Shinichiro Watanabe Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Shinichiro Watanabe Trailers
Total trailers found: 17
03 June 2003
A short documentary on Japanese animation featured on the DVD for The Animatrix (2003).
09 June 2022
Having lost her memory, The Girl wanders alone in a desert of ruins. She encounters The Robot, who has also seemed to lose its memory, and The Boy seeking the Crystal of Time.
11 June 2021
Twelve years after Char's rebellion, Hathaway Noa leads an insurgency against Earth Federation, but meeting an enemy officer and a mysterious woman alters his fate.
09 May 2003
Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world's leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japanese anime to provide the background of the Matrix universe and the conflict between man and machines.
01 September 2001
The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued the largest bounty in history, for the capture of whoever is behind it.
21 December 2012
A Corgi can certainly dream. Taking a break from the frequent antics his colleagues get him into, Bebop crew mate Ein envisions himself sipping a tropical beverage on the beach side and scuba diving with Edward amid a barrier reef.
06 October 1995
Three decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, the U.N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming fighter aircraft by running tests on the colony planet Eden.
30 January 2026
Haunted by past trauma, Hathaway Noa is drawn to a mysterious girl named Gigi Andalucia, whose strange powers stir memories within him.
12 December 2012
When three bounty hunters accidentally meet in a bar, their stark personalities begin to clash, turning into a three way gun fight.
26 September 2017
This animated short revolves around the events causing an electrical systems failure on the west coast of the US.
07 July 2007
The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration.
04 April 2003
A private detective is hired to find the elusive computer hacker "Trinity." Part of the Animatrix collection of animated shorts in the Matrix universe.
03 June 2003
A high school student is haunted by thoughts of "The Matrix" and a person named "Neo".
10 August 2024
An animation anthology film project telling four interlinked tales of animated sci-fi and fantasy by directors from Japan, China and New Zealand that talks about war, life, love and what we are as human.
15 June 2025
The magical cosmic energy "Taisu" flew into the ocean and merged with the toy girl in the crystal ball on the bottom of the sea, becoming a girl "Akira" who could move in the water.
05 July 2014
Space Dandy: The Cosmic Compilation is a special feature-length edition of the hit sci-fi comedy anime.
