Misa Uehara: Misa Uehara. Actress: The Hidden Fortress. The very brief acting career of Misa Uehara might've never been were it not for the stubbornness of the man who directed her in her screen debut. When it came time to cast the role of Princess Yukihime for Akira Kurosawa's samurai adventure picture The Hidden Fortress (1958), hundreds of women-trained professionals and young starlets alike-auditioned, and were consistently rejected. Kurosawa, ever loyal to...
