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name: "Masayuki"
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born: "3 January 1961"
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# Masayuki

Director. Born 3 January 1961 in Nagano, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 3 January 1961, Nagano, Japan
- **Also known as:**  Yamaguchi Masayuki, 円瀬克英, 山口正幸, 夷倭世, 紗那芭美智, 摩砂一, 孩菜来子, Wase Emishi, Masakazu, Yoshitomo Sanaba

## Biography

Masayuki Yamaguchi, known professionally as Masayuki, is a Japanese animator, director and storyboard artist. He was born on 3 January 1961 in Nagano Prefecture and trained at Tokyo Designer Gakuin College before entering the animation industry in 1982.

He is best known for his work on the *Neon Genesis Evangelion* franchise. On the 1995 television series he served as assistant director, directed episodes 19, 24 and 26, and provided storyboards for several episodes. He co-directed the first three *Rebuild of Evangelion* films (*Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone*, 2007; *Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance*, 2009; *Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo*, 2012) and has collaborated with Hideaki Anno on projects including *Gunbuster* (1988) and *Shin Godzilla* (2016).

Masayuki has contributed key animation, storyboards and other roles to numerous anime and live-action productions. He serves as executive advisor of Khara.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, wikidata.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Neon Genesis Evangelion* (1995), Fi1m 86, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/neon-genesis-evangelion.md)

## Also known for

- *Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion* (1997), Assistant Director
- *Shin Godzilla* (2016), Storyboard
- *Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone* (2007), Director
- *Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance* (2009), Director
- *Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo* (2012), Director
- *Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth* (1997), Director, Assistant Director
- *EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)²* (1998), Director, Assistant Director
- *Love & Pop* (1998), Special Guest Director

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