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The movie The Empire of Corpses will finally be released in Japan on Friday, Oct. 2. The movie is part of an announced trilogy of Project Itoh’s works and is the second Noitamina movie, continuing from this year’s huge hit, Psycho-Pass the Movie.
Noitamina is a TV anime block by Fuji TV that delivers edgy works to the world, and it is also expanding into movies this year, for which works by Project Itoh, the pen name of the late sci-fi novelist Keikaku Itoh, have been chosen.
Three works by Project Itoh are consecutively being made into movie adaptations: the full-length novels Genocidal Organ and Harmony that Itoh left behind, and an unfinished 30-page preface called The Empire of Corpses that was finished by Itoh’s close friend, Akutagawa Prize-winner Toh EnJoe. The Empire of Corpses will be released first.
With the release date right around the corner, the final PV for The Empire of Corpses has been posted to the official site. This final PV will not be shown in theaters - it’s a web exclusive. The must-see final PV is the first to use Yoshihiro Ike’s dramatic score and is a masterpiece with beautiful visuals that enlarge the scale of the movie all at once.
The story takes place in 19th century London where techniques to revive the dead in order to use them as laborers have been developed. To keep a promise he had made to his close friend Friday, medical student John H. Watson illegally experiments on him to turn him into a ”Frankenstein” with his own hands.
In search of “Victor’s Notes” which hold the key to reviving a soul, Watson and Friday travel to London, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Japan, and the U.S. You won’t want to miss where their globetrotting journey takes them.
Messages from both Keikaku Itoh and Toh EnJoe regarding The Empire of Corpses have also been posted to the official site. Itoh is recognized for publishing hit works in his 30s, but he by no means had a speedy debut. And after shocking the world with two full-length original novels, Itoh had an untimely passing at the young age of 34. His passing came less than two years after his shocking debut.
All that Itoh left behind of his third novel, The Empire of Corpses, was a 30-page preface. In 2012, his close friend Toh EnJoe announced that he would finish writing The Empire of Corpses as his next work. The finished novel, a joint work between the late Itoh and EnJoe, won the Special Award at the 33rd Nihon SF Taisho Award. EnJoe’s message of course touches on the novel, and in it you can sense his feelings for Itoh as well.
The Empire of Corpses
Releasing Friday, Oct. 2 in Japan
© Project Itoh & Toh EnJoe / The Empire of Corpses
Source: animeanime
Source article written by Yuma
