| Chumei Watanabe | |
| Birth Name: | Michiaki Watanabe |
| Native Name: | 渡辺 宙明 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Birth Date: | 19 August 1925 |
| Birth Place: | Nagoya, Aichi, Japan |
| Death Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupations: | Composer, arranger |
| Years Active: | 1956–2022 |
| Children: | Toshiyuki Watanabe --> |
, born,[1] (August 19, 1925 – June 23, 2022) was a Japanese film score and television score composer.[2] He worked on various tokusatsu shows and mecha anime.[3]
His son, Toshiyuki Watanabe, is a musician and composer, who also has scored films and anime series and his granddaughter Mako Watanabe is part of the idol duo Namakopuri where she goes under the stage name, .
He died on June 23, 2022, at the age of 96.[4]
For his work on anime, Watanabe received an Award of Merit at the 8th Tokyo Anime Awards[5] and an Animation Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th Japan Movie Critics Awards.[6]