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When making an audiovisual text, a director makes a series of choices to tell the audience what to see through specific film techniques. Film language in audio description can provide the blind audience with an opportunity to see what was meant to be seen. This study aims to investigate how the parallel and cross editing is audio-described in Pachinko (2022). Based on the method of multimodal transcription, this study shows that the film techniques of parallel and cross editing are not represented in film languages, but in using the terms of time, place and characters, together or separately. The multimodal transcription analysis identifies that music and sound effect helps to link scenes, creating a sense of continuity played over temporally and spatially discontinuous phases. The results imply that there can be diverse forms of audio-describing film language, which can determine how the story is told to the target audience.