A man treats children to candy like folklore says a tanuki would, and the film lets that simple premise breathe into something genuinely strange. There's no rush, no manufactured heartwarming, just the quiet unease of watching someone inhabit an old story while real kids watch. It's the kind of short that trusts you to feel the weight of folklore pressing into an ordinary moment, where magic isn't spectacular, it's just there.

A candy man puts on a show for a group of children, performing in the way tanuki were said to in old folk tales. A little girl comes by to buy sweets from him, and the comedy comes from the back-and-forth between the two of them. The film is a short comedy built on this playful meeting between the candy seller and his young customer.