![]() Spike works with a rag tag crew that sometimes has trouble tolerating each other. He lives in the year 2071 when old cars and new spacecraft operate side by side and people live on Mars. The main character is Spike Spiegel, a tough-tender bounty hunter nursing a broken heart. It’s like an anime take on Blade Runner in which a Sam Spade style anti-hero is time warped into a futuristic city-it’s the familiar made fresh. But then it gives the concoction a uniquely Asian spin. From America, Cowboy Bebop draws on everything from film noir to westerns, Sam Peckinpah to Dirty Harry, pulp fiction to jazz. The show offers a delirious collision of styles and influences. The anime series debuted on Japanese TV in 1998 and delivered 26 revved-up episodes that make up one of the best anime series ever. If you have never seen an anime before then make this the one to pop your cherry. Welcome back to the KPBS Cinema Junkie podcast, I’m Beth Accomando.Ĭowboy Bebop is my all-time favorite anime and this weekend the Ken Cinema is showing the movie as it’s midnight film. ![]()
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