| Director | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Director (US) | Pete Docter, Rick Dempsey |
| Original Work | Diana Wynne Jones |
| Screenplay (JP) | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Screenplay and Adaptation (US) | Cindy Davis Hewitt, Donald H. Hewitt, Jim Hubbert |
| Executive Producers | Hayao Miyazaki, John Lasseter (US) |
| Producers | Tomohiko Ishii, Toshio Suzuki |
| Producers (US) | Rick Dempsey, Ned Lott |
| Original Music | Joe Hisaishi |
| Theme Song | Youmi Kimura ("Sekai no Yakusoku") |
| Casting (US) | Ned Lott |
| Cinematography | Atsushi Okui |
| Editing | Takeshi Seyama |
| Production Manager | Nozomu Takahashi, Hiroyuki Watanabe |
| Art Director | Yoji Takeshige, Noboru Yoshida |
| Audio Director | Kazuhiro Hayashi |
| Sound Effects | Toru Noguchi |
| Supervising Animator | Akihiko Yamashita, Takeshi Inamura, Kitaro Kosaka |