Director Tan Chui Mui gets passionate about martial arts recently and it spills into latest movie 'Barbarian Invasion'

Indie filmmaker Tan Chui Mui is the writer, director and actor of 'Barbarian Invasion', out in cinemas now. Photo ALFONSE CHIU

It’s another cloudy morning in Kuala Lumpur and director Tan Chui Mui is seated outside a coffeehouse, looking fresh and raring to go.

The 44-year-old tells StarLifestyle she’d sent her son to school before coming to our meeting location, and that she has a martial arts class at the opposite building right after our interview ends.