Highest rated movie: King Rat (1965)
Lowest rated movie: Cannonball Run II (1984)
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Movies starring Dale Ishimoto have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 58%.
King Rat - released in 1965 - is Dale Ishimoto's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 29 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Dale Ishimoto is Cannonball Run II - released in 1984 - with a score of 40% based on 139 reviews.
Dale Ishimoto (April 3, 1923 – March 4, 2004) was an American actor of Japanese descent. He was born in Delta, Colorado in 1923 and was raised in Guadalupe, California.
After being sent to the Gila River internment camp in Arizona, Ishimoto volunteered to fight in World War II, joining the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. After two years, he was awarded a Purple Heart and given a medical discharge.
After starting a business in Chicago, he moved back to California, where he grew up, and started his acting career by acting at the Altadena Playhouse. He became a "familiar figure" for playing "villainous Japanese soldiers".
Over the course of his career, he acted in a wide variety of movies, such as a Japanese army captain in Beach Red (1967), a Korean doctor in MASH (1970), a karate instructor in Superchick (1973), and as Vice Admiral Boshiro Hosogaya in Midway (1976).
He became famous in the late 1990s for his appearances in television commercials for Nissan in which he portrayed Yutaka Katayama, the company's former president.
Dale Ishimoto has acted in films with Teru Shimada, Cliff Robertson, Sho Kosugi and Christopher George.
Dale Ishimoto has worked with these film directors: Dennis Dugan, Bryan Forbes, Robert Altman and Alan Parker.
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