The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter in Fifteen Seconds

integrated_multimodal_description: Create a complete 15-second Japanese folk-tale explainer in a vertical 9:16 composition, telling the story of the bamboo princess Kaguya. Use friendly 2D flat-vector picture-book illustration: thick, even, near-black outlines of consistent weight, flat solid color fills, no shading, simple dot eyes and small curved mouths, restrained cutout animation, and a light paper grain over the flat color fields. Use a compact palette of fresh bamboo green, warm gold, warm off-white, vermilion red and deep indigo blue, with near-black outlines. Background color changes mark the chapters of the story. The ending is quiet and bittersweet, never triumphant. No photorealism, no 3D rendering, no gradients, no drop shadows, no browser interface, no screen-recording artifacts, and no player controls. [Shot 1] Begin on a fresh bamboo-green background filled with tall straight bamboo stalks. A short old man with a white beard, a brown work robe and a bamboo basket on his back walks between them, and the base of one single stalk glows warm gold. Then the Japanese caption "むかしむかし" appears at the top of the frame, sliding in gently word by word. [Shot 2] At 00:01.500, a warm gold field wipes across the frame as he cuts the glowing stalk open and light pours out of it, revealing a tiny princess in a white robe standing inside, her long black hair falling straight and a soft glow around her. The Japanese caption "かぐやひめ" then appears in large near-black type beside her. [Shot 3] At 00:03.000, a warm off-white field wipes in. The princess grows taller in three clear steps until she is a young woman in a white robe with long black hair and a faint glow. The old man and an old woman in an indigo kimono pop in on either side of her and smile. [Shot 4] At 00:04.500, a vermilion-red field wipes across the frame. Five noblemen in different-coloured court robes and black caps arrive one after another from the frame edges. Each of them holds out a gift toward her with both hands. [Shot 5] At 00:06.000, staying on vermilion red, the princess raises a folded fan and sets them an impossible task. The five noblemen drop their shoulders and walk away off the frame edges, their gifts left behind on the ground. [Shot 6] At 00:07.500, a warm off-white field wipes in. The princess sits alone on a wooden veranda, and she looks up at a pale moon and a single tear runs down her cheek. [Shot 7] At 00:09.000, a deep indigo-blue field wipes across the frame. A large full moon rises in the night sky above the house. The princess bows her head to the old man and the old woman, telling them where she is really from. [Shot 8] At 00:10.500, staying on deep indigo, a wide road of warm gold light comes down from the moon and touches the ground. Robed heavenly figures on a cloud appear at the top of it, their faces left in shadow and never drawn. [Shot 9] At 00:12.000, staying on deep indigo, the old man and the old woman each take one of the princess's hands and hold on. A thin celestial robe is laid over her shoulders from above, and her expression settles into calm. [Shot 10] At 00:13.500, the frame fills with warm gold along the road of light. The princess rises slowly up it toward the moon while the old man and the old woman stand small below, looking up after her. The closing caption "つきへ かえる" appears in large near-black type, assembling in two stages and holding cleanly until exactly 15.000 seconds. overall_soundscape: Bamboo leaves rustle in a light wind and a stalk splits open with a clean crack, followed by a soft swelling shimmer as the light pours out. Paper-like pops mark each caption and each new arrival. Short restrained whooshes carry the color-field wipes, with a gentle wooden creak on the veranda, a single soft chime as the road of light touches the ground, and a long airy rise as the princess ascends. The last second holds almost still. No dialogue. non_diegetic_music: Generate an original 15-second Japanese period jingle using koto, shinobue bamboo flute, sho reed organ and a few soft hand bells at a slow, unhurried tempo. Begin light and curious in the bamboo grove, brighten and open as the light pours out, turn busy and slightly comic through the red courtship section, thin down to a single held line as the moon rises, swell gently as the road of light appears, and end not on a triumphant chord but on one quiet sustained note fading at exactly 15.000 seconds.