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Imported movies accounted for 43 percent of Japan's 206 billion yen ($2.25 billion) box office last year, far off a peak of 73 percent hit in 2002, according to the Motion Pictures Producers Association of Japan (MPAAJ).

Fox International Productions, part of News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox film studio, is planning a Japanese remake of the Cary Grant classic "An Affair to Remember," show business newspaper Variety reported.

"To those who are so used to watching dubbed movies at home on DVD, reading subtitles on the screen is somewhat of a hassle," he said, citing research that teenagers in particular find that subtitles make it hard to focus on the action.

Hollywood ruled Japanese box offices for two straight decades into the mid-2000s, but has since struggled to compete as tastes change and audiences favor local films based on familiar "manga" comic books and TV series over the recent slew of U.S. superhero movies.

Kinomoto said another reason for the decline may be an aversion to subtitles among the younger generation, which has grown up watching dubbed movies on DVDs and TVs that provide language-setting options.

"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,American eagle, 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 new "Ghost," which Paramount is making with Nippon TV and distributor Shochiku, is set for release in Japan this autumn. It will star Japanese actress Nanako Matsushima ("The Ring") in Moore's role and South Korean heartthrob Song Seung Heon (TV drama "East of Eden") in Swayze's part.

In response, Paramount broke convention by dubbing into Japanese almost half of the 450 prints for the Martin Scorsese suspense thriller "Shutter Island," released in Japan in April, using a special editing process to ensure accurate translation and proper lip-syncing.

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Hollywood movies so far look on track to overtake Japanese films in box office revenue this year for the first time since 2007, purely on the strength of 3D juggernauts "Avatar" and "Alice in Wonderland," MPAAJ figures show.

But the overall trend still looks tough: Of the top 10 movies at the box office last weekend, only three were U.S. films, according to box office tracker Kogyo Tsushinsha.

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The unit of Viacom Inc also is starting to dub more U.S. movies, such as "Shutter Island," into Japanese to lure elusive young audiences, an unusual step in a country where most foreign fare,Red Monkey, apart from kids' films, is shown with subtitles.

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 the past three out of four years.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Paramount Pictures is bringing "Ghost" back to life with a Japanese version of the romance blockbuster, becoming the latest Hollywood studio to launch a local-language production as U.S. films stumble at Japan's box offices.

Paramount plans to step up its use of dubbing in Japan, and will use the same editing process for the action-fantasy "The Last Airbender," to be released in July, with about the same dubbed-subtitled ratio as "Shutter Island" or a little higher, Kinomoto said.

Warner Bros., a division of Time Warner Inc. is already an established player in Japan's local-language game and recently saw its animated movie "Gintama" grace the box office top 10 for five weeks.

Paramount sees local production as one strategy to build its business, but it currently does not have any other Japanese productions in the works and will first see how it goes with "Ghost," he said.

"We have this great property" in our library, Paramount Japan marketing director Hisamichi Kinomoto said of "Ghost." "If the essence of that story appeals to Japanese, we should use it to attract new audiences."

Homegrown franchises benefit not only from having built-in audiences but also the marketing muscle of the TV networks behind many of these movies, such as last year's top-grosser "Rookies," originally a manga about high school baseball adapted for TV by TBS and later the big screen.

On Tuesday, Mattek-Sands played her first-round match at the French Open wearing a pink shirt, black skirt and knee-high black socks before springing to the defence of Venus Williams.

Not to be outdone, sister Serena, the last American champion in Paris in 2002, once wore a black catsuit on court.

"I just sketched it out. The whole idea is just about the illusion that I?m wearing a deep V-neck. Then the idea was to wear shorts that were like the same colour as my skin. It works very well,G-sta, apparently," she said at the time.

Mattek-Sands says she will be sticking to the socks for the rest of the year, but with different colours for different occasions.

"I think it's great. If you see two blonde-haired girls wearing the same outfits, it's really hard for the fans to tell them apart."

But the Williams sisters have serious competition in the fashion stakes at the French Open in the shape of Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who once played at Wimbledon Centre Court wearing white football socks and a boob-tube.

"Probably about eight to 10. I do recycle. I'm not superstitious, but I bring enough just for the back-up plan."

"The outfit is about illusion, and that's been a lot of my motif this year, illusion," explained the 30-year-old to mystified journalists, mainly men.

"She's got a lot of crap for it, but it makes tennis interesting," said Mattek-Sands.

PARIS (AFP) – It's been eight years since America produced a French Open women's champion, but they're proving winners when it comes to turning heads with their wacky wardrobes.

"These days I just have a lot of fun with my designs and designing and doing different things."

"You can't say it's OK for Maria Sharapova but it's not OK for Venus.

On her way to winning the Australian Open this year, the world number one donned a yellow dress with flesh-coloured underwear and said that she too was concentrating on 'illusions'.

How many of these outfits does she bring to events?

Many observers wondered whether the world number two had confused Roland Garros with the Moulin Rouge.

She has also donned leopard print outfits while also once appearing with a cowboy hat, which cost her a 10,000-dollar fine from the authorities.

Venus Williams appeared for her first-round match wearing a black, lacy outfit with red trimming, a plunging neckline and flesh-coloured underwear that kept photographers busy.

She insists her style is becoming more conservative.

"Your dress often depends on which tournament you are in and who is the supervisor, some are more lenient than others,D&G," she said. "For a while I had to get all of my clothes approved."

Despite her colourful dress sense, offset by an extravagant tattoo on the inside of her right upper-arm, Mattek-Sands is married to an insurance executive.

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The structured handbag. Bulky hobo bags are banished and sleek is chic with these proper purses.

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Lace. Leave it to the European designers to give us the best takes on lace, whether it's a spectacular lace print rubber rain boot by Valentino (could soggy weather be more fashionable?) or a delicate Victorian-esque lace bootie by Dior.

Fur. A controversial material, yet designers can't seem to get enough of it. Go for the faux if your conscience and your wallet preclude purchasing the real thing. Look for fur-trimmed booties, curly astrakhan-style fur purses and "Nanook of the North" fur vests.

Feathers. Manolo Blahnik's sophisticated d'Orsay sandals flutter with feathers, while ostrich plumes look luxe on everything from a Lanvin handbag to an exclusive-to-Neiman's feather stole by Ilana Wolf.

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