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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

2013 release

A short puppet animation movie by Kazuhiko Watanabe.

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

In this tale an ant and a pigeon help each other. Third remake of the Ari to Hato.

A puppet animation movie by Kazuhiko Watanabe.

Hikokazu is walking around selling watermelons when he meets Chuemon, a family retainer, in front of a castle. He was looking for someone with...

A traditional Japanese fable telling of a kind old man, his avaricious wife and an injured sparrow. The story explores the effects of greed,...