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{ "url_title": "Takayo Fischer", "title_sort": "fischertakayo", "links": { "json": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Takayo%20Fischer/", "html": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Takayo%20Fischer" }, "modified": "2024-01-09T03:53:52", "title": "Takayo Fischer", "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-PeopleDisplay\">\n <table class=\"infobox\" width=\"200px;\">\n <tbody>\n <tr>\n <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n Name\n </th>\n <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n Takayo Fischer\n </td>\n </tr>\n <tr>\n <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n Born\n </th>\n <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n November 25 1932\n </td>\n </tr>\n <tr>\n <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n Birth Location\n </th>\n <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n Hardwick, California\n </td>\n </tr>\n <tr>\n <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n Generational Identifier\n </th>\n <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n <p>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Nisei/\" title=\"Nisei\">\n Nisei\n </a>\n </p>\n </td>\n </tr>\n </tbody>\n </table>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-People\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n FirstName:Takayo;\nLastName:Tsubouchi Fischer;\nDisplayName:Takayo Fischer;\nBirthDate:1932-11-25;\nDeathDate:;\nBirthLocation:Hardwick, California;\nGender:Female;\nEthnicity:JA;\nGenerationIdentifier:Nisei;\nNationality:;\nExternalResourceLink:;\nPrimaryGeography:;\nReligion:;\n </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <p>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Nisei/\" title=\"Nisei\">\n Nisei\n </a>\n actress Takayo (Tsubouchi) Fischer (1932-) has appeared in dozens of major Hollywood films including\n <i>\n Moneyball\n </i>\n (2011),\n <i>\n Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End\n </i>\n (2007),\n <i>\n The Pursuit of Happyness\n </i>\n (2006),\n <i>\n Memoirs of a Geisha\n </i>\n (2005) and\n <i>\n War of the Worlds\n </i>\n (2005). She has also worked on many independent Asian American films including\n <i>\n Americanese\n </i>\n (2009),\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Only%20the%20Brave%20(film)/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Only the Brave\n </a>\n </i>\n (2005),\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Stand%20Up%20For%20Justice:%20The%20Ralph%20Lazo%20Story%20(film)/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Stand Up For Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story\n </a>\n </i>\n (2004), and\n <i>\n Strawberry Fields\n </i>\n (1997).\n </p>\n <p>\n She was born in Hardwick, California, on November 25, 1932, to\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Issei/\" title=\"Issei\">\n Issei\n </a>\n parents Chukuro and Kinko Tsubouchi. During World War II, she, along with her four sisters and parents, was forcibly sent to the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Fresno_(detention_facility)/\" title=\"Fresno (detention facility)\">\n Fresno Assembly Center\n </a>\n before being moved to permanent\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/War_Relocation_Authority/\" title=\"War Relocation Authority\">\n War Relocation Authority\n </a>\n camps in\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Jerome/\" title=\"Jerome\">\n Jerome\n </a>\n and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Rohwer/\" title=\"Rohwer\">\n Rohwer\n </a>\n , Arkansas. After the war, the Tsubouchi family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where, as a young adult, she was crowned \"Miss Nisei Queen\" and attended Rollins College in Florida from 1951-53.\n </p>\n <p>\n In 1958, she appeared in the stage production of\n <i>\n The World of Suzie Wong\n </i>\n in New York. She won a Drama-Logue Award for ensemble performance for\n <i>\n Tea\n </i>\n at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. She has also appeared in many productions with East West Players in Los Angeles, including\n <i>\n Into The Woods\n </i>\n . She toured the U.S. and Europe in\n <i>\n The Peony Pavilion\n </i>\n in 1997.\n </p>\n <p>\n Fischer has had numerous guest-starring roles on network television including FX's\n <i>\n It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia\n </i>\n as a North Korean bar owner named Mr. Kim. She is sometimes credited as \"Takayo Doran.\"\n </p>\n <p>\n Fischer has done extensive voice-over work on several cartoon programs. Some of her well-known roles included voice work for\n <i>\n Mister T\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n Battle of the Planets\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n Rubik the Amazing Cube\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n A Pup Named Scooby-Doo\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n Saturday Supercade\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n The Flintstone Kids\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n Batman: The Animated Series\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n Batman Beyond\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n The Karate Kid\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n Capitol Critters\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n The Centurions\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n The Heathcliff and Dingbat Show\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n Super Friends\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n Thundarr the Barbarian\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n Rambo\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n Wildfire\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n Captain Planet and the Planeteers\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n Teen Titans\n </i>\n ,\n <i>\n Justice League Unlimited\n </i>\n and\n <i>\n Avatar: The Last Airbender\n </i>\n . She also reprised her role as Mistress Ching in the video game version of\n <i>\n Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.\n </i>\n </p>\n <p>\n On November 29, 1980, she married entertainment executive Sy Fischer. She currently works and resides in Los Angeles and has three children.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Patricia_Wakida/\" title=\"Patricia Wakida\">\n Patricia Wakida\n </a>\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Wakida, Patricia\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0279137/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Takayo Fischer IMDb entry.\n </a>\n </p>\n <p>\n Takayo Fischer interview for\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a5ROJEBDcU\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n \"Only the Brave\"\n </a>\n movie premiere.\n </p>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20240418160809\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.013 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.019 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 117/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 1682/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 228/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 9.551 1 -total\n 70.52% 6.735 1 Template:Databox-People\n 14.29% 1.365 1 Template:Published\n 14.23% 1.359 1 Template:AuthorByline\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2269-0!canonical and timestamp 20240418160809 and revision id 35885\n -->\n </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n </i>\n Top\n </a>\n</div>", "categories": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/categories/People/", "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/categories/Arts/" ], "sources": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/sources/en-denshovh-ftakayo-01-0007-1/", "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/sources/en-denshovh-ftakayo-01-0015-1/" ], "coordinates": {}, "authors": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/authors/Patricia%20Wakida/" ], "ddr_topic_terms": [ "https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/facet/topics/topics-249/objects/" ], "prev_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Takashi%20%22Bud%22%20Aoyama/", "next_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Take%20Me%20Home:%20A%20Child's%20Experience%20of%20Internment%20(film)/" }