Kazuya Tsurumaki

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.