Manhole Children
2008/117 min./HD 16:9
- Narrator
- Yoshio Harada
- Camera
- Satoru Yoneya
Hiroshi Sunayama - Sound Engineers
- Tsukasa Taoka
Koji Hirai - Editor
- Yasuo Sato
- Sound Design
- Tomohiro Hanzawa
- Assistant Director
- Taku Okamura
- Coordinator
- HOPE Co.,Ltd.
- Online Editing/Mixing
- Omnibus Japan
- Executive Producers of TV Version
- Satoshi Kitagawa
Nobuya Yamamoto - Co-producer
- NHK Enterprises, Inc.
- Producer
- Hideya Yamaguchi
- ©NHK / Efubun-no-ichi Inc.
Hideya Yamaguchi
Born in 1951, Yamaguchi directed television dramas and documentaries before establishing the independent production company, Efubun-no-ichi Inc., of which he is the president. In this capacity he has produced many thought-provoking documentaries, including Shark Hunting in the Frigid Tsugaru Straits; Group Home for Juvenile Delinquents; Tale of Stray Cats in Shinjuku; and Living in a Homeless World of Two-yen Aluminum Cans. More than 20 of his programs have won prestigious awards, including the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan (NAB) Award; Galaxy Award; Minister of Posts and Communications Award; ATP Award for Outstanding Achievement; and the Hoso Bunka Foundation (HBF) Prize.