MUMBAI: Fox International Productions (FIP) is into development of a Japanese-language version of An Affair to Remember.

The script is being written by Hiroshi Saito who has earlier penned some recent successful Japanese films like April Bride that grossed $32 million and 252: Signal of Life that amassed $19 million.

Yukie Kito who had earlier produced Tokyo Sonata will produce the film. 

The original 1957 English-language version, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, followed a couple who fall in love and agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building. Pic also served as the inspiration for the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan starrer Sleepless in Seattle.

Asia has featured prominently in the Fox lineup thanks to the movie production, distribution and marketing pact inked with Star to form a joint venture called Fox Star Studios in September 2008.

In January, FIP assigned Korean Director Na Hong-jin‘s new feature The Murderer along with Korean mini-major Showbox.

The move marked the first time that Fox has invested in a Korean project and the first time a US major invested in a Korean project at the script stage.

FIP‘s Shah Rukh Khan starrer My Name Is Khan that received its European premiere in Berlin, also opened over the weekend in India amid much controversy and big box-office.