Atsuko Okatsuka presents as someone who knows exactly who she is and has no trouble expressing it. But in truth, it’s taken the comic some time to come around to this place. These days, she travels the world selling hundreds of thousands of tickets — an artist whose appeal knows no borders. But it was only within the last five or so years that she embarked on her touring career in earnest. Okatsuka hints at her unusual trajectory in  Father , her sophomore special released on Hulu last summer, which is being put up for awards consideration this year. Calling herself a “late bloomer,” Okatsuka was burn in Taiwan, spent her early years in Japan, and came to Los Angeles as a result of being kidnapped by a grandmother with whom she’s very close. After seeing her parents divorce early in life, she moved into a garage with her grandmother and schizophrenic mother — an undocumented immigrant living an otherwise ordinary adolescent life.…