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Shitamachi: Tales of Downtown Tokyo

June 16–July 29, 2023

Take a cinematic tour of Tokyo’s gritty working-class district, Shitamachi, with classic and contemporary films by Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Kinuyo Tanaka, and others, including many compelling but lesser-known works.

Upcoming Films

Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Viridiana
The Magnificent Cuckold
The Exterminating Angel
Nobody Knows
I Am Cuba
Love Letter
8 1/2
Diary of a Chambermaid
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Exhibitions on View

What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection
Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory
Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again
Art Wall: Luis Camnitzer
Fifty-Third Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
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Upcoming Events

Guided Tours: What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection
Guided Tours: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory
Black Life: Zekarias Thompson: Possible Dialogues, Vol. 1
Open: Art Lab
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ART LAB AT HOME

#1: Stamp and Postcard Making

#2: Printing with Leaves

#3: Paper Plant Making

#4: Camera Obscura

#5 Part 1: Natural Dyeing

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For Families

Gallery+Studio: Thinking GIANT

Roundtable Reading: Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas

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News

BAMPFA Mourns the Passing of PFA Director Emeritus Tom Luddy (1943-2023)

BAMPFA Reinstalls Alexander Calder's The Hawk for Peace

Watch: Behind the Scenes of Whitney Bradshaw's OUTCRY

Unpacking Undoing Time with Berkeley Underground Scholars

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From The Archives

Off the Shelves: Hispanic and Latinx Collection Spotlight

Off the Shelves: Kinuyo Tanaka

Off the Shelves: Asian American Cinema Rarities from the BAMPFA Film Library & Study Center

Distinguished Women of BAMPFA: Celebrating 150 Years of Women at UC Berkeley

Off the Shelves—Black Cinema, Black History

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