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Gonza the Spearman
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Gonza the Spearman is a classic tale of passions subsumed to honor, devotion suffused in duty. Gonza (Hiromi Go), a lancer in the employ of the Asaka clan, allows himself to be romantically linked with both the daughter of his master and the sister of one of his rivals at court and then falls for the master’s wife, Osai (Shima Iwashita), to whom he becomes unwittingly bound in a treacherous plot.
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As the visual arts center at one of the world’s leading public research universities, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) brings the rich artistic resources of the UC Berkeley campus to the broader public. BAMPFA’s mission is to inspire the imagination, ignite critical dialog, and activate community engagement through art, film, and other forms of creative expression.