Shin'ichirō Watanabe

Shinichirō Watanabe (渡辺 信一郎, Watanabe Shin'ichirō; born 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, 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 genres.