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....

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

Aramis fell off her horse and received the aid of a man named Francois. They fell in love with each other at first sight and spent their time happily for a while. Francois was killed by Manson and the Ironmask's people, so Aramis swore revenge. Then ...

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 ...

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

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......

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....

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...

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

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

A short puppet animation movie by Kazuhiko Watanabe....

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 just outside of town. Since she has gotten older and her eyesight has weakened, she bought a pair of lar...

A puppet animation movie by Kazuhiko Watanabe....

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 animated film from 1962....

A white elephant, adored by his friends, has a mother who is blind. One day, the white elephant is captured at the king's request. However, the king, who is kindhearted, decides to send the white elephant back to the forest because he is worried abou...

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....

Red Oni, who is feared because of his appearance, wants to be friends with the villagers. For the sake of Red Oni, Blue Oni becomes a villain and makes the villagers believe that Red Oni is a kind Oni. When Red Oni visits Blue Oni's house......