I Was a Simple Man is an American family drama film written and directed by Christopher Makoto Yogi.

[3] The film stars Steve Iwamoto, Constance Wu, Tim Chiou and Kanoa Goo.

[1] As a family in Hawai'i faces the imminent death of their eldest, the ghosts of the past haunt the countryside.The cast includes:[5] The film won the Grand Jury Award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival.

"[9] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 83 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".

"[10] Roxana Hadadi wrote on RogerEbert.com that the film is a "100-minute spell of beauty and melancholy, intimate and grand in equal measure",[11] while David Ehrlich of IndieWire called it "masterful" and dubbed it a "Critics Pick".