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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks, Alex. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I should have put that the film was planned in the mid-1920s. (oops. Careless of me!) and, yes, it's interesting that that title <span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Jinz</span><span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-size:12.0pt;">ō</span><span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-size:12.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Ningen</span></span> was used quite a bit back then. As I understand it, even one of the 1st translations of <span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Čapek's R.U.R.</span></span> went by that name...</div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 04:16:28 PM EDT, Zahlten, Alexander <azahlten@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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<p class="ydpe36ed9dayiv0996843680MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Hi Steve,</span></p>
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<p class="ydpe36ed9dayiv0996843680MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">I don’t have any knowledge of an upcoming Jinz</span><span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-size:12.0pt;">ō</span><span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-size:12.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Ningen film</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:DengXian;">、</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">but the first translation of R.U.R. into Japanese in 1923 was apparently
</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:DengXian;">い</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">indeed
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">titled Jinz</span><span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-size:12.0pt;">ō</span><span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-size:12.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Ningen. It is also the title of a very interesting manga series from 1929, written by Tagawa Suih</span><span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-size:12.0pt;">ō</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> (who later create the series around
Norakuro).</span></p>
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<p class="ydpe36ed9dayiv0996843680MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">All best,</span></p>
<p class="ydpe36ed9dayiv0996843680MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Alex</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;" class="ydpe36ed9dayiv0996843680MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;">KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces@mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of Steven A Joyce via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu><br clear="none">
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 11:53<br clear="none">
<b>To: </b>kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu><br clear="none">
<b>Cc: </b>Steven A Joyce <steveajoyce@aol.com><br clear="none">
<b>Subject: </b>[KineJapan] "Jinzo Ningen" as a film circa 1925?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"></span></p>
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<p class="ydpe36ed9dayiv0996843680MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Does anyone know more about plans to make a film with the title
<em><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Jinzo Ningen</span></em>?</span></p>
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<p class="ydpe36ed9dayiv0996843680MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">From what little I can gather on the internet, the plans were aborted.</span></p>
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<p class="ydpe36ed9dayiv0996843680MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">I'm especially interested to know if it was going to be a direct interpretation of Karel Čapek's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots). (I can't help but imagine that it would have
been indirectly influenced by Čapek).</span></p>
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<p class="ydpe36ed9dayiv0996843680MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Any details whatsoever would be appreciated. Full disclosure: I'm writing a book on the worldwide performances of R.U.R. I will gladly give acknowledgement for assistance.</span></p>
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<p class="ydpe36ed9dayiv0996843680MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Best,</span></p>
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