Ed, using a tattoo on the attacker's wrist, manages to identify him as Vincent Volaju, a former member of a military squad apparently killed in the Titan War. Faye, who was pursuing Lee Sampson, a hacker who was apparently driving the truck, sees the terrorist and the Bebop crew decide to take on the bounty. In response, the Mars government issues a record bounty of 300 million woolong for the culprit's capture. They are Spike Spiegel, a former associate of the Red Dragon crime syndicate Jet Black, a former police officer and owner of the Bebop Faye Valentine, a woman who was once a fugitive from bounty hunters Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV (Ed for short), a bubbly, energetic girl with genius computer skills and Ein, an artificially enhanced "data dog" with human-level intelligence.ĭays before Halloween, a man explodes a truck in Mars' capital city, spreading what is assumed to be a new pathogen that kills or sickens over 300 people. The film's protagonists are legalized bounty hunters who travel together on the spaceship Bebop. Humanity has settled on other planets and moons in the solar system. The film received generally positive reviews from mainstream and anime critics and was nominated for the Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Animated Film.Ĭowboy Bebop: The Movie is set on Mars in 2071, 49 years after Earth was mostly abandoned after a catastrophe. It went on to gross over $3 million worldwide, and when released on DVD, it ranked high on Japanese and US charts. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie was released to theaters in Japan on September 1, 2001, and in the United States on August 11, 2002.
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The film was produced by studios Sunrise, which had previously developed the original series Bones, a later studio founded by former Sunrise staff and Bandai Visual. The Arabic atmosphere was also used in Kanno's music. Arabic thematic elements were incorporated to contrast against the series, which entailed Watanabe traveling to Morocco for research. Increased budget and production facilities enabled the use of filming styles associated with live action films and a higher animation quality than the series. So as not to alienate fans of the series, a large amount of aesthetic material was incorporated, while also adjusting it to make it accessible to newcomers. The film was conceived by Watanabe as an extension of his work on the television series, which he treated as a series of miniature films. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop work to find the terrorist and discover the pathogen's source before the attack can take place. The plot centers on a mysterious terrorist planning to destroy the human population on Mars using an unknown pathogen. Both the original Japanese and English voice cast also reprised their roles.Ĭowboy Bebop: The Movie is set between episodes 22 and 23 of the original series. Multiple staff from the original series worked on the film, including director Shinichirō Watanabe writer Keiko Nobumoto character designer/animation director Toshihiro Kawamoto and composer Yoko Kanno.
Cowboy Bebop: Heaven's Door), is a 2001 Japanese animated science fiction film based on the 1998 anime series Cowboy Bebop created by Hajime Yatate.
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, known in Japan as Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door ( Japanese: カウボーイビバップ 天国の扉, Hepburn: Kaubōi Bibappu: Tengoku no Tobira, lit.