is the perfect movie for you.

The only reason it keeps 3 stars is because the whole animated corpses in society ...
Dec 20, 2016
I loved the gritty, dark premise of the movie. The execution, however, was extremely lackluster.

Objective Review:

Usually, any story is driven by either the characters, story, or some underlying theme that seems to work (for example, comedy). All these driving factors tend to work hand-in-hand, the best stories incorporating multiple and sticking with one main driver.

Shisha no Teikoku is definitely story-driven. What brings it down is the unsatisfactory character thought processes and disappointing lack of personality depth. It also suffers from not being able to convey its main themes to the audience on a personal level. The movie brings so much potential to character development, ...
Mar 28, 2021
How the hell did they waste such a great opening sequence.

Plot is absolutely convoluted as if they were baffled on how to finish the movie.
Characters are just impossible to get to attached to because of the pacing and general lack of character development. Animation is solid though. No idea why they chose the typical direction of saving the world when there were almost limitless routes the movie could of gone into.

Some of the character designs peeked my interest other times they looked incredibly typical just like the direction of the movie.

The 4 minute opener was the only redeeming quality.
Feb 28, 2017
The first half was great. Original, good story, decent characters. Then it started to fall apart. This screams "We read history, but don't know the culture!" It's just plain idiotic in many places. Second half: Some of the animation is just terrible - it looks like they switched writers and animators midway. Example - noses look like boulders. Hadaly Lilith's chest profile when she's at the helm looks like a 12 year old was the artist - literally sticking a foot out from the front and resembling Hot-Wheel ramps. So idiotic it was distracting, and not in a good way. It soon becomes "Forrest Gumpish" ...