Product Description

" is an absorbing look at the life of professional sumo wrestler Percy Kipapa, as it intertwines the relationship between rampant post-statehood development and Hawaii's deeply imbedded drug problem, and Kipapa's hometown in rural Windward Oahu. After a successful career in Japan as a sumo wrestler, reaching the rank, Kipapa (known professionally as Daiki, or Big Happiness) returned to a Hawaii that had little to offer him in the way of economic opportunity and he drifted into ice addiction. Seven years after his return, Kipapa was found murdered in the pickup truck of a friend a drug dealer out on bail who later confessed to the killing.