Shinichiro Watanabe

Shinichiro Watanabe is a director, born 1965.

Shinichirō Watanabe is a Japanese anime television and film director, best known for directing the critically acclaimed and commercially successful anime series Cowboy Bebop, Macross Plus, Samurai Champloo, Space Dandy, Terror in Resonance, and Carole & Tuesday. Considered an auteur of Japanese animation by film and television critics, Watanabe's work is characterized by evocative uses of music, mature themes, and the incorporation of multiple film genres.