FILM DIRECTOR

Shinichirō Watanabe

1965 - Today

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Shinichirō Watanabe (渡辺 信一郎, Watanabe Shin'ichirō, born on May 24, 1965) is a Japanese anime television and film director, best known for directing the critically acclaimed and commercially successful anime series Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Space Dandy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shinichirō Watanabe has received more than 2,186,388 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Shinichirō Watanabe is the 1,244th most popular film director (down from 972nd in 2019), the 1,412th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,150th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Japanese Film Director.

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  • 2.2M

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  • 45.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Shinichirō Watanabes by language

Over the past year Shinichirō Watanabe has had the most page views in the with 246,376 views, followed by Japanese (41,479), and French (22,405). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (311.89%), Galician (43.06%), and Persian (29.62%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Shinichirō Watanabe ranks 1,244 out of 2,041. Before him are Abram Room, Antonio Mercero, Colin Higgins, Lorenza Mazzetti, Sergey Urusevsky, and Cédric Klapisch. After him are José Luis Cuerda, Mario Mattoli, Eric Kripke, Paweł Edelman, Gaston Kaboré, and Kwak Jae-yong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Shinichirō Watanabe ranks 279. Before him are Natalie Dessay, Robert Tappan Morris, José Morais, Anke Engelke, Momoko Sakura, and Ľubomír Moravčík. After him are Matt Biondi, Roschdy Zem, Frank Ordenewitz, Roman Coppola, Sadie Frost, and Mia Zapata.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shinichirō Watanabe ranks 1,412 out of 6,245. Before him are Masami Ihara (1967), Hiroshi Nanami (1972), Hideki Kamiya (1970), Momoko Sakura (1965), Tsutomu Nihei (1971), and Ryo Kawasaki (1947). After him are Maho Shimizu (1960), Tetsuo Hamuro (1917), Daichi Kamada (1996), Takao Kobayashi (1961), Hiromi Hara (1958), and Heath (1968).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Shinichirō Watanabe ranks 50. Before him are Masaaki Yuasa (1965), Shinya Tsukamoto (1960), Kei Kumai (1930), Kihachi Okamoto (1924), Naomi Kawase (1969), and Shunji Iwai (1963). After him are Yōjirō Takita (1955), Ryusuke Hamaguchi (1978), Hiromasa Yonebayashi (1973), Takashi Shimizu (1972), Jun'ichi Kōuchi (1886), and Hiroyuki Imaishi (1971).

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Filmography

The Animatrix
Director
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. The shorts include Final Flight of the Osiris, The Second Renaissance, Kid's Story, Program, World Record, Beyond, A Detective Story and Matriculated.
May 9o 20037.2 / 10
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Director
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. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop; Spike, Faye, Jet and Ed, take the case with hopes of cashing in the bounty. However, the mystery surrounding the man responsible, Vincent, goes deeper than they ever imagined, and they aren't the only ones hunting him.
Sep 1o 20017.704 / 10
カウボーイビバップ
Director
In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters, also referred to as "Cowboys", chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.
8.535 / 10