Ayumu Watanabe

Japanese animator

September 3, 1966 (57 years old)

in theaters on my screens

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

V.O.: Nikuko of the Fishing Harbor

Jap. 2021. Animation by Ayumu Watanabe. The story of a mother and daughter and their lives aboard a boat in a fishing town.

Runtime: 97 min

in theaters on my screens

V.O.: Kaijû no kodomo

Jap. 2019. Animation by Ayumu Watanabe. At the aquarium where her father works, a young girl meets a boy raised in the ocean by manatees.

Runtime: 110 min.