
Directing
Ayumu Watanabe
Born
1966-09-03 (60)
Place of birth
Tokyo, Japan
Known for
Directing
Credits
18 titles
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
7.4After bringing a fossilized egg back to life with the Time Cloth, Nobita finds himself the owner of a baby dinosaur. Everything is fine until it grows up. Nobita and friends use Doraemon's time machine to return it back to its own time.
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
2006
7.1Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora's special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys' power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.
Children of the Sea
2019
6.8A sapling Nobita discovers is turned into a plant-boy with help from Doraemon, and becomes Earth's only hope at passing judgment from the dryadic aliens of the Green Planet.
Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend
2008
7.0Brash single mother Nikuko is well-known for her bold spirit, much to the embarrassment of Kikuko, her pensive yet imaginative daughter. In contrast to her mother, Kikuko wants nothing more than to fit in as she navigates the everyday social dramas of middle school. Life in the harbor is peaceful until a shocking revelation from the past threatens to uproot the pair's tender relationship.
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
2021
7.6Nobita and Doraemon travel into the future to see whether or not Nobita will marry Shizuka. Once they arrive, they find out that instead of travelling to the day of the wedding, they traveled to the day before. The pair follow the future Nobita and his friends as they try to return a lost cat to its owner.
Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding
1999
6.7A short film released in 1998 between Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas and The Great Operating of Springing Insects. About Doraemon leaving Nobita to go back to the future.
Doraemon Comes Back
1998
Behind the camera
7.4After bringing a fossilized egg back to life with the Time Cloth, Nobita finds himself the owner of a baby dinosaur. Everything is fine until it grows up. Nobita and friends use Doraemon's time machine to return it back to its own time.
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
2006
7.4After bringing a fossilized egg back to life with the Time Cloth, Nobita finds himself the owner of a baby dinosaur. Everything is fine until it grows up. Nobita and friends use Doraemon's time machine to return it back to its own time.
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
2006
7.1Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora's special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys' power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.
Children of the Sea
2019
6.8A sapling Nobita discovers is turned into a plant-boy with help from Doraemon, and becomes Earth's only hope at passing judgment from the dryadic aliens of the Green Planet.
Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend
2008
7.0Brash single mother Nikuko is well-known for her bold spirit, much to the embarrassment of Kikuko, her pensive yet imaginative daughter. In contrast to her mother, Kikuko wants nothing more than to fit in as she navigates the everyday social dramas of middle school. Life in the harbor is peaceful until a shocking revelation from the past threatens to uproot the pair's tender relationship.
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
2021
7.6Nobita and Doraemon travel into the future to see whether or not Nobita will marry Shizuka. Once they arrive, they find out that instead of travelling to the day of the wedding, they traveled to the day before. The pair follow the future Nobita and his friends as they try to return a lost cat to its owner.
Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding
1999
6.7A short film released in 1998 between Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas and The Great Operating of Springing Insects. About Doraemon leaving Nobita to go back to the future.
Doraemon Comes Back
1998
8.3Mutta Namba's ambitions are at a disappointing standstill when his brother, Hibito, is selected to train for a coveted NASA space mission — an appointment that sets in motion events that take the brothers to the crossroads of destiny and dreams.
Space Brothers #0
2014
6.9Nobita finds his old teddy bear among the trash after his mother partially cleaned up their shed and tells her not to throw it away. The stuffed animal is a precious gift from his beloved grandmother. Reminiscing about her makes Nobita ask Doraemon to take him back to when he was still three years old and his grandma was still alive. [edit]
Doraemon: A Grandmother's Recollections
2000
7.6A 2002 Japanese short anime film based on the popular manga and anime series, Doraemon. It premiered on March 9, 2002 in Japan on a bill with Doraemon: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom. The movie's original plot was written by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko.
Doraemon: The Day When I Was Born
2002
8.6A 2001 Japanese short anime family film based on the popular manga and anime series, Doraemon. It premiered on March 10, 2001 in Japan on a bill with Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves. The movie's original plot was written by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko.
Doraemon: Ganbare! Gian!!
2001
6.0An origins and highlight film showing how Mitsuo met the alien that gave him the equipment to become a superhero (which for some reason was never explicitly shown in the two main anime, both just start with Mitsuo already having the powers), how he works together with the other Permans, and the rowdy fight with the antagonists.
Pa-Pa-Pa the Movie: Perman
2003
6.0An origins and highlight film showing how Mitsuo met the alien that gave him the equipment to become a superhero (which for some reason was never explicitly shown in the two main anime, both just start with Mitsuo already having the powers), how he works together with the other Permans, and the rowdy fight with the antagonists.
Pa-Pa-Pa the Movie: Perman
2003
6.0Dr. Octo who researches octopodes decides to take over the world as he deems the eight legged creatures a more suitable master species than humans. To do this, he takes an idol singer Sumire Hoshino (aka Perman #3) hostage. Mitsuo Suwa (aka Perman #1) likes the idol dearly (as he doesn't know the real identity of his Perman partner) and becomes so angry that he transforms to go rescue her. But fighting a giant octopus is more challenging than it looks!
Pa-Pa-Pa the Movie: Perman: Tako de Pon! Ashi wa Pon!
2004
6.0Dr. Octo who researches octopodes decides to take over the world as he deems the eight legged creatures a more suitable master species than humans. To do this, he takes an idol singer Sumire Hoshino (aka Perman #3) hostage. Mitsuo Suwa (aka Perman #1) likes the idol dearly (as he doesn't know the real identity of his Perman partner) and becomes so angry that he transforms to go rescue her. But fighting a giant octopus is more challenging than it looks!
Pa-Pa-Pa the Movie: Perman: Tako de Pon! Ashi wa Pon!
2004
6.4First-grader Masaya is a crybaby despite his large stature, so he can't walk by himself on the dark path to school. The one who holds his hand is Akiyo, a tiny but capable second-grader. Masaya wants to be strong like Akiyo and admires her, but one day, something happens that leaves Akiyo in tears. To lift Akiyo's spirits, Masaya goes trekking to the distant Ipponsugi forest to find the spotted bellflowers that Akiyo loves.
The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader
2014
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Dorami-chan: Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits / The☆Doraemons: Strange, Sweets, Strange? / Doraemon: Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding
1991
No synopsis available yet.
Freedom in the Sky
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