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Cowboy Bebop

Cowboy Bebop

by Shinichiro Watanabe

Japan

Animation

 

Cowboy Bebop

Director: Shinichiro Watanabe

Script: Heiko Nobumoto

Animation Director: T. Kawamoto

Art Director: Shiho Takeuchi

Artistic Director: Atushi Morikawa

Camera: Yoichi Ogami

Sound: K. Kobayashi

Music: Yoko Kanno

Production: Masuo Ueda, Masahiko Minami, Minoru Takanashi

Distribution:
Columbia Tristar Films
131 avenue de Wagram
75017 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1.44.40.62.30
Fax: 0033 1.44.40.60.00

Year: 2001

Screening: 2004

35 mm, Colour, 115 min
French Version

Mars Planet, year 2071. A tanker explodes in the cater of Alba City. Dozens of people are killed and hundreds are contaminated by a mysterious disease. Suspecting a terrorist biological attack, the authorities promise a huge reward for capturing those responsible. Bounty hunters of Bebop - a martial art freak with dubious past, a former policeman, a femme fatale, a young genius hacker and a performing dog - all being broke, take this opportunity to make money and start their inquiry. A shadow, a poison capsule, a pharmaceutical consortium, a tattoo, a suspicious dead body and a special military unit are the pieces of the puzzle to be gathered for a chance to penetrate the sec ret.

Cowboy Bebop succeeds to skilfully mix the worlds of western and science fiction films: heroes are bounty hunters evolving in a spatial universe. Its originality, its attaching characters, its sense of humour and its technical exceptional qualities turn Cowboy Bebop into a film with real artistic achievement.

 

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