Miyoshi Umeki became the first East Asian-American woman to win an Academy Award for acting.The beautiful cinematography (in Technirama) by Ellsworth Fredericks was shot on-location in Japan (mostly in Kyoto), providing gorgeous, stereotypical views of Japanese standards, such as kabuki, geisha, the tea ceremony, paper-walled houses and zen gardens.Because before I ever worked on a paper, I sold them on a street corner.You know the first thing I found out?Bad news sells best.Because good news is no news.Minosa""s Trading Post and the Holy Mountain:Along the way, they pulled in for gas at the desolate Minosa""s Trading Post - a two-story, roadside adobe brick building near a rock escarpment, in the remote desert:MINOSA""S TRADING POSTINDIAN CURIOSRUGS GAS OIL SOUVENIRSDRINKS ON ICEHerbie honked the car""s horn and entered the curio shop, but it was deserted.He reached for his chest, but said he only had "indigestion." After Packard left, Fosdick expressed his opinion about the bullish and corrupt tycoon:I wouldn""t trust that man as far as I could throw a bull by the tail.He is also expressly commanded to obey the company""s ""no fraternization"" rule - to dissociate sexual relations from the workplace - and to separate the laboring class from the executive/managerial top of he hierarchy:Now you""ve got to be aware every minute, whatever your job is, that you""re an Eastman.Thompson glared at the skeleton, recognizing it as he resurrected Freddy that he had once killed.But the creature yanked Thompson off his feet, and threw him into the metal wreckage, impaling his chest on the Cadillac""s jutting tail fin(# 6 death).