KUALA LUMPUR -- Breaking down in tears, frustrated mother Moon Lee pulls her naughty child across a desolate bus station in rural East Malaysia. Alone and broke, she has no choice but to travel with her little boy to conservative Terengganu, where her longtime director friend Roger Woo wants her back on set -- something she was forced to put on hold since falling pregnant.
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Posters for popular Malaysian films, from left, "Sheep without a Shepherd," "On Your Mark" and "Barbarian Invasion." These films are among the growing number of productions by Chinese Malaysian directors that are finding an enthusiastic audience in China. (Nikkei montage/photos courtesy of Da Huang Pictures and Astro Shaw)
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