Peach Orchard

The story behind the movie was interesting in that there was a lot of foreshadowing in the movie especially in the beginning. The first thing that is focused on the screen is the vase containing a peach branch that was blossoming when it was picked. The lighting from the short film also tends to focus on the pink at the beginning which is the color of the peach blossoms. The dolls at the beginning show that there will be a hierarchy later on. Afterward the little girl shows that there will be a miniature at the end. Then when the real dolls appear the color becomes a shade of blue when the dolls begin to dance and then as the dance progresses the color changes to white. afterward it becomes pink again when the dolls disappear and the only tree left is the small one

The child is warned by his mother that foxes get married in rain when the sun shines and that they don't like human guests. The child then ignores his mother and goes into the forest. when he arrives he hears music and looks to see where it comes from. He gets home and his mother tells him that he is cursed and that a fox told her that he was seen then hands him a knife and tells him that he must kill himself or ask for forgiveness. He is told that foxes live rainbows. He eventually finds the bottom of the rainbow and there is nothing there meaning that he has to die.

The point of the film is probably to illustrate how curiosity the most primitive human emotion can hurt you or even kill you. In the end there is a lot of white which symbolizes death in the japanese culture. The foxes symbolize curses in the culture so they were probably used for a main theme for this purpose.