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Misa Uehara is known for:

  • Storm Over the Pacific
    Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.
  • The Hidden Fortress
    Japanese peasants Matashichi and Tahei try and fail to make a profit from a tribal war. They find a man and woman whom they believe are simple tribe members hiding in a fortress. Although the peasants don't know that Rokurota is a general and Yuki is a princess, the peasants agree to accompany the pair to safety in return for gold. Along the way, the general must prove his expertise in battle while also hiding his identity.
  • Desperado Outpost
    When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brother's killer.

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Biography

Misa Uehara (上原美佐 Uehara Misa) (birth name Misako Uehara, born 26 March 1937 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan; died 2003) appeared in a few Japanese films from the late 1950s, most notably starring as Princess Yuki in Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress. Following a brief career, she left acting. Description above from the Wikipedia article Misa Uehara (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.