Kazuya Tsurumaki
3 titles · japanese contemporary
The kinetic half of the Evangelion rebuilds. Where Hideaki Anno supplies the interrogation, Tsurumaki supplies the motion — his sequences are the ones that move, and the pop energy he brought as a director in his own right is what keeps the later films watchable as action.
Signature
- Action staging with legible geography at extreme speed.
- Bright, poppy design set against grim material.
- Co-direction across a long-running collaboration.
- Set-pieces built to be re-cut and reused across versions.
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
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