Your typical Anime with cars, action, women, crazy policemen, and invulnerable hero. The main hero, Bean Bandit, is a bit too powerful ( is he supposed to be a robot ?) His car is crazy in a good way and basically this film exists on its car chase scenes.
9 Reviews
"I drive."
Jeremy_Urquhart28 February 2024
The main character needs more than a stun gun to the neck to wake up in the morning, and I thought that was a nice and efficient way of making him instantly relatable.
Riding Bean is a fun blend of comedy and action that gets pretty bloody at times. Its plot revolves around a duo that's set up to take the fall for a kidnapping scheme, only they catch onto it and try to make their way out of the whole scenario, preferably with a large sum of cash that's also tied to it all.
It's an excuse to have lots of car chases and over-the-top characters; I guess when the runtime clocks in at well under an hour, you kind of need everyone to be pretty simple character-wise, but it mostly works. It's a good way to spend some time, and never takes itself too seriously while never slowing down; it's pretty fun.
Riding Bean is a fun blend of comedy and action that gets pretty bloody at times. Its plot revolves around a duo that's set up to take the fall for a kidnapping scheme, only they catch onto it and try to make their way out of the whole scenario, preferably with a large sum of cash that's also tied to it all.
It's an excuse to have lots of car chases and over-the-top characters; I guess when the runtime clocks in at well under an hour, you kind of need everyone to be pretty simple character-wise, but it mostly works. It's a good way to spend some time, and never takes itself too seriously while never slowing down; it's pretty fun.
"Eat, drink, smoke, watch TV and gamble. It's a tradition."
DarthBill27 April 2004
Based on the manga created by Kenichi Sonoda (who did the mechanical designs for the original Bubblegum Crisis and later created Gunsmith Cats in response to Riding Bean being canceled), this one shot OAV chronicles the antics, shenanigans and misadventures of the title character, [Riding] Bean Bandit.
Bean Bandit, AKA: the Road Buster, is a superhuman outlaw courier who transports pretty much anyone/everyone and anything/everything for the right price (except drugs). His partner in crime is Rally Vincent, a woman with a big gun and a sharp eye on their bank account. Naturally, they're not really villains, they're just good hearted people on the wrong side of the law. When Bean is asked to transport the daughter of a millionaire, he and Rally get framed for kidnapping by a child molester named Semmerling and her little girl slave Carrie. This begins a high speed conspiracy chase with Bean determined to settle the score and reunite the girl with her father. Relentlessly pursuing Bean is Percy, a deranged police officer who's obsessed with either capturing Bean any which way he can or killing him.
Good mindless testosterone fun. Bean's such a lovable goof-ball that it really breaks your heart that his antics were discontinued. A redesigned Rally later became the heroine of "Gunsmith Cats" and a slightly different looking Bean made a few appearances in her alternate universe books.
"My my my, all those nice men pointing guns at us. I wonder what they all do when they're not so busy." - Rally Vincent
"Eat, drink, smoke, watch TV and gamble. It's a tradition." - Bean Bandit
Bean Bandit, AKA: the Road Buster, is a superhuman outlaw courier who transports pretty much anyone/everyone and anything/everything for the right price (except drugs). His partner in crime is Rally Vincent, a woman with a big gun and a sharp eye on their bank account. Naturally, they're not really villains, they're just good hearted people on the wrong side of the law. When Bean is asked to transport the daughter of a millionaire, he and Rally get framed for kidnapping by a child molester named Semmerling and her little girl slave Carrie. This begins a high speed conspiracy chase with Bean determined to settle the score and reunite the girl with her father. Relentlessly pursuing Bean is Percy, a deranged police officer who's obsessed with either capturing Bean any which way he can or killing him.
Good mindless testosterone fun. Bean's such a lovable goof-ball that it really breaks your heart that his antics were discontinued. A redesigned Rally later became the heroine of "Gunsmith Cats" and a slightly different looking Bean made a few appearances in her alternate universe books.
"My my my, all those nice men pointing guns at us. I wonder what they all do when they're not so busy." - Rally Vincent
"Eat, drink, smoke, watch TV and gamble. It's a tradition." - Bean Bandit
Goofy fast paced fun.
jimvandemoter-502367 December 2020
This is one of the first anime flicks I ever saw. I bought it on tape and wore it out. So many have already pointed out the inside jokes pointing to the Blues Brothers and other things. One thing nobody's pointed out is Semmerling is the name of the character and also the compact pistol she uses. It's a real gun, Semmerling LM4 pistols are the smallest .45 caliber semi automatic pistol made. They are no longer in production but were when this show was made.
Percy my Man
Evil-Lee-6665 June 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This has got to be one of the all time great Animations. Everything about this short but effective Movie had me gripped from the very start to its all to early ending. Bean Bandit is a bad guy but he has some sense of morality. I loved all the little nods to the Blues Brothers like the Car registration numbers & some of the chase scenes. My fav character is Percy, the relentless & unintentionally funny Cop who shouts at his Subordinates throughout the entire Movie & he causes so much devastation with his Ford Mustang, more than Bean Bandit in the end. Bean Bandits car is amazing & is more like a James Bond vehicle with all the gadgets & transformations it can do. I can not recommend this Movie enough I would go as far as to say even if you don't like Anime you will like this Movie.
A movie for car chase fans
Gourry Gabriev16 September 2002
This is a movie that is almost all action from start to finish. Our unlikely hero Bean Bandit and his sexy partner Rally Vincent keep us entertained all through the movie with non stop thrills and chases. Kenichi Sonoda, the creator is a big fan of American action movies, and incorporated that style into the movie. The scene when the chase goes under the elevated railroad tracks is taken almost frame for frame from the Blues Brothers. (NOTE: watch the licence plates of the cars and you may fins some gags on them. )
Nice fun OVA
Sabre_Wolf23 September 2013
Warning: Spoilers
I loved this OVA it was fantastic while it was short but nonetheless enjoyable with the character development, some humour as well as the driving/action scenes of this fabulous OVA.
This introduced me to the character of Bean Bandit who was so awesome and just lived by his own rules but had a protective instinct for children and J Patrick did a fantastic job voicing him in the English dub.
Also Bean's nemesis Percy was amusing determined to do anything to bust Bean. Also the main antagonist Simmerling was an interesting villain.
All in all a nice, good and very fun OVA.
This introduced me to the character of Bean Bandit who was so awesome and just lived by his own rules but had a protective instinct for children and J Patrick did a fantastic job voicing him in the English dub.
Also Bean's nemesis Percy was amusing determined to do anything to bust Bean. Also the main antagonist Simmerling was an interesting villain.
All in all a nice, good and very fun OVA.
i've always wondered why this interesting anime movie wasn't shown in theaters. love it.
josephurrutia29 April 2024
Whenever i first seen gunsmith cats, which is a sequel to riding bean, it turns out to be a pretty good buddy cop action comedy anime film, so i took a look at the first one on youtube and i kinda liked it. My favorite characters are Percy Bacharach and Dick Ryan, two dimwitted police inspectors who are following bean and rally around in pursuit and the chase goes on and on until they encountered the main villain semmerling, who framed both bean bandit and rally vincent for the theft of million dollars and the kidnapping of chelsea grimwood, the daughter of a rich man mr. Grimwood. So bean did his best to rescue carrie, defeat semmerling and bring Chelsea back to her father safety without any harm. And the ending is as perfect as a cherry on the top of whipped cream. So please go check it out if you like anime. I highly recommend it.
Ultimate Demolition chase movie
Kai-1813 November 1999
This movie rocks. Car chases, explosions and everything else that make an action movie good is in this. It's a fun watch about a guy whose a criminal courier whose just taken a bad job. But now he's going to $2,000,000. Plus interest! Great movie but still I prefer Gun Smith Cats. And hey: Rally Vincent is in this movie. (talk about continuity)
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