Dale Ishimoto (April 3, 1923 – March 4, 2004) was an American actor of Japanese descent.

[1] After being sent to the Gila River internment camp in Arizona,[2] Ishimoto volunteered to fight in World War II, joining the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

[3] 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 known in the late 1990s for his appearances in television commercials for Nissan in which he portrayed Yutaka Katayama, the company's former president.

[citation needed] Ishimoto married Miiko Taka in Baltimore in 1944,[5] and they had two children: a son and a daughter.