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Cowboy Bebop: Knockin on Heaven's Door Cowboy Bebop: Knockin on Heaven's Door |
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Cowboy Bebop: Knockin on Heaven's Door reunites Bebop fans with their favorite crew of bounty hunters. Unfortunately, the movie is NOT a continuation of the TV series. Rather, it takes place between TV episodes 22 and 23. However, with beautiful animation, fast-paced story, and more awesome music by Yoko Kanno, Knockin on Heaven's Door is a movie you don't want to miss! The Year is 2071. The place: Mars. Some mysterious person has attacked a small area with a bio-terrorism weapon (basically a big tanker truck filled with some mysterious agent that kills everyone who comes in contact with it). A whopping 300,000,000 woolong bounty has been placed on the head of the main suspect, a man named Vincent. Faye manages to get a glimpse of the mystery man, and with that, the Bebop crew has a jump on finding him and recovering the bounty. Spike, Jet, and the gang decide that this is a prize worth going after. Along the way, Spike repeatedly encounters a mysterious woman named Electra, who is also after Vincent for her own personal reasons. Who is Vincent? Why did he set off the bioterrorist weapon, and what exactly is it? Who is Electra, and what is her connection to Vincent? These things baffle just about everyone during the film. Spike learns that he actually has a lot of similarities to Vincent, and his outlook on life is defined a little bot more after encountering the man. The movie follows the action as Vincent plots one final bio-terrorism attack, and the Bebop crew race against time to stop him and get the money. I really enjoyed the Cowboy Bebop movie! While it doesn't really continue the story from the end of the series (which would be kind of difficult to do) it was sort of strange to watch all my favorite Bebop characters doing their bounty-hunting thing again after so long a gap between the end of the TV series and the release of the movie. The film is beautifully animated, the story is fast-paced, with some really amazing arial fight scenes and hand-to-hand combat scenes, and the music by Yoko Kanno is stunning as ever. |
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STAFF
Animation Director: ........................................Toshihiro Kawamoto
Character Designer: ........................................Toshihiro Kawamoto
Story by: ..................................................Hajime Yatate*
Directed by: ...............................................Shinnichiro Watanabe
Screenplay by: .............................................Noriko Nobumoto
Mechanics Designed by: .....................................Kimitoshi Yamane
Sets Designed by: ..........................................Shiho Takeuchi
Mechanical Design: .........................................Kimitoshi Yamane
Mechanical Animation Director: .............................Masami Goto
Art Director: ..............................................Atsushi Morikawa
Color Design: ..............................................Shihoko Nakayama
Music by: ..................................................Yoko Kannno
Distributed by: ............................................SONY Pictures Entertainment
Produced by: ...............................................Sunrise, Bones, Bandai Visual
* Hajime Yatate is a pseudonym that represents a group of staff members at Sunrise