Netflix, the global leading entertainment streaming platform, announced that the Mandarin-language film Dear Ex, winner of multiple awards across Asia, will premiere globally starting February 1.

 

Dear Ex was written by Yuting Xu and Shiyuan Lu and directed by Yuting Xu and Zhiyan Xu. The all-star cast, including Roy Chiu, Yinshuan Xie, Spark Chen and Joseph Huang, brings to the screen a story of diverse and sometimes conflicting family values in a refreshing and fascinating way that marks a departure from conventional Mandarin films.

 

Dear Ex follows three people who are linked by fate because of love and family. Adolescent Chengxi Song  (played by Joseph Huang) loses his father Zhengyuan Song  (played by Spark Chen) to cancer, but instead of having time to mourn, Chengxi finds himself caught in a feud between his widowed mother Sanlian Liu  (played by Yinshuan Xie) and his father’s gay lover Jay (played by Roy Chiu). As Liu fights Jay for Song’s insurance money, Chengxi gradually learns that what holds both Liu and Jay back is not the money, but the weight of the loving memories they each have with his father.