Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

Cowboy Bebop The Movie, known in Japan as Cowboy Bebop Knockin on Heavens Door Japanese , Hepburn Kaubi Bibappu Tengoku no Tobira? , lit. Cowboy Bebop Heavens Door , is a 2001 Japanese animated space Western action film based on the 1998 anime series Cowboy Bebop created by Hajime Yatate. Multiple staff from the original series worked on the film, including director Shinichir Watanabe, writer Keiko Nobumoto, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, and animation director Hiroshi Osaka, and composer Yoko Kanno. The original English and Japanese voice cast also reprised their roles.

Cowboy Bebop The Movie is set on Mars in the year 2071, fortynine years after Earth was mostly abandoned after a catastrophe. Humanity has settled on other planets and moons in the solar system. The films protagonists are legalized bounty hunters who travel together on the spaceship Bebop. 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 Ed for short, a girl with genius computer skills and Ein, an artificial dog with human level intelligence.Days 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 three hundred people. In response, the Mars government issues a record bounty of 300 million woolong for the culprits capture. Faye, who was pursuing Lee Sampson, a hacker that was apparently driving the truck, sees the terrorist and the Bebop crew decide to take on the bounty. Each follows different lines of inquiry. Ed, using a tattoo on the attackers wrist, manages to identify him as Vincent Volaju, a former member of a military squad apparently killed in the Titan War. In reality, Vincent was the only survivor of a test involving the pathogen, having been immunized with a test vaccine made an amnesic, he suffers from hallucinations, and his inability to tell dreams from reality eventually drove him insane. ........

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