Yumi Shirakawa joined Toho when she was just 19, in 1956. By the end of the year, Toho had catapulted the beautiful actress into her first starring role, alongside Kenji Sahara in RODAN , unlike many of her contemporaries in Japan, her career did not end with marriage. It continues, mainly in television performances, up through at least the late 1980s.
Mother of Yurie Nitani.
