Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Original Title	カウボーイビバップ 天国の扉 (Kaubōi Bibappu: Tengoku no Tobira)
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio	Animaze
Voice Director	Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Translation & Adaptation	Rika Takahashi Marc Handler
Recorded	2002
Dub Country	United States
Original Country	Japan
Year	2001

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, known in Japan as Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (カウボーイビバップ 天国の扉 Kaubōi Bibappu: Tengoku no Tobira), is a Japanese animated film directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, based on the television series Cowboy Bebop.

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie takes place between episodes 22 and 23 of the original TV series. It was released to theaters in Japan on September 1, 2001 and in the United States on August 11, 2002 by Destination Films.

Synopsis Cocky Spike Spiegel and the crew of his spaceship, Bebop, an intrepid band of bounty hunters, land on Mars in the year 2071 chasing an enormous cash reward. The four-person team, also including looming cyborg Jet Black, fearless Faye Valentine and tech expert Edward, are in search of ex-military officer Vincent. The former hero has become a biological terrorist with an arsenal of devastating nano-bots that he'll let loose on Alba City on the night before Halloween if his demands aren't met.

Cast

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
	Spike Spiegel	Kōichi Yamadera	Steve Blum
	Jet Black	Unshō Ishizuka	Beau Billingslea
	Faye Valentine	Megumi Hayashibara	Wendee Lee
	Edward Fong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV (Ed)	Aoi Tada	Melissa Fahn
	Vincent Volaju	Tsutomu Isobe	Daran Norris
	Lt. Electra Ovila	Ai Kobayashi	Jennifer Hale
	Lee Sampson	Yūji Ueda	Dave Wittenberg
	Rasheed	Mickey Curtis	Nicholas Guest
	Judy	Miki Nagasawa	Lia Sargent
	Punch	Tsutomu Taruki	Paul St. Peter
	Rengie	Renji Ishibashi	Tom Wyner
	Cashier	Hōko Kuwashima	Michelle Ruff
	Old Woman	Kujira	Barbara Goodson
	Mark Rather	Takashi Nagasako	Paul St. Peter
	Chris Riley	Kazusa Murai	Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
	Hoffman	Yūsaku Yara	J. Grant Albrecht
	Shadkins	Kazuhiko Inoue	Jerry Gelb
	Antonio	Jin Hirao	Kevin Seymour
	Jobim	Hiroshi Naka
	Carlos	Toshihiko Nakajima	Steve Kramer
	ISSP Captain	Kinryū Arimoto	Murphy Dunne
	Antique Store Owner	Eisuke Yoda	Bob Papenbrook
	Bob	Yutaka Nakano	John Snyder
	Murata	Nobuo Tobita	Michael Reisz
	Colonel	Hidekatsu Shibata	Mike Reynolds
	Harris	Jūrōta Kosugi	Mirron E. Willis
	Steve	Rikiya Koyama	Kirk Thornton
	Laughing Bull	Takehiro Koyama	Michael Gregory

Additional Voices

Kirk Baily Ewan Chung Michael Desante Dorothy Elias-Fahn Said Faraj Michael Forest Crispin Freeman Leslie Hicks William Frederick Knight Lex Lang Michael Lindsay Peter Lurie Jad Mager

Lynsey McLeod Randall Montgomery Peggy O'Neal Joe Ochman Jamieson Price Ron Roggé Brianne Siddall Peter Spellos Carol Stanzione Doug Stone Fred Toma Dave Wittenberg

Notes

• Unlike the main series, the dub of the movie was union due to the contribution of the voice actress Jennifer Hale and voice actor Nicholas Guest. Similarly, unlike the main series, the voice cast was properly credited for this reason.
• Crispin Freeman was initially cast in the role of Vincent Volaju, but was later recast to Daran Norris as Freeman's original voice was deemed too young for the character.

Transmission

Date(s)	Channel	Country
2005	Cartoon Network (Adult Swim)	United States

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Region	Country
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment	2003		1 NTSC	United States
Image Entertainment	2010
	2011		A DVB-T
FUNimation Entertainment	2016
	2018

External Links

• Cowboy Bebop: The Movie at the Internet Movie Database
• Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia