Dear You (2026)

Every letter leads home.

Xiaowei travels to Thailand to find his "billionaire grandfather" who is out of contact due to debt problems, but unexpectedly find the one who has been corresponding with his grandmother for years is not her husband.

Directed by: Lan Hongchun

Written by: Lan Hongchun, Zheng Xuanxuan, Yang Leng, Zhu Liyun

Music by: Wu Zehua, Li Yihan, Yang Leng

Starring: Li Sitong, Wang Yantong, Wu Shaoqing, Zheng Runqi, Fang Peisong, Wang Xiaohui, Zheng Pengsheng, Chen Qinqin, Zheng Huisong, Zhao Shuguang

Genre: Drama, Comedy

Released: 2026-04-30

Runtime: 118 minutes

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Dear You (2026): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• Thai actress Usha Seamkhum, recognized for her role in How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024), was cast as the elderly Zia Lamgi.
• To authentically capture the ambiance of old Siam, the production team recreated the setting of Bangkok's Chinatown in Jieyang, drawing inspiration from Zheng Xuanxuan's guidebook.
• The film initially accumulated a user rating of 9/10 on the Chinese online database Douban, and later climbed to 9.3, making it one of the highest-rated domestic drama films on the platform in the past decade.
• Wang Yantong, who plays Den Bhagseng, graduated from Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai with a degree in the Art of Announcing and Anchoring.
• As of July 13, cumulative box office revenue had surpassed RM 18.66 million, with 1.01 million admissions, making it the top-grossing Chinese-language film in Malaysia as of June 2026 and establishing Malaysia as the film's highest-grossing overseas market outside of mainland China.
• The inspiration for the film stemmed from the real-life experiences of overseas Chinese that Lan encountered while filming the documentary Teochew (四海潮味), which explored Teochew cuisine around the world.
• The film continued topping the China box office and achieved its peak at the third highest-grossing position in the world during the May 22–24 weekend, adding ¥309.4 million ($45.5 million) in its fourth weekend of release.
• Made on a modest budget of ¥14 million, the film became a massive sleeper hit, grossing over ¥1.9 billion at the domestic box office.
• The film's international release date was initially announced as June 18, in various markets including Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei.
• The campaign targeted "Chinese dialects", a term rejected by some linguists due to a lack of mutual intelligibility, according to Tan Dawn Wei of The Straits Times; instead, they are just "variants" of a language.
• As of August 1, its box office earnings had surpassed ¥2 billion, securing the third position on the 2026 box office chart of the market, only behind Pegasus 3 and Kung Fu Soccer.
• Dear You also had a market screening at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on May 15, showcasing its distributors' intent to venture into the international market.

Source: Wikipedia

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