---
title: 'Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Shin''ichirō Watanabe'
released: '2001-09-01'
runtime_minutes: 116
genres:
  - 'Action'
  - 'Science Fiction'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/cowboy-bebop-the-movie-2001'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275277/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)

2001 · 116 min · Action, Science Fiction, Crime · Japan

Original title: カウボーイビバップ 天国の扉

## Synopsis

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie  is a 2001 Japanese anime science fiction action film, based on the 1998 anime series Cowboy Bebop created by Sunrise and Hajime Yatate. 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Shin'ichirō Watanabe](https://cinepixo.com/people/shin-ichiro-watanabe)
- **Screenplay:** [Hajime Yatate](https://cinepixo.com/people/hajime-yatate), [Keiko Nobumoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/keiko-nobumoto)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Yoko Kanno](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoko-kanno)
- **Producer:** [Masahiko Minami](https://cinepixo.com/people/masahiko-minami), [Masuo Ueda](https://cinepixo.com/people/masuo-ueda)
- **Editor:** [Shūichi Kakesu](https://cinepixo.com/people/shuichi-kakesu)

## Cast

- [Unshō Ishizuka](https://cinepixo.com/people/unsho-ishizuka) as Jet Black
- [Tsutomu Isobe](https://cinepixo.com/people/tsutomu-isobe) as Vincent Volaju
- [Ai Kobayashi](https://cinepixo.com/people/ai-kobayashi)
- [Megumi Hayashibara](https://cinepixo.com/people/megumi-hayashibara) as Faye Valentine
- [Kōichi Yamadera](https://cinepixo.com/people/koichi-yamadera) as Spike Spiegel
- [Aoi Tada](https://cinepixo.com/people/aoi-tada) as Edward
- [Mickey Curtis](https://cinepixo.com/people/mickey-curtis)
- [Renji Ishibashi](https://cinepixo.com/people/renji-ishibashi)

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Official site: http://cowboybebop.org/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/cowboy-bebop-the-movie-2001
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