She is currently Japan's only living female Academy Award nominee in acting categories. The only other nominee was Miyoshi Umeki, who won the Best Supporting Actress award in 1957 for Sayonara.

and Miyoshi Umeki, ‘picture (or mail-order) bride’ fresh (and illegally) off a slowboat from China and ticketed for nuptials with Soo. As in most R&H enterprises, the meat is in the musical ...

Miyoshi Umeki is a cutie who does the co-habitat bit with Wilding. These two make for a colorful pair and their East-West mating game is rendered plausibly.

When Miyoshi Umeki glides onstage to star in her first Broadway show, her first four words capture the house. The warmth of her art works a kind of tranquil magic, and the whole theater relaxes.

Flower Drum Song (music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; book by Mr. Hammerstein and Joseph Fields) proves to be thoroughly professional, has Miyoshi Umeki, Pat Suzuki and ...