Movies: Gakken

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 Artificial Intelligence and a Japanese pilot at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else....

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 revenge on her lover's murderer. Years later, plucky musketeer-in-waiting D'Artagnan is to be hanged...

Odin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on an historic interstellar test flight. They are intercepted by what seems to be a wrecked spaceship only to find that it contains a lone survivor; a yo...

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

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

An old donkey, who had been working hard for a farmer, quits his job and heads for the town, where he meets a dog, a cat, and a cat. The four animals work together to come up with a plan to surprise the thieves....

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 and his friends to an amusement park in space where children from many planets play. While riding an ...

One day, a forest fire broke out in the mountain where birds and acorns were playing happily. His mountain friends are chased down by a cliff, but he decides to use the swing to escape....

Educational video that teaches youth about the value of money and importance of financial planning. Part of the series of films produced with cooperation of: Japan's Central Council for Financial Services Information and Bank of Japan Public Relatio...

Based on the story by Kenji Miyazawa in which two hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange restaurant which makes a number of increasingly strenuous demands....

A stop-motion adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Nightingale....

A short animated film from 1962....

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 and for compensation. Based on a Norwegian fable......

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

Gombei is a master duck catcher. One day, when he tried to catch too many ducks, they took him to a distant village. Gonbei, reflecting on his actions, decides to catch only one duck a day....

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

A puppet animation movie by Kazuhiko Watanabe....

Momotaro was born from a peach, raised by his grandfather and grandmother, and grew up to be a strong child. One day, he sets off on a journey to Onigashima Island with a dog, a monkey, and a pheasant as his companions in order to defeat an ogre that...

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

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......