Ayumu Watanabe (渡辺 歩, Watanabe Ayumu, September 3, 1966) is a Japanese animation director, animator, and director born in Tokyo. He also worked under the alias Kakeru Watanabe (渡辺 カケル, Watanabe Kakeru).
Known For
Children of the Sea
(2019)
Director
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
(2006)
Director
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
(2021)
Director
Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend
(2008)
Director
Doraemon: The Day When I Was Born
(2002)
Director
Full Filmography
Directing
Dorami-chan: Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits / The☆Doraemons: Strange, Sweets, Strange? / Doraemon: Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding
(1991)
Director
Doraemon Comes Back
(1998)
Director
Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding
(1999)
Director
Doraemon: A Grandmother's Recollections
(2000)
Director
Doraemon: Ganbare! Gian!!
(2001)
Director
Doraemon: The Day When I Was Born
(2002)
Director
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
(2006)
Director
Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend
(2008)
Director
The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader
(2014)
Director
Space Brothers: Number Zero
(2014)
Director
Children of the Sea
(2019)
Director
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
(2021)
Director
Visual Effects
Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Journey to the West
(1988)
Key Animation
Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan
(1989)
Key Animation
Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds
(1992)
Animation Director
Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters
(2003)
Supervising Animation Director
Writing
Art