SAT MAR 7, 2026 1:00 PM AVALANCHE $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission) ; $14.00 (senior) Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee. Los Feliz 3 | 35mm print courtesy of National Film Archive of Japan Series co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles and The Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities ‘Mikio Naruse: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ This event has passed Your RSVP is being held for 1 minute, please fill out your contact info to complete the RSVP. * All fields are required First Name * Last Name * Email * Quantity * Subscribe to our newsletter FINISH
ABOUT THE FILM: In Japanese with English subtitles. Scripted in collaboration with Marxist intellectual Murayama Tomoyoshi, AVALANCHE was a critical disaster; Naruse himself later called this merry-go-round of wily patrician courtship a failure, while assistant directors Kurosawa Akira and Honda Ishiro rarely mentioned their involvement in the film. AVALANCHE is by no means the auteur’s supreme visual accomplishment—the action is speech-sodden and the editing lethargic—yet this minidrama is striking in its liberal use of flashbacks, superimposition and thoughtful interior monologue. A semi-translucent tinted screen descends over the image every time a character enters subjective rumination, with dissolves and double exposures serving as two more inventive techniques with which Naruse effectively communicates idiosyncratic states of mind. FORMAT: 35mm DISTRIBTUOR: Toho COUNTRY: Japan