The Blizzard

I picked the dream sequence "The Dream" from the Kurosawa film "Dreams". The scene starts off slow but overall I thought that the scene was pretty interesting. This dream sequence is about four mountain climbers that get caught in a blizzard after leaving there camp. After getting caught in the blizzard three of the guys agree they that they need to stop until the storm dies down but the leader of the group wants them to keep going. While arguing it seems like the three guys who wanted to stop just start to faint one by one. The leader shakes them to wake them up but they don't. Eventually he starts to go down to put right before he passes out a woman appears and puts a blanket over him. They never say the woman's name but I think they are implying that she is Izanami.
Izanami and Izanagi are the creators of the land that became known as Japan. So it is possible that she came down to help him out but it is also possible that it could have been the Kami of the mountain that showed up to save then from the storm. She gave the leader a blanket and told him the "The snow is warm", and "The ice is hot". I'm not really sure what she meant but after that the storm cleared and he was able to get up. Then he was able to wake up his friends and and their camp appeared in the background and they were saved. The Kami is the only way i can think of tho relate this particular scene to Shinto.