This a story about people who are often left out of history or reduced to background characters. People of color and those with a diverse range of gender identities and sexualities faced not only the same challenges as other pioneers but the additional threats and dangers from a society that saw them as “other” or less than human. Yet they exemplied everything we imagine heroic and inspiring about the Old West and takes it one step deeper.

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This novel western features three unique female action heroines: Sushi, Mochi and Ume who shoot, fight and dispatch foes with the best of them as they face impossible odds in a world that considers them little more than property to be used and discarded. The antagonist, Tofu, is the ultimate outsider, a slick, literate and tenacious rogue challenging the status quo.

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June Inuzuka (writer/director) drew from her love of films like “Star Wars, “The Hateful Eight” and anime such as “Trigun” to create the vision of a western bar room that must have existed but has never been seen. Colorful characters like “Horrible Death”, an Asian woman who is hired killer, or the large and foreboding “Noodles,” represent people society excludes, fears or renders invisible. The characters names are anime inspired which adds an additional layer of fun and modern Japa- nese influences to the film. At the same time, the writer’s background as an historian grounds the film and gives it substance.