Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
May 24, 1965 (60 years old)
Kyoto, Japan
Also Known As
- Shinichirô Watanabe
- Shinichirō Watanabe
- Shin'ichirou WATANABE
- Shin'ichirô Watanabe
Shinichiro Watanabe
Biography
Shinichiro Watanabe (渡辺 信一郎 Watanabe Shin'ichirō, born May 24, 1965) is a Japanese anime television and film director. He is best known for directing the critically acclaimed and commercially successful anime series Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Space Dandy.
Watanabe is known for incorporating multiple genres into his anime creations. In Cowboy Bebop, for example, Watanabe blends classic cowboy western with 1960s/1970s New York City film noir, jazz/blues music, Hong Kong action movies, and sets the entire series in space. In his later work, Samurai Champloo, Watanabe unites the cultures of Okinawa, hip hop, modern-day Japan, and chanbara.
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Known For
Directing
Lazarus
Series Director, Screenplay, Storyboard Artist, Opening/Ending Animation, Director, Creator
2025
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
Creative Producer
2021
Sonny Boy
Music Consultant
2021
Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway
Storyboard Artist
2021
CAROLE & TUESDAY
Supervising Producer, Writer, Storyboard Artist, Original Concept, Original Series Creator, Original Story, Director
2019
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022
Writer, Director
2017
To Be Hero
Series Director, Director, Writer
2016
Terror in Resonance
Director, Storyboard Artist, Original Concept, Original Story
2014
Space Dandy
Series Director, Writer
2014
Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None
Writer, Director
2012
Kids on the Slope
Director, Storyboard Artist
2012
Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
Music Producer
2012