Lee Sinje returns to Malaysia for 'The Garden Of Evening Mists' film

'The Garden Of Evening Mists' cast, led by Malaysian actress Lee Sinje (centre, front row), was unveiled at a press event in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: The Star/Art Chen

One of the challenges in adapting Tan Twan Eng’s award-winning novel The Garden Of Evening Mists into a movie has to be finding a garden that has all the beauty and magic the author so intricately described on paper.

The novel opens with lawyer Yun Ling, who wishes to build a garden in honour of her sister who died at a Japanese internment camp in Malaya in the 1950s.