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Shinichiro Watanabe

Shinichiro Watanabe

Known For Directing
Birthday May 24, 1965 (60)
Birthplace Kyoto, Japan
Popularity 1 (history)
Updated Aug 09, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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 incorporatin ... g 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Animatrix

The Animatrix

2003

Writer

A Detective Story

A Detective Story

2003

Writer

Kid's Story

Kid's Story

2003

Writer

A Detective Story

A Detective Story

2003

Director

Kid's Story

Kid's Story

2003

Director

The Animatrix

The Animatrix

2003

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

Hoshino Gen no Ongaku Kōron

as VTRゲスト

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 11, 2022

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