# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ayumu-watanabe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:03:05.402Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ayumu-watanabe"
name: "Ayumu Watanabe"
slug: "ayumu-watanabe"
description: "Ayumu Watanabe  is a Japanese animation director. After joining Shin-Ei Animation, he directed multiple Doraemon animated films. As a freelancer, he also worked on numerous animated adaptations such as Space Brothers, After the Rain, and Komi Can't Communicate."
tagline: "Japanese animator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Watanabe_Ayumu_from_%22Japanese_Animation_The_Evolution_of_Japanese_Animation_VFX%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2019_(49013201448).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1966-09-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.06
  momentum:             2.518518518518519
  historical:           8.422690666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2268014/"
    handle:    "nm2268014"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%A1%E9%82%8A%E6%AD%A5"
    title: "渡邊步"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayumu_Watanabe"
    title: "Ayumu Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayumu_Watanabe"
    title: "Ayumu Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%85%D9%88_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%87"
    title: "آیومو واتانابه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayumu_Watanabe"
    title: "Ayumu Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayumu_Watanabe"
    title: "Ayumu Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%A1%E8%BE%BA%E6%AD%A9"
    title: "渡辺歩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%99%80%ED%83%80%EB%82%98%EB%B2%A0_%EC%95%84%EC%9C%A0%EB%AC%B4"
    title: "와타나베 아유무"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11562366"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1117479"
    title: "Ayumu Watanabe"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump