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...

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...

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...

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

2006 release

A short animated film from 1962.

2007 release

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.

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 short animated film by from 1959.

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's tale The Ugly Duckling.

An adaptation of Mimei Ogawa's short story. It was a night with a beautiful moon. An optician visited an old lady who was living in a house alone...

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 stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.

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

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...

Hans was making bread and North Wind was blowing all the flour out of his bowl. He decides to visit the North Wind in his castle to ask him to stop...

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...