Japanese Film Festival

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

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

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

We are thrilled to announce the 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！

Nun geht es los und wir starten unser Crowdfunding! 2018年「銀幕日本映画祭」のクラウドファンディングが始まりました！

Zum vierten mal wird GINMAKU Japanese Film Festival durchgeführt – Bitte teilen, weitersagen, unterstützen und mithelfen, dass es wirklich dazu kommt. 皆様のご協力をお願い致します。

Der Link zur Kampagne: キャンペーンのリンクはこちらです： https://wemakeit.com/projects/ginmaku-film-festival-2018

ありがとうございます, vielen Dank!

Viele liebe Grüsse, Team GINMAKU

Dear GINMAKU supporters,

Das Datum für GINMAKU 2018 ist jetzt festgelegt: Von Mi. 23. Mai bis So. 27. Mai

来年のGINMAKU日本映画祭開催日程が決定しました！ 2018年5月23日(水) 〜 27日(日)

We are working hard to make the 4th edition happen. See you next year at Kino Houdini & Riffraff…!

Nun geht es los und wir starten unser Crowdfunding!

Zum dritten mal wird GINMAKU Japanese Film Festival durchgeführt – Bitte teilen, weitersagen, unterstützen und mithelfen, dass es wirklich dazu kommt.

Der Link zur Kampagne: http://bit.ly/2lH9nDs

Arigatou gozaimasu, vielen Dank!

Viele liebe Grüsse,
Team GINMAKU

Please help us keep GINMAKU moving. Our 2nd crowdfunding project ends soon!

https://wemakeit.com/projects/2nd-japanese-film-festival

Thank you so much for your support on our project in 2014!

We are happy to announce that our 2nd GINMAKU Japanese film festival will take place from next Thursday, April 14 till Sunday, April 17.2016 at Kino Houdini. Please share our 2nd crowdfunding project to your friends, your support will help us keep GINMAKU moving!

https://wemakeit.com/projects/2nd-japanese-film-festival

Arigatou gozaimasu…!

The team GINMAKU wishes you all the very best! Thank you so much for your support on our project. We will have our 2nd edition in April this year at the same cinema «Houdini». We hope to see you there…!

We made it, with your support….!

We can’t thank you enough….!

We are very happy to share these special video with you…!

Director of «FORMA» Ms. Ayumi SAKAMOTO

http://www.kinohoudini.ch/kino/108239/forma-ginmaku-japanese-film-festival.html?aktuell=

Protagonist of «The Frivolous» Mr. Mac AKASAKA

http://www.kinohoudini.ch/kino/108278/the-frivolous-ginmaku-japanese-film-festival.html?aktuell=

Director of «The End of Special Time We Were Allowed» Mr. Shingo OTA

http://www.kinohoudini.ch/kino/108283/the-end-of-the-special-time-we-were-allowed-ginmaku-japanese-film-festival.html?aktuell=

We are happy to announce that we will have some very special guests coming from Japan.

• Director of «MY HOUSE» Mr. Yukihiko TSUTSUMI

• Director of «FORMA» Ms. Ayumi SAKAMOTO,
  Actress Ms. Nagisa UMENO
  Producer Mr. Fumiyuki YANAKA

• Director of «The Frivolous» Mr. Toshimichi FUJIOKA
  Producer Mr. Tetsuya KINOUCHI

• Ambassador Ryuhei Maeda from the Japanese embassy in Switzerland

Directors will be present for question & answer session after screenings.

Ambassador Maeda will give us a speech shortly before our opening screening on Thursday, Nov 6.

For more details please check our festival schedule.

http://ginmaku-festival.com/schedule/

We are delighted to receive the great news that we have backers for our project! Thank you so much for your warm support. Arigatou gozaimasu!