Christopher Makoto Yogi

Christopher Makoto Yogi was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is the director of August at Akiko’s (2018) and I Was a Simple Man (2020).
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August at Akiko’s

An unlikely friendship develops between a drifting young jazz musician and the quirky proprietor of a Buddhist B&B in this lyrical homage to Zen and the Japanese American communities of Hawaii.

By Christopher Makoto Yogi

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