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We Are Aliens Anime Film Gets Distributors in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Entertainment news source Variety reported last Friday that sales company CHARADES has licensed Kōhei Kadowaki and NOTHING NEW's We Are Aliens (Ware Ware wa Uchūjin) anime film to the distributors Hooray Films in Taiwan, Shaw Organisation in Singapore, Intercontinental Film Distributors in Hong Kong, and Sahamongkol Film in Thailand. CHARADES is handling international sales of the film.
The film is slated to open in Japan this year. The film screened at the Directors' Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, and will screen in competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, which began on Sunday, and will end on June 27.
The film stars Ryōta Bandō (Fureru., live-action How to Train Your Dragon's Japanese dub) as Tsubasa, and Amane Okayama (Blue Giant, live-action I''s, Hirayasumi) as Gyotaro, when both characters are young adults. Child actors Yūto Maki and Tasuku Nakagome — who were both selected through auditions — voice Tsubasa and Gyotaro, respectively, when they were younger.
We Are Aliens centers on Tsubasa and Gyotaro, two boys who as elementary school students became close friends, but jealousy and misunderstandings eventually drove them apart. Years have passed and the two boys have gone in different directions in life. But when the memories from their past come back, they must face what happened between them years ago.
Kadowaki, who was the creator for the BEASTARS second season ending sequence, is credited as the film's planner, scriptwriter, director, storyboard artist, and editor. Kadowaki has also created music videos for YOASOBI. French studio Miyu Productions (Ghost Cat Anzu, A New Dawn) is credited for production cooperation, after joining on the project in June 2025. NOTHING NEW is also credited for planning and production.
The staff launched a crowdfunding campaign in November on the Motion Gallery website. The campaign aimed to cover production and advertising costs, specifically to "improve the quality of the work" and to "distribute the film more widely." The campaign ended on March 2 and exceeded its 8 million yen (about US$50,365) target and raised 9,604,510 (about US$60,467) yen.
NOTHING NEW is a small film company that was founded in 2022 with the aim "to create a world where talent is not crushed."
Source: Variety (Kevin Giraud)
