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Coming to DVD 3/1/22
Opening 11/19/21
- Metrograph | New York NY
- Consolidated Kaʻahumanu | Kahului HI
- Consolidated Mililani with TITAN LUXE | Mililani HI
- Consolidated Kahala | Honolulu HI
- Opera Plaza | San Francisco CA
Opening 12/1/21
- Space Gallery | Portland ME
Opening 12/3/21
- Laemmle Royal Theatre | Los Angeles CA
Opening 1/20/22
- The Cary Theater | Cary NC
I WAS A SIMPLE MAN
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.
“A gentle reflection on memory and death, featuring Constance Wu as the ghost of a woman who returns to comfort her Japanese Hawaiian husband near the end of his life” – The Hollywood Reporter
Constance Wu Stars in a Hushed and Haunting Hawaii Ghost Story
– IndieWire
Part ghost story, part memory piece, “I Was a Simple Man” creates a cinema that is meticulously physical and wildly metaphysical
– The New Yorker
A Beguilingly Restful Ghost Story That Moves With the Hawaiian Breeze
– Variety
DIRECTOR:
Christopher Makoto Yogi
WRITER:
Christopher Makoto Yogi
PRODUCER:
CAST:
Country of Origin: USA
Format: DCP/1.85/Color
Sound Format: 5.1 Surround
Running Time: 100 minutes
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
In English
