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August at Akiko's is a mystical film that lives in the seams between dream, reality, and memory with a time-signature all its own. Armed with just his suitcase and a sax, cosmopolitan musician Alex Zhang Hungtai (Dirty Beaches, Last Lizard) returns home to the Big Island of Hawai‘i having been away for nearly a decade.
Hungtai takes refuge in a Buddhist B&B with a woman named Akiko. Alex's experimental free jazz music at first collides with the bell sounds of Akiko's meditation, but as...
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August at Akiko's. 2018 · 1 hr 15 min. TV-14. Drama. A musician returns to his Hawaiian roots, where a friendship blossoms into a harmonious connection with a Buddhist woman named Akiko. Audio Languages: English. Subtitles: English. Starring: Alex Zhang Hungtai Akiko Masuda. Directed by: Christopher Makoto Yogi.
Synopsis. Musician Alex sets off to an island to find his ancestral home with only childhood memories as his navigational system. As he fails to find his home, he reaches a retreat run by a Buddhist woman, Akiko, where he decides to stay for a while.
Feb 13, 2018 · Film Review: ‘August at Akiko’s’ Cool and calming as a summer sea breeze, Christopher Makoto Yogi's gentle paean to Hawaii, jazz and inner peace should be a festival-circuit charmer.
Directed by Christopher Makoto Yogi. Musician Alex sets off to an island to find his ancestral home with only childhood memories as his navigational system. As he fails to find his home, he reaches a retreat run by a Buddhist woman, Akiko, where he decides to stay for a while.
