Turmoil and Tranquillity Set in Malaysia

By Regina Hoo

February 2020 FEATURE
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Yugiri's design is based on the land chosen, what was needed in the story and what was cinematically needed for the film.
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THE AWARD-WINNING film adaptation of Penangite Tan Twan Eng’s The Garden of Evening Mists – now showing in Malaysian cinemas – entangles protagonists Teoh Yun Ling, the lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, and Nakamura Aritomo, an exiled former gardener of the Japanese emperor, in a cross-cultural romance set amid troubling times on the Malayan peninsula.Yugiri in sketches.It is a visual poem expressing both turmoil and tranquillity.The film is a cinematic labour of love for director Tom Lin...

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