Watanabe, however, made no secret that, in addition to Lupin III, the series paid subtle tribute to his favorite American films and series, which were shown in Japan during the 1970s and ' 80s including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( the relationship between Spike and Jet ), Bruce Lee films ( Spike's martial-arts practice ), films with blues or jazz soundtracks ( the music of the series ), as well as Blaxploitation films ( the series has a very racially diverse supporting cast ).

She has written scores for famous animated works, including Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Sakamichi no Apollon, and is the most trusted composer by veteran and new-wave directors such as Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichiro Watanabe and Shoji Kawamori.

Watanabe has two biological children and an adopted son.

Hiroko Watanabe lives in Kobe and has lost her fiancé Itsuki Fujii in a mountain climbing accident.

Ra's al Ghul has been featured in various media adaptions, most notably the 2005 Christopher Nolan film, Batman Begins, where he was portrayed by actors Liam Neeson and Ken Watanabe ( the latter being an expendable decoy ).

Rakugo has been described as " a sitcom with one person playing all the parts " by Noriko Watanabe, assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Baruch College.

In addition to Grusin's jazz, film work and other collaborations, he has also lent his talents as a producer / arranger / musician to numerous albums by artists including Paul Simon, Sérgio Mendes, Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau, Patti Austin, Dave Valentin and Sadao Watanabe.

Kanji Watanabe ( Takashi Shimura ) is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for thirty years.

After learning he has stomach cancer and less than a year to live, Watanabe attempts to come to terms with his impending death.

Watanabe has an even lower release point than the typical submarine pitcher, dropping his pivot knee so low that it scrapes the ground.

Watanabe has shown (;) that for any set of variables one can construct a polytomic ( i. e., n-ary ) tree representing a series of variable agglomerations in which the ultimate " total " correlation among the complete variable set is the sum of the " partial " correlations exhibited by each agglomerating subset ( see figure ).

' Just one writer, the doyen of the genre, Shōichi Watanabe ( 渡部昇一 ), has hundreds of articles and volumes on Japanese culture, society, politics, history, and identity to his credit, all replete with judgments about ' the Japanese.

A 37-year-old Toru Watanabe has just arrived in Hamburg, Germany.

In addition to his musical career, Watanabe has also published six photography books in Japan.

Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe has stated that he would like to develop a hybrid electric version of the Tundra.

He was given the position with a recommendation from Yomiuri Giants owner Tsuneo Watanabe, showing that the rift between him and his former team has healed over time.

Junya Watanabe, Kawakubo's former apprentice, started his own line in the early 1990s and has attained much attention in the fashion business in his own right.

In Singapore he has appeared in many Mediacorp Channel 5 and Art Central productions including: My Sassy Neighbour where he plays the character Mr. Watanabe ( which is coincidentally the last name of the character he played in Power Rangers Ninja Storm ), Six Weeks, Parental Guidance, 9 Lives, Mental, The Secret Lives of Sorry Stars and the telemovie: House of Harmony playing opposite Maggie Q as her husband Michael Lee.

The college has produced a number of prominent fashion designers working internationally, among which are Kenzo Takada, Junya Watanabe and Yohji Yamamoto.

Despite writing the fewest song lyrics, Okui was credited with the majority of the group's music, with 69 of the band's 118 song credits ( and nearly all of their released singles ), while Nakayama has the primary credit for 18 songs, Konno for 14, Watanabe for 8, Tomita for 1.

Nakayama has sole songwriting credit for 7 songs, Konno for 6, Okui for 6 ( including one instrumental ), Watanabe for 4, and Tomita for 1.

* Japanese — Shinichiro Watanabe: Cowboy Bebop ( 1998 anime ; twentieth episode, “ Pierrot le fou ”, references both the character and the Godard film above, this section, under French ).

The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor ( Ken Watanabe ), Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design and Best Sound ( Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Jeff Wexler ).

is a 1985 Japanese comedy film by director Juzo Itami, starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto and Ken Watanabe.

In Cowboy Bebop, for example, Watanabe mixes classic cowboy western with 1940s / 1950s New York City film noir, Jazz music and Hong Kong action movies, and sets the entire series in space.

Watanabe was introduced to most Western audiences by the 2003 film The Last Samurai.

Watanabe appeared in the 2005 film Memoirs of a Geisha, playing Chairman Iwamura.

It wasn't until an " unidentified guest " accompanying Watanabe at a New York premiere of his film Sayuri seen in an Associated Press photo was found to be Minami that their marriage was publicly announced.

UHF is a 1989 American comedy film starring " Weird Al " Yankovic, David Bowe, Fran Drescher, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards, Gedde Watanabe, Billy Barty, Anthony Geary, Emo Philips and Trinidad Silva, to whose memory the film is dedicated.

Gedde Watanabe ( born Gary Watanabe, June 26, 1955, Ogden, Utah ) is an American theatre, film, and television actor.

Instead of writing the letter about the drawing, the film ends with Female Itsuki narrating " Dear Watanabe Hiroko, I am too embarrassed to send this letter ".

* Shanghai ( 2010 film ), Hollywood film directed by Mikael Håfström and starring John Cusack and Ken Watanabe

His next feature film was the drama Memoirs of a Geisha based on the best-selling book of the same name by Arthur Golden starring Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe.

Watanabe was also involved in the film industry as a screenwriter, production designer and art director.

" Toho reluctantly licensed Devil Hunter Yohko to ADV, making the title ADV's first ; even though Shozo Watanabe, the general manager of the Los Angeles office of Toho, expressed concern that ADV would not be able to handle the distribution of the film, Toho was unable to find another distributor, so it selected ADV.

The film stars Kenichi Matsuyama as Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi as Naoko and Kiko Mizuhara as Midori.

* Julia Kato as Kira Watanabe, Coco's assistant, She marries Chaz at the end of the film and becomes Chuckie's new mother.

Sebasstian had worked with Watanabe on several short film project previously as both actor and sound designer.

In 1995, director Shunji Iwai cast Miho in the starring dual roles of Hiroko Watanabe and Itsuki Fujii in the film Love Letter.

Describing the impact of the United States ' occupation of Japan from the perspective of the inhabitants of a small, rural island community, the film featured the big screen debut of actor Ken Watanabe.

The film's music, produced by Shinichiro Watanabe, as well as the score by Seiichi Yamamoto includes an image song by Fayray and piano performed by Yōko Kanno.