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Shinichiro Watanabe

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Shinichiro Watanabe

Born May 24, 1965 · 61 years41 titles 17 movies · 24 TV
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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 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Also known as

Shinichirô Watanabe · Shinichirō Watanabe · Shin'ichirou WATANABE · Shin'ichirô Watanabe

Born

May 24, 1965

Kyoto, Japan

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

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Acting credits

27

Directing

21

Writing

18

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

By release / first air year · movie & TV merged

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1985 1 title(s)

1987 1 title(s)

1988 1 title(s)

1991 1 title(s)

1994 1 title(s)

1995 1 title(s)

1996 1 title(s)

1998 1 title(s)

2001 1 title(s)

2003 5 title(s)

2004 1 title(s)

2005 1 title(s)

2006 1 title(s)

2007 2 title(s)

2008 2 title(s)

2011 1 title(s)

2012 4 title(s)

2014 3 title(s)

2016 1 title(s)

2017 1 title(s)

2019 1 title(s)

2021 3 title(s)

2022 2 title(s)

2024 1 title(s)

2025 2 title(s)

2026 1 title(s)