Trailer For The Hawaii-Set Ghost Story Movie I WAS A SIMPLE MAN
A trailer has been released for a ghost story drama movie titled I Was A Simple Man. The movie is set in the “pastoral countryside of the north shore of O'ahu, Hawai'i.” It looks wonderful movie.
Revealed in four chapters, the movie 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.”
The movie was directed by Hawaiian filmmaker Christopher Makoto Yogi, who talked about the film, saying, “It was always the goal to make it feel honest to my experience growing up in Hawaii. When I think back to my childhood, I was always surrounded by ghost stories… it's very much a vibrant part of the culture. They are told in the same ways that one would trade memories."
One of my best friends is Hawaiian and he grew up in Hawaii. He’s shared a lot of freaky ghost stories with me about the island. I Was A Simple Man stars Steve Iwamoto, Constance Wu, Tim Chiou, Kanoa Goo, Chanel Akiko Hirai, Hau'oli Carr, and Nelson Lee.
Strand Releasing will release the film in select US theaters on November 19th, 2021.
