Nominated for Grand Jury Prize, Sundance 2021

Directed by: Christopher Makoto YOGI

Year of production: 2021

Country: USA

Length: 100 minutes

Genre: drama

I Was A Simple Man is a ghost story set in the pastoral countryside of the north shore of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. Revealed in four chapters, it tells the story of an elderly man facing the end of his life, visited by the ghosts of his past. Incorporating familial history and mythology, dream logic and surrealism, I Was a Simple Man is a time-shifting, kaleidoscopic story of a fractured family facing the death of their patriarch that will take us from the high-rises of contemporary Honolulu to pre-WWII pastorals of O‘ahu and, finally, into the beyond.

Credits

Christopher Makoto YOGI – Director

Christopher Makoto YOGI – Script

Eunsoo CHO – Cinematography

Christopher Makoto YOGI – Editing

Sung Rok CHOI – Sound

Pierre GUERINEAU, Alex Zhang HUNGTAI – Music

Casting

Steve IWAMOTO

Constance WU