![]() ![]() While this reviewer has not read the novel, it’s not hard to infer from the movie why the book was so successful. The strong and engaging storytelling drives the film. It fully plays upon the complex and tense racial relations during that time Yun Ling, who hates the Japanese, is briefly courted by a British official’s son, but she ends up getting closer to Aritomo, who may or may not have been working for the Japanese during the war. It’s a riveting tale that, although moves at a relatively slow pace, rarely bores. He takes his time making his workers laboriously move giant stones until the stone tells him that it’s in the right place. Abe personifies the garden - philosophical, esoteric and seemingly cold and unemotional, but also alluring and calming. To fulfill the dream of her sister, who died in a Japanese internment camp, Yun Ling (Lee) ends up as an apprentice for the mysterious Aritomo (Hiroshi Abe), a self-exiled imperial gardener who has been building his “Evening Mist” garden in the lush Cameron Highlands. ![]()
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