MUMBAI: As US films stumble at Japan‘s box-office charts, Paramount Pictures has decided to bring out a dubbed version of Ghost. With this move, Paramount Pictures becomes the latest Hollywood studio to launch a local-language production.

The new Ghost, being made in association with Nippon TV and distributor Shochiku will release in Japan this year. 

Ghost was a smash hit in 1990 with its universal tale of a love that knows no boundaries such as real life and the after life. Swayze portrays a murdered man who must warn his loving wife (Demi Moore) that she is in danger, and it is most memorable, perhaps, for its scene of Moore making pottery as Swayze wraps his arms around her while the song Unchained Melody plays in the background.

The studio is also taking to dub more US films such as Shutter Island into Japanese.

Hollywood studios are increasingly eyeing the potential of local-language production, particularly in the $2 billion Japanese market where once-dominant American movies have been outgunned by local films in the past couple of years.

Warner Bros. is already an established player in Japan‘s local-language game and recently saw its animated movie Gintama stay atop the box-office for five weeks in Japan.

Fox International Productions is planning a Japanese remake of the Cary Grant classic An Affair To Remember, it is said.