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....

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...

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...

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....

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

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 ...

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

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

A stop-motion adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen....

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

A stop-motion animation about sisters doing chores. One of them falls into a well and gets transported to a wonderland trying to retrieve a pail. There she helps the various creatures in wonderland and receives rewards. Upon returning home the other ...

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 short puppet animation movie by Kazuhiko Watanabe....

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 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......

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

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 short animated film by from 1959....

The Whole gang is back together this time Direct to Video and in Japan....