Gakken Movies

A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an...

In this reimagining of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel, the musketeer Aramis is secretly a woman in disguise, drawn to the elite corps after exacting...

Odin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on an historic interstellar test flight. They are...

One day, an old man rescued a crane that had been caught in a trap. Then, one night, a young woman named 'Tsuu' visited the old man's house, and they...

A short animated film from 1962.

The Robot Moles is an adorable story about flowers, moles, dumb scientists and a little girl.

A modified version of The Little Red Hen folk tale. It stars a squirrel and the moral of the story (no work=no prize) is removed as the animals who...

A strange thing happens at the shoe shop of a poor but kindhearted old couple. They prepare the skins for their shoes and go to bed, and the next...

A short animated film by from 1959.

A short animated film based on the Aesop's Fable "The North Wind and the Sun".

Six year old Momoko and Motoharu are turned suddenly into High school students. And more than that they have now psychic powers.

2012 release

A little girl tries to sell matches on a cold December night with no luck. To keep from freezing she lights one match and sees a wondrous vision...

A stop-motion film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.

Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.

A young boy named Takeshi steals an origami crane from his friend Nobu. To Takeshi's surprise the crane begins talking to him and offers to take him...

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's Thumbelina.

Tomorrow is Christmas, but the miserly Scrooge has made no preparations. That night, the ghost of Marley, his business partner, appears to Scrooge,...

Gerda and Kai were close friends. But one day, a shard from a mirror that distorts everything it reflects entered Kai's eye. Drawn in by the Snow...

Gauche is in charge of playing cello in the orchestra. He has a few days left before the concert, but he is unable to play it well. One night, while...