Gakken Movies

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...

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. Ther...

A short 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 an...

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

A short animated film by from 1959.

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

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...

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

Yamahiko, the younger brother, hunts in the mountains, and Umihiko, the older brother, fishes in the sea. One day, Yamahiko loses Umihiko's precious f...

An old man accidentally drops his rice ball for lunch into a rat hole. The happy sound of singing lures him into the hole, where he is welcomed with o...

A short animated film from 1962.

During the summer, the grasshopper laughs at the ants who are gathering food. However, when winter comes, the grasshopper run out of food, and he refl...

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,...

Part of the series of films produced with cooperation of Japan's Central Council for Financial Services Information and Bank of Japan Public Relations...

A non-narrated glimpse of the sea's most unusual inhabitants. A musical score accompanies each creature and emphasizes its appearance, movements and u...

The preschooler Mako and the rabbit Pico learn what to watch out for when walking on the road. The work combines animation and live action to help you...

In order to buy rice cakes for New Year's, Grandpa went out in the snowy weather to sell the umbrellas. On his way home without selling any, he found...

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

The mayor of the animal village, Mr. Goat, has a big news. He says that a train will run through the animal village and the roads will be widened. Eve...