is a Japanese anime director and writer. He is most well-known for the television anime series Cowboy Bebop. Watanabe is noted for blending together multiple genres, such as in Cowboy Bebop, where classic cowboy western mixes with 1940s/1950s New York City film noir, Hong Kong action movies, among other influences, which is set in space. In his later work, Samurai Champloo, Watanabe mixes the cultures of Okinawa, hip-hop, modern-day Japan, and samurai. Career After joining the Japanese animation studio Sunrise, Watanabe worked as an assistant producer and, following that, made his directorial debut as co-director of the well-received Macross update, Macross Plus. His next effort was the television series Cowboy Bebop, followed by the 2001 film, Knockin' on Heaven's Door . In 2003, Watanabe directed his first American produced anime, the short films Kid's Story and

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