Japanese horror Otoshimono getting American remake as Ghost Train

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Another Americanized remake of a Japanese horror film is coming down the tracks, and this one promises to be a one way ticket to hell.

The Hollywood Reporter is sharing that the 2006 Japanese horror movie OTOSHIMONO will get an American makeover as GHOST TRAIN as part of an agreement announced Thursday between All Nippon Entertainment Works, Japan’s Shochiku Company and producer Depth of Field.

Aimed for production in 2015 and release in 2016, GHOST TRAIN will Americanize the story of what happens to a group of commuters who get on a subway train at a station deep underground and are terrified as the train disappears. Part of the movie is about a woman trying to find out what happened to her sister who was on the train.

The original film concerned…

On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female spirit who 'lives' on the station platform. One day, Nana's younger sister is lost, and the only possibility seems to be that she had been taken by these spirits.

This is the third Japanese movie to be put into development in Hollywood by All Nippon Entertainment Works, which has offices in Tokyo and Los Angeles. The other two movies already in process are SOUL REVIVER, which is being done in association with Fields Corp. and filmmakers Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz of Bedford Falls, who are writing that script; and a live action remake of Toei Animation’s robot anime GAIKING, with producer Gale Ann Hurd’s Valhalla Entertainment.

OTOSHIMONO, which was never released in the U.S., was written and directed by Takeshi Furusawa and produced by Yoshitaka Ishizuka, who will both consult on the development of the American adaptation. Depth of Field’s Dan Balgoyen (ADMISSION) is overseeing the English language remake, which has tapped writers Josh Miller and Patrick Casey to script.