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Shinichiro Watanabe

Writer, Director, Producer, Composer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn May 24, 1965 (60 years)
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

  • Cowboy Bebop
  • Samurai Champloo
  • Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - Knockin' on Heaven's Door
  • The Animatrix
  • Terror in Resonance
  • Cowboy Bebop (2021)
  • Blade Runner: Black Out 2022
  • Lazarus
  • Space Dandy
  • Macross Plus

Filmography

2025
Lazarus (TV Series) · as Screenplay
2019
Carole & Tuesday (TV Series)
2017
2016
TO BE HERO (TV Series)
2014
Space Dandy (TV Series)
2012
Kids on the Slope (TV Series) · as Screenplay
2007
Genius Party · as Screenplay
2007
Genius Party (TV Series)
2004
Samurai Champloo (TV Series)
2003
The Animatrix (TV Series)
1998
Cowboy Bebop (TV Series)
1991
Capricorn · as Screenplay

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