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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Directed

1. The Animatrix (2003) — Director
2. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) — Director
3. Samurai Champloo (2004) — Director
4. Terror in Resonance (2014) — Director
5. Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (2017) — Director
6. The Vision of Escaflowne (1996) — Director
7. Kid's Story (2003) — Director
8. A Detective Story (2003) — Director
9. CAROLE & TUESDAY (2019) — Director
10. Kids on the Slope (2012) — Director
11. Macross Plus: The Movie (1995) — Director
12. Genius Party (2007) — Director
13. Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991) — Director
14. To Be Hero (2016) — Director
15. Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None (2012) — Director
16. Dirty Pair OVA (1987) — Director
17. Genius Party (2007) — Director
18. Armor Hunter Merowlink (1988) — Director
19. The Animatrix (2003) — Director
20. A Girl Meets a Boy and a Robot (2022) — Director
21. TAISU PROJECT (2024) — Director
22. Edge of Time (2025) — Director
23. Space Dandy : The Cosmic Compilation (2014) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Hoshino Gen no Ongaku Kōron (2022) — VTRゲスト
2. Scrolls to Screen: A Brief History of Anime (2003) — Self