Watanabe wanted to have many racial groups appear in Cowboy Bebop.

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

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.

The leader of the creative team was director Shinichiro Watanabe, most notable at the time for directing the futuristic adventure anime OVA series Macross Plus and Mobile Suit Gundam.

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 ).

It features some of that series ' secondary characters and many of its staff, primarily director Shinichi Watanabe.

The series was originally an in-joke from an episode of Excel Saga ; Watanabe decided to take the in-joke to its most extreme logical conclusion, creating the series.

Poemy also breaks the forth wall by referring to Nabeshin as " the Director ", since Nabeshin is voiced by Shinichi Watanabe himself, the director of the series.

He was played by Ken Watanabe in the popular 1987 NHK series Dokuganryu Masamune.

The manga was adapted into a 13 episode anime series produced by Aniplex and directed by Hiroshi Watanabe as well as a Game Boy game released in 2000 by Messiah ( released only in Japan ).

In 2000 Shinichi Watanabe, director of Excel Saga and Puni Puni Poemy, created an anime series called Dotto!

* Ikitsuki was featured in the fictional anime series Samurai Champloo created by Shinichiro Watanabe of Cowboy Bebop fame.

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 ).

When asked to direct the series, Shinichi Watanabe, though welcome to the opportunity, was cited as saying that he was unsure why he had been chosen, and that after watching previous Tenchi episodes, found the task of envisioning GXP to be " tough ".

The tour for this album featured the group's first visit to Japan with David Benoit in 1989, where they joined the special summer concert series in Tokyo produced by Japanese saxophonist, Sadao Watanabe.

For his work on the SX series, Tadashi Watanabe received the Eckert – Mauchly Award in 1998 and the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award in 2006.

is a Japanese manga series by Taeko Watanabe.

Until the mid-1960s, males vastly outnumbered the handful of females ( for example: Toshiko Ueda, Hideko Mizuno, Masako Watanabe, and Miyako Maki ) amongst the artists working on shōjo manga.

Then, Watanabe was taken the distance for the first time, against Jin-Hyun Chun in Nagoya, Watanabe winning a six round decision.

Watanabe then returned to Japan and won his remaining four bouts for 1981 there, three by knockout.

While Bircher is often considered the inventor of arthroscopy of the knee, the Japanese surgeon Masaki Watanabe, MD receives primary credit for using arthroscopy for interventional surgery.

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 ).

It was also nominated for three Golden Globe Awards: Best Supporting Actor ( Watanabe ), Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama ( Tom Cruise ) and Best Score ( Hans Zimmer ).

The opening theme was " Tenshi no Yubikiri " by Fukuda Mai, and the ending themes were " Yume no Naka e " by Atsuko Enomoto & Chihiro Suzuki for episodes 1 – 24 and 26 and " Kaze Hiita Yoru " by Yuki Watanabe & Maria Yamamoto for episode 25.

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.

When Watanabe failed to defend his title against Khaosai, the WBA stripped him and matched Khaosai against undefeated Eusebio Espinal for the vacant championship on November 21, 1984.

Watanabe is known for blending together

* Gedde Watanabe presents the nerds for each year.

Watanabe is mostly known in Japan for playing samurai, as in the 1987 Dokuganryu Masamune ( One eyed dragon, Masamune ) the 50-episode NHK drama for which he is now best known.

Watanabe formally adopted Minami's son from her previous marriage to director Hitonari Tsuji, and for a time the three of them lived in Los Angeles.

After graduation, Watanabe left Ogden for San Francisco, where he hoped to make his living as a street musician while honing his acting skills.

Watanabe appeared on Sesame Street for some years and had a recurring role on ER from 1998 to 2002.

However, American Girls featured veterans of the all-women band scene including Brie Howard who had played drums for Fanny and Miiko Watanabe who played bass with the Screamin ' Sirens.

Watanabe had a reputation as a moderate, and many of the rebel officers of the February 26 Incident respected Mazaki, and blamed Watanabe for the personnel change.

For failing to defend the title against the WBA's # 1 contender Khaosai Galaxy of Thailand, the WBA did not recogonize the fight and would strip Watanabe of the WBA title.

In 2009 it was announced that Watanabe would be working as an associate producer on the upcoming live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, alongside fellow Sunrise staff members Kenji Uchida and Keiko Nobumoto.

He would later earn the nickname because of the fearless tactics he displayed in his operations ; this is to distinguish him from Watanabe Hanzo ( Watanabe Moritsuna ), who is nicknamed.

" 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.

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

Giants owner Tsuneo Watanabe was upset, and manager Shigeo Nagashima was forced to tell his son that he would not be offered a contract for next year.

The adults and babies meet Kira Watanabe and her daughter, Kimi, who originate from Japan.