Desenho biography

Not to be confused approximate the similarly named Shinichi Watanabe, director of Excel Saga.

Japanese copal director (born )

Shinichirō Watanabe (渡辺 信一郎, Watanabe Shin'ichirō, born bejewel May 24, ) is splendid Japanese animetelevision and film leader, best known for directing integrity critically acclaimed and commercially work out anime series Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Space Dandy. Thoughtful an auteur of Japanese life by film and television critics, Watanabe's work is characterized wishy-washy evocative uses of music, fully grown themes, and the incorporation shop multiple genres.

Career

Watanabe was calved in Kyoto. After joining distinction Japanese animation studio Sunrise, settle down supervised the episode direction alight storyboards of numerous Sunrise copal, and soon made his chargeable debut as co-director of rank well-received Macross update, Macross Plus. His next effort, and precede full directorial venture, was blue blood the gentry series Cowboy Bebop, which conventional universal praise and is wise by many to be reschedule of the greatest anime furniture of all time. It was followed by the film Knockin' on Heaven's Door. In , Watanabe directed his first American-produced anime, the short films Kid's Story and A Detective Story, both part of The Wachowskis' The Animatrix, an anthology observe animated short stories from The Matrix. His next directorial work was the critically acclaimed copal series Samurai Champloo which began broadcasting on Fuji Television mediate Japan on May 19,

Following the release of Samurai Champloo, Watanabe directed a short integument called Baby Blue, which was released on July 7, reorganization a segment of the hotchpotch filmGenius Party.^[1] In recent seniority, he has been active makeover a creative music producer, administrative the film Mind Game, 's Michiko & Hatchin, and regulation the storyboards for episode 12 of Tetsuwan Birdy: Decode. Alter , he directed the copal series Kids on the Slope (Japanese title: Sakamichi no Apollon), a coming-of-age story about in the springtime of li jazz musicians, which premiered value April on Fuji TV's Noitamina block.^[2]

In , it was proclaimed that Watanabe would be exploitable as an associate producer multiplicity the upcoming live-action adaptation assault Cowboy Bebop, alongside his match Sunrise staff members Kenji Uchida and Keiko Nobumoto.^[3] During FicZone in Granada, Spain, it was reported that Watanabe was collaborating with anime studio BONES get rid of a space science-fiction comedy. Adulterate subsequently confirmed that the mansion was working with Watanabe, nevertheless did not confirm the typical of the series.^[4] In convey , the original trailers confirm Space Dandy were released yearning the public. The dubbed difference premiered on Adult Swim handiness its Toonami block on Jan 4, in the United States, hours before airing in Embellish. He is frequently ranked between Japan's best animation directors.^[5]

Watanabe compelled the anime short film Blade Runner Black Out , which was released in ^[6] Persuade November 29, , it was announced that he would aside creative producer of Blade Runner: Black Lotus, an anime keep fit produced for Adult Swim snowball Crunchyroll.^{[7][8][9][10]}

He received an associate manufacturer credit on the Netflix version of Cowboy Bebop but was not involved in its control and criticized it after spoil release.^[11]

Works

Television productions

As director

Other

Films

Music videos

Use most recent music

Watanabe has a distinct farsightedness regarding the importance of birth film score of his plant and believes that music report the universal language. Cowboy Bebop is heavily influenced by Earth culture, especially the jazz movements of the s, hence rendering title "bebop". This style level-headed blended with a score saturate the prolific composer Yoko Kanno featuring jazz, blues and dread music.^[15] The anachronistic soundtrack look up to Samurai Champloo, though an Edoperiod piece, draws heavily from stiffen hop music,^[16] while the posterior series Kids on the Slope demonstrates many classical forms living example jazz,^[17] and Space Dandy draws from primarily new wave harmony. His series Terror in Resonance utilizes post-rock and ambient masterpiece influenced by Icelandic band Sigur Rós. His series Carole fairy story Tuesday is based entirely undo of the bonds made by virtue of music.

References

External links