Another World(2026)

NR
1h 51m

Release Date: Jun 5, 2026 | Limited

A young Soul Keeper — a spirit whose job is to guide departing human souls into their next life — befriends a girl whose untimely death has left her cursed with unresolved rage and regret. As her soul edges toward annihilation and threatens to spill destruction into both the human and spirit realms, he undertakes a journey he was never trained for, in a story about grief, anger, mercy, and letting go.

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Original Release | Jun 5, 2026

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Tommy Ng Kai Chung
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Chung Suet Ying

Choi Hiu Tung

Louis Cheung

Kay Tse

Yeung Nga Man

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Country of Origin: HOng Kong

Language: Chinese (Cantonese) w/ English subtitles

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Another World (Chinese: 世外) is a 2025 Hong Kong animated fantasy drama directed by Tommy Kai Chung Ng, written and produced by Polly Yeung, with Gin Kai Chan as co-producer. The film is adapted from Naka Saijō's 2012 novel Thousand Year Ghost and is an expansion of Yeung's 2019 award-winning 14-minute short film of the same name. The voice cast features Chung Suet Ying as Gudo, the Soul Keeper, and Christy Choi Hiu Tung as Yuri, the deceased girl, with Louis Cheung, Kay Tse, Will Or, Tommy Kai Chung Ng, and Goofy Yeung Nga Man. Music is by Adlian Chau, CMgroovy, and Vicky Fung Wing Ki. Set across the human world and the spirit realm, the film explores themes of death, anger, grief, friendship, redemption, and the passage between lives. Produced by Point Five Productions, SILVER MEDIA GROUP, and the Film Development Council, and distributed by Edko Films with a reported $30–50 million USD budget, it premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2025 and reached US select theatres on June 5, 2026. It is suited to anime and adult animation viewers.

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t took seven years and an unprecedented international coalition to finance. The film was funded by a rare global partnership: Hong Kong's Film Development Fund, the Philippine Film Commission, China's TMZ Media, Japan's Digital Hollywood University, and — in a first for the region — Saudi Arabian company Animekey, which made its inaugural animation investment because it believed the story of Eastern reincarnation would resonate in the Middle East.

It made history at Annecy as Hong Kong's first "Midnight Special" selection. The film became only the second Hong Kong full-length animation ever selected for the Annecy International Animation Film Festival (after My Life as McDull), and the first to be featured in the festival's prestigious "Midnight Special" section. It later won the Golden Horse Award for Best Animated Feature and became the highest-grossing Hong Kong animated film of all time.

The director designed the ghosts using Tibetan "Skull Dance" rituals. Director Tommy Ng Kai-chung drew direct inspiration from Tibetan Buddhist "Skull Dance" rituals and the philosophy of impermanence to create the film's afterlife aesthetic and ghost character designs — a visual approach he blended with hand-painted watercolor backdrops and 3D skeletal animation to create what the team called a "digital picture book" style.