A special one-time screening featuring the earliest extant film by Mikio Naruse, Flunky, Work Hard!, a comedy about an insurance salesman's degrading attempts to secure a lucrative policy. This film is paired with Apart from You, a tragicomedy about a geisha's efforts to help a troubled teenager. The screening on Saturday, December 6th, will include live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura.

Apart From You preceded by Flunky, Work Hard! with Makia Matsumura (Live Piano Accompaniment)

Flunky, Work Hard! is the earliest extant film by Naruse, a small miracle of fine-tuned, finicky gag comedy, squirming with uncomfortable punchlines grounded in personal humiliation and the terror of losing face. This film is paired with the buoyant-yet-brutal tragicomedy Apart from You, in which a new-to-the-game geisha tries to help a rambunctious, antisocial teenager.