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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (劇場版 カウボーイビバップ 天国の扉, Gekijōban Kaubōi Bibappu: Tengoku no Tobira?, titled Cowboy Bebop: Heaven's Door in English), known internationally as Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, is a 2001 animated film directed by Shinichirō Watanabe. The screenplay was written by Keiko Nobumoto, based on the Cowboy Bebop television series created by Sunrise. The plot centers on Spike Spiegel and his crew as they find a criminal who is planning to release a virus on Mars. The title of the movie is taken from the Bob Dylan song of the same name. The character Vincent is based around the musician.[1]

Opening on September 1, 2001 in Japan and in the U.S. on August 11, 2002, the film grossed over $3 million in Japan[2] and received positive reviews.

Plot

The year is 2071, a few days before Halloween. A deadly virus is being released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued a 300 million woolong reward, the largest bounty in history, for the capture of whoever is behind it. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop; Spike, Faye, Jet and Ed, take the case with hopes of cashing in the great bounty. But the mystery surrounding the man responsible, Vincent, goes deeper than they ever imagined, and they aren't the only ones hunting him; the original creators of the virus have dispatched Electra to deal with Vincent and take out anyone who may stumble on the truth behind him. As the hunt for the man with no past and no future continues to escalate, the fate of mankind rests with the Bebop crew, a responsibility they aren't so sure they can handle.

Characters and voice cast
Main article: Cowboy Bebop characters

When asked by an interviewer which character he empathized with "the best" or on which character he could "best project yourself" Watanabe responded by saying "That's a difficult question." He added that he empathized with all of his characters and that he has to simultaneously "keep them all at arm's length" or else he could not "create with them." Watanabe added that there are "bits of me" in every single character.[3]

Original English dub Role
Kōichi Yamadera Steven Blum Spike Spiegel
Megumi Hayashibara Wendee Lee Faye Valentine
Unshō Ishizuka Beau Billingslea Jet Black
Aoi Tada Melissa Fahn Ed
Tsutomu Isobe Daran Norris Vincent Volaju
Ai Kobayashi Jennifer Hale Electra Ovilo
Mickey Curtis Nicholas Guest Rasheed
Yuji Ueda Dave Wittenberg Lee Sampson