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Grüezi mitenand, konnichiwa!
I hope you and your loved ones are happy and healthy.
So much happened to all of us during the pandemic and unfortunately we had to cancel the last 3 editions of GINMAKU because of it. Now it is finally time to restart the festival and I am happy to share the dates with you.
GINMAKU 2023 Thursday, May 25 - Monday, May 29 (5 days).
Thanks to many requests from our audiences, we wanted to hold our 6th edition of GINMAKU in the larger cinema Kosmos in Zurich. But as you might have noticed, the Kosmos went bankrupt on 05 December 2022 and all the preparation was gone.
After some back and forth, we were welcomed back by cinema Riffraff and Houdini and are therefore very honoured and grateful.
We would like to thank all of you for supporting our festival. The festival has been successfully held thanks to your support. Arigatou gozaimasu…!
It is indeed a bit scary to restart, but we are ready to build a cultural bridge between Switzerland and Japan again with our festival.
We hope to see you at the GINMAKU 2023! Thank you for reading.
With my warmest regards,
Festival Director Mizuki Mazbara
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Grüezi mitenand, konnichiwa!
Due to the large impact of COVID-19, we had to take the decision to cancel the 2021 edition of the GINMAKU Japanese Film Festival.
We are truly sad to announce the same news again after cancelling the last year’s edition.
It is still a very difficult time for all of us but the GINMAKU team is trying to keep our heads up. We will continue to work for the next GINMAKU until this crisis is over so that we can all meet at the cinema again.
We wish that you and your families are safe and are staying healthy. We take a polite bow to send you regards from our hearts.
With my warmest regards,
Mizuki Mazbara Festival Director
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Grüezi mitenand, konnichiwa!
Due to the large impact of COVID-19, we had to take the decision to cancel the 2020 edition of the GINMAKU Japanese Film Festival. We are truly sad to announce the news.
Japan has declared a state of emergency and the situation is rapidly changing in my home town of Tokyo, too. Just like many of you, I am not sure when I can meet my family in Japan again in person - not digitally. It is a very difficult time for all of us but the GINMAKU team is trying to keep our heads up. We will continue to work for GINMAKU 2021 every day until this crisis is over so that we can all meet at the cinema next year.
The crisis has affected almost all of our festival partners. They are not giving up, either, and are carrying on with their passion during these severe times. These Japan related restaurants, shops and companies in Switzerland are looking forward to your orders and support:
Food and drinks Yoojis (Delivery and take out) Sato (Online sake shop) KABUKI Dressing - akari taste (Online shop, Coop, Globus, etc.) Sala of Tokyo (Voucher: info(at)sala-of-tokyo.ch) IZ Exclusive Japanese Tableware (Online shop)
Media Partner Asienspiegel (Please support our friend, film maker and journalist Jan Knüsel who writes about Japan everyday since 2009 )
All of our partners Festival website 2019
We wish that you and your families are safe and are staying healthy. We take a polite bow to send you regards from our hearts. Thank you for reading - arigatou gozaimasu.
With my warmest regards, Mizuki Mazbara Festival Director
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Grüezi mitenand, konnichiwa!
I hope you and your loved ones are staying healthy under these very challenging circumstances. The situation around COVID-19 is unpredictable, to say the least. And the GINMAKU team is having a difficult time organising the next edition of our film festival, planned for June 2020.
We are closely monitoring the situation around COVID-19 in order to come to a decision about GINMAKU. At the moment, we cannot tell whether the festival will take place as planned, or whether it will have to be canceled. We will keep you updated about the decision on our website and on social media, as well as in our newsletter.
Today the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan announced a travel ban from Japan to Switzerland. I have personally never felt both countries being physically and emotionally so far from each other. Every year GINMAKU’s wish is to bring Japan closer to you through wonderful Japanese films to create a cultural bridge at our festival. It would be really sad if we have to cancel our festival this year but we respect the current restrictions on events and put everyone’s health as our top priority.
We wish that you and your families are safe and stay healthy. The GINMAKU team and I love the Swiss style greeting. But these days, we choose our Japanese way: we take a polite bow to send you regards from our hearts.
Thank you for reading - arigatou gozaimasu!
With my warmest regards, Mizuki Mazbara Festival Director
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We are thrilled to announce our next festival dates: June 18 - 24, 2020 at Kosmos Zurich. Looking forward to welcoming you all!
今年のGINMAKU日本映画祭開催日程をお知らせします。2020年6月18日(木)〜24日(水) チューリッヒの映画館Kosmosにて、皆様のお越しをお待ちしています！
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Dear everyone
Thank you so much for all of your support! Our festival started yesterday with the opening film «Signature & Complicity». I was so happy to meet some of you at the cinema. Arigatou gozaimasu!
Here are our programs tonight. Hope to see you at the Cinema Houdini!
▶︎Last Tickets!◀︎ 18:50 Tama Gra Otona-Anime & Tokyo 21st October bit.ly/2VNe5pj
▶︎Available◀︎ 19:00 Protectors Of Firefly River bit.ly/2DSG1OJ
▶︎Available◀︎ 20:50 A Song From Home bit.ly/2Lw4Mqe
▶︎Available◀︎ 21:00 Start Line bit.ly/2XZQEGS
▶︎Last Tickets!◀︎ 21:00 A Crimson Star bit.ly/2DP7vob
With warmest regards, Arigatou gozaimasu! Mizuki
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We reached our funding goal. Thank you so much for all of your generous support!!!
With your support on our crowdfunding campaign, we are happy to announce that we will be able to add one more day to our festival in response to many request!
Our crowdfunding campaign is still on for another 3 days and we added one more reward: «The Film set #2» with x2 tickets for our closing film screening on Monday, May 27. 2019. Our program release will be on this Saturday, April 20..! Please check our website for the whole film lineups then:-) http://ginmaku-festival.com
If your reward includes tickets for the opening film (Wednesday, May 22) and you would like to change to the closing film instead, please write your request here: info@ginmaku-festival.com
See you next month at the cinema Houdini & Riffraff…!
Wir haben unser Ziel erreicht. Vielen Dank für all Eure grosszügige Unterstützung!
Mit Eurer Unterstützung unserer Crowdfunding-Kampagne freuen wir uns, Euch mitteilen zu können, dass wir auf vielfachen Wunsch hin einen weiteren Tag zu unserem Festival hinzufügen können!
Unsere Crowdfunding-Kampagne läuft noch für weitere 3 Tage und wir haben eine weitere Belohnung hinzugefügt: «Das Filmset #2» mit x2 Tickets für unsere Abschlussfilmvorführung am Montag, den 27. Mai. 2019. Unsere Programmfreigabe erfolgt am Samstag, den 20. April…! Bitte besuche unsere Website für das gesamte Filmprogramm:-) http://ginmaku-festival.com
Wenn Deine Prämie Tickets für den Eröffnungsfilm (Mittwoch, 22. Mai) beinhaltet und Du stattdessen auf den Abschlussfilm wechseln möchtest, schreibe uns bitte hier: info@ginmaku-festival.com
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We reached our funding goal. Thank you so much for all of your generous support!!!
With your support on our crowdfunding campaign, we are happy to announce that we will be able to add one more day to our festival in response to many request!
Our crowdfunding campaign is still on for another 3 days and we added one more reward: «The Film set #2» with x2 tickets for our closing film screening on Monday, May 27. 2019. Our program release will be on this Saturday, April 20..! Please check our website for the whole film lineups then:-) http://ginmaku-festival.com
If your reward includes tickets for the opening film (Wednesday, May 22) and you would like to change to the closing film instead, please write your request here: info@ginmaku-festival.com
See you next month at the cinema Houdini & Riffraff…!
Wir haben unser Ziel erreicht. Vielen Dank für all Eure grosszügige Unterstützung!
Mit Eurer Unterstützung unserer Crowdfunding-Kampagne freuen wir uns, Euch mitteilen zu können, dass wir auf vielfachen Wunsch hin einen weiteren Tag zu unserem Festival hinzufügen können!
Unsere Crowdfunding-Kampagne läuft noch für weitere 3 Tage und wir haben eine weitere Belohnung hinzugefügt: «Das Filmset #2» mit x2 Tickets für unsere Abschlussfilmvorführung am Montag, den 27. Mai. 2019. Unsere Programmfreigabe erfolgt am Samstag, den 20. April…! Bitte besuche unsere Website für das gesamte Filmprogramm:-) http://ginmaku-festival.com
Wenn Deine Prämie Tickets für den Eröffnungsfilm (Mittwoch, 22. Mai) beinhaltet und Du stattdessen auf den Abschlussfilm wechseln möchtest, schreibe uns bitte hier: info@ginmaku-festival.com
Bis nächsten Monat im Kino Houdini & Riffraff….!