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Damai Entertainment “Dear You,” the Teochew-dialect drama that has become one of China‘s defining box office stories of 2026, is heading to international markets starting June 18, with Damai Entertainment – the distributor formerly known as Alibaba Pictures – handling the worldwide theatrical release.
Directed by Lan Hongchun, the family drama follows Xiaowei, a young grandson who secretly travels to Thailand to find the grandfather who severed contact with the family decades earlier. What he uncovers is a story rooted in the 1950s Chinese diaspora community in Bangkok – one involving qiaopi, the system of remittance letters that overseas Chinese workers sent home, and a woman named Xie Nanzhi, whose handwritten correspondence holds the key to the past. The film moves between the contemporary storyline and a mid-century flashback.
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