Director: Ayumu Watanabe

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Birthday: 1966-09-03
Born in: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: 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).

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Children of the Sea

Ruka 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.
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Children of the Sea

2019

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Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur

After 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.
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Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur

2006

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Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters

After an old wizard is freed from a mysterious tomb, Doraemon, a robotic cat, along with Nobita Nobi, a pre-teen boy, goes to the Wind Village in order to prevent any mishaps there.
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters

2003

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Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds

Nobita begins to wonder if Heaven exists in the clouds while studying about them at school. At first he is ridiculed but finally Doraemon decides to help him explore the idea.
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds

1992

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Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

Nikuko is a brash, jolly, scattered, and passionate woman in an otherwise sleepy seaside town in northern Japan. She’s also the single mother of 11-year-old Kikuko, who is her opposite in many ways. Kikuko is a string-bean of a young girl, pensive, quietly curious, and methodical in how she approaches life in this small harbor town. Nikuko embarrasses Kikuko as any mom of a preteen would, but Nikuko’s bold spirit makes her especially well-known in a town where Kikuko herself wants nothing more than to simply blend in. As Kikuko navigates the everyday social dramas of middle school, enhanced with touches of magical realism from her ever-present imagination, a shocking revelation from the past threatens to uproot the pair’s tender relationship.
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Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

2021

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Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Journey to the West

Nobita, Gian, Shizuka, and Suneo is preparing for a school play on the "Journey to the West". As they are arguing about who should play the role of the monkey king, Nobita suggested that the real monkey king should play the role. Because the monkey king is only a legend, Nobita and Doraemon have decided to go back in time using the time machine and make a fake one and show Gian, Shizuka, and Suneo to prove that they are right. Unfortunately, Doraemon's machine allowed the fictional monsters to come to the real world and defeated the entire human races, thus turning the future (Nobita's time) into a demon-ruled world. In order to reverse the change, Doraemon and gang needed to return to the past and capture the demons back into the machine. On the way, they have met the real monk and rinrei (a child). At the end, they have either returned the demons back to the machine or destroy them with Dorami's help, thus turning the future back to normal.
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Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Journey to the West

1988

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Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend

Nobita’s troubled about what to do with his zero test marks once again. A gust of wind scatters his test papers and he falls into a garbage dump trying to gather them together again. There he finds a young withered tree that caught one of his papers and he decides to take it home. He tries to plant it in his garden but gets caught by his mother who doesn’t allow him to grow it.
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend

2008

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Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan

Nobita and his friends ran away from home, went to Japan of a primitive era by Doraemon's time machine and created their own paradise in there.
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan

1989

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Space Brothers: Number Zero

Prequel to the TV anime series, revolving around the "origin of the dream."
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Space Brothers: Number Zero

2014

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