Steve Iwamoto and Constance Wu in I Was a Simple Man
A healing haunting.
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Christopher Makato Yogi s second feature is 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.
In the opening scene of Christopher Makoto Yogi s lyrical family drama,
I Was a Simple Man, the elderly protagonist looks out over densely built-up Honolulu and recalls when there was just beautiful green where concrete towers now cluster. That sense of a spiritual connection to nature, cultural foundations and people long departed, even to the characters younger selves, permeates this delicate, time-shifting study of a solitary man s rueful end-of-life introspection. Dying isn t simple, is it? asks the ghost of his wife, who died young, leaving him with sorrow and anger. But it s a transition that ultimately brings peace in this modest work of lingering beauty.