여우비가 내리던 날, 어린 구로사와는 어머니의 충고를 잊은 채 숲에 들어갔다가 여우가 시집가는 장면을 목격하게 된다. 이 사실을 전해들은 어머니는 여우를 찾아가 용서를 빌라고 하지만, 숲으로 다시 들어간 소년의 눈 앞에는 비온 후 무지개가 걸린 아름다운 산이 보일 뿐이다. 또한 그는 누나들과 함께 복숭아를 따러 갔다가 어느 소녀를 만나게 되고, 소녀의 뒤를 쫓아 간 곳에서 복숭아 나무의 정령들을 만나는데...
Uta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love triangle between a lustful priest, his second wife and his son Masao.
Ayame, a courtesan, attracts the attention of street vendor Kisuke and decides to run away with him to America. Unfortunately, a crazed tattoo artist is obsessed with Ayame's perfect skin as a potential canvas, so he kills Kisuke to keep Ayame in Japan. Later, Ayame is sold to a brothel in Yokohama. Kisuke's ghost possesses her, causing his image to appear tattoo-like on her skin whenever she has sex.
In a rural village with a poorly understood but long standing curse from the Dog God, outsiders from a major Tokyo mining corporation scouting for uranium destroy a small shrine and crush a dog under their jeep wheels. After one of the mining company employees marries the daughter of a prominent member of the village, the Dog God’s wrath boils over and people start to die. The village girl and mining company employee start a new life in Tokyo, but the Dog God possesses her and she is deemed mentally ill. The couple returns to the village to perform an exorcism, but it is unsuccessful. As the body count accumulates, the cause of and remedy for the curse becomes more opaque.
