A huge rock saves a village from a flood.  The villagers use it to make a giant statue, but the statue is too big to carry to the temple.  But then the statue...  A poor old man goes to sell balls of thread for new years.  Gorouhei, a poor man, trades an old basin from his family for rice.
Once upon a time, 
there was an old couple
Había una vez, hace mucho tiempo, unos abuelos
Hace mucho, mucho tiempo, en algún 
lugar, había una pareja de ancianos
Era uma vez, em um determinado lugar,