"Stylish and overflowing with haunting and startlingly beautiful images, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams eschews traditional narrative in favor of eight vignettes to chronicle the different ways in which mankind interacts with his world. In ""Sunshine Through the Rain,"" a little boy ventures into a rainy/sunny forest and witnesses a magical wedding ceremony that he is not supposed to see and as a result must beg forgiveness of the performers or take his own life. In ""The Peach Orchard,"" a young boy is visited by the spirits of the orchard trees after his parents callously cut them down. ""The Blizzard"" centers on a lost group of mountaineers who find themselves tempted toward death by a mysterious, malevolent snow goddess. In ""The Tunnel"" a military officer is haunted by the spirits of his dead soldiers. ""Crows"" takes place inside a work of art by Van Gogh (played by Martin Scorsese). While these first stories focus solely on imagery, the latter three tales contain explicitly stated messages. ""Mt. Fuji in Red,"" shows the great mountain disintegrating after a nuclear power-plant accident. ""The Weeping Demon"" looks at a horrific post nuclear world. The final episode, ""Village of the Watermills,"" is a tribute to the everlasting power of unrequited love."