“Dear You,” the Teochew-dialect drama that has grow to be one in every of China‘s defining field workplace tales of 2026, is heading to worldwide markets beginning June 18, with Damai Entertainment – the distributor previously often known as Alibaba Photos – dealing with the worldwide theatrical launch.
Directed by Lan Hongchun, the household drama follows Xiaowei, a younger grandson who secretly travels to Thailand to seek out the grandfather who severed contact with the household a long time earlier. What he uncovers is a narrative rooted within the Nineteen Fifties Chinese language diaspora group in Bangkok – one involving qiaopi, the system of remittance letters that abroad Chinese language employees despatched residence, and a lady named Xie Nanzhi, whose handwritten correspondence holds the important thing to the previous. The movie strikes between the up to date storyline and a mid-century flashback.
The image stars Li Sitong, Wang Yantong, Wu Shaoqing, Zheng Runqi and Wang Xiaohui, with Thai actor Usha Seamkhum additionally showing.
The primary wave of worldwide territories takes in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei. A broader rollout is to comply with throughout greater than 10 extra markets, together with the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the U.Okay., France, Eire, Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam.
In China, the movie has since amassed a neighborhood field workplace of greater than RMB1.5 billion ($221.6 million), inserting it second on the 2026 annual chart after “Pegasus 3.” Its 9.2 score on evaluation platform Douban, drawn from greater than 700,000 person scores, represents one of many the very best marks for a neighborhood Chinese language launch in over a decade.
The qiaopi custom – the historic letter-and-remittance correspondence maintained by abroad Chinese language communities – is acknowledged as a part of the UNESCO World Reminiscence Register. “Dear You” is Lan’s third characteristic set throughout the Chaoshan cultural world, following “I Am Sure I Can” and “Take Me to See My Mom.”
Damai Leisure, which rebranded from Alibaba Photos in 2025 and operates ticketing platforms Tao Piao Piao and Damai alongside the Beacon AI promotion and distribution platform, has participated within the manufacturing and distribution of greater than 300 movies. The worldwide enlargement of “Dear You” positions the corporate to convey Teochew and wider Chinese language diaspora cinema to audiences throughout Asia, Oceania, Europe and North America.
