Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Japanese: カウボーイビバップ 天国の扉, Hepburn: Kaubōi Bibappu Tengoku no Tobira; lit. 'Cowboy Bebop: Heaven's Door') is a 2001 science fiction action film, based on the 1998 Japanese anime series Cowboy Bebop created and produced by Sunrise. Several staff from the original series returned to work on the film, including director Shinichirō Watanabe, writer Keiko Nobumoto, character designer and animation director Toshihiro Kawamoto and composer Yoko Kanno. The Japanese and English voice casts also reprised their roles. Set between episodes 22 and 23 of the original series, the plot centers on a mysterious terrorist planning to exterminate the human population of Mars by releasing a virus, with the bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop working to capture the terrorist and prevent the attack. The film was conceived by Watanabe as an extension of his work on the television series, in which he had treated each episode as a miniature film. As not to alienate existing fans, much...

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