JVC, Victor Company of Japan, in collaboration with the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, and Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, Washington, D.C. ; director, Kunihiko Nakagawa ; co-producer, Stephen McArthur, Multicultural Media ; executive producers, Katsumori Ichikawa and Yuji Ichihashi
Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network, Hakuhodo and Studio Ghibli present a Studio Ghibli production ; original story and screenplay by Isao Takahata ; production, Studio Ghibli ; producer, Toshio Suzuki ; director, Isao Takahata
Cloverland Productions ; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment ; the Museum of Modern Art ; Filmmuseum ; George Eastman House ; Academy Film Archive ; UCLA Film and Television Archive