Kenji Ebiwara is a Commercial Planner for Mitsuhashi Advertising and a former colleague of
Kageaki Hiyama. He participated in the Tokyo Short Film Contest with
Syo Sawamura and they won the Special Jury Award. He praised Hiyama, who got the second place prize with
Madoka Akagi.
Name:
Sawamura's name is based off of the Fighting-type Pokémon
Sawamular's name. The name of the short film he worked on is also called The Fighting Earth (~かくとうする地球~) which is about the problems connected to global warming.