Constance Wu brings star power to Christopher Makoto Yogi's gentle study of aging, estrangement and mortality, but it's a humble, determinedly low-key affair. “Dying isn’t simple, is it?” That ...

Christopher Makoto Yogi's masterful second feature churns "Uncle Boonmee" and Yasujiro Ozu into a unique meditation on death. “Dying isn’t simple, is it?” Those words repeat through Christopher Makoto ...

That’s the haunting refrain reverberating in Hawaiian filmmaker Christopher Makoto Yogi’s “I Was a Simple Man,” a stirring, melancholic portrait of an ailing, elderly patriarch grappling with his ...

In his latest Netflix special, Simple Man, Steve Treviño describes the one responsibility he has as a stand-up comedian. Hopefully, if he does that job well, it will generate laughs from his audience.