Actor Ken Narasaki is also a playwright, and authored a play entitled "No-No Boy," adapted from the novel of the same name by John Okada. In its world premiere in 2010, Chris Tashima was in the cast. The play was also featured as an audio program by LA Theatre Works in 2021, and Kurt Kanazawa was in the cast.
Scott Keiji Takeda, Hannah Leigh, Josh Reynolds and Maggie Egan all appeared in Paul Daisuke Goodman's previous film (his first feature), Evergreen (2020).
Kurt Kanazawa, Ken Narasaki, Scott Keiji Takeda, Diana Tanaka and Chris Tashima have all previously worked with East West Players, an Asian American theatre company in Los Angeles.
Ancestors of director Paul Goodman's mother were among the 120,000 Japanese Americans wrongfully incarcerated in American concentration camps during World War II.