Joe Shishido
Biography
Beloved Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He has appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname "Joe the Ace" (エースのジョー Ēsu no Jō) for his popular role in the Western Fast-Draw Guy (1961).
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Acting History
2012
The Final Judgement as Lao Porto
2011Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
2010A Night In Nude: Salvation as Naoki Yamagami
2009The Code as Detective 500
2007Switching – Goodbye Me as Yoshinosuke Yoshida
2007Kisaragi as Ooiso Long Beach Host
2007Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
2006Proud Ambition 5
2006Proud Ambition 4
2006Proud Ambition
2006Proud Ambition 2
2006A Surgeon Named Hitman
2005Detective Office 5 as 500
2005Detective Office 5: Another Story as Chief 500
2005Detective Office 5: Another Story
2005Shin Japan's Don 6
2005Proud Ambition 3
2005Flower & Snake II
2005Shin Japan's Don 5
2005Shin Japan's Don 4
2004Alumni Association
2004Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless
2004Shin Japan's Don: Waves
2002Yakuza Jihad
2001Drowning Fish as Ace no Jo
2001Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
2000Debt King Part VII: Millennium
1999Hometown
1997To Love as Chinen
1997Remembering the Cosmos Flower
1996The Trap as Jo Shishido
1995Fukushu no Teio as Kazunari Inaba
1995The Files of the Young Kindaichi as Fujio Tashiro
1995The Stairway to the Distant Past as Jo Shishido
1994Turning Point as Hashizume
1994The Most Terrible Time in My Life as Joe
1994Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
1993Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
1993JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
1992The Setting Sun
1992The Gambler as Joe of Aces
19928 Man - For All Lonely Nights as Dr. Tani
1991Danger Point: The Road to Hell
1991The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
1991神様のピンチヒッター
1991Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet as Junichi Mizuta
1991Kimi no na wa as 角倉勘次
1991The Killers
1990Run the Beast
1990Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
1990Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet as Junichi Mizuta
1990Nozomi Witches as Ryotaro's father
1989You'll Fall For Me
1989Red Crow and the Ghost Ship as Captain
1988This Heartbeat
1988Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis as Tokuji Hayakawa
1988Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis as Noritsugu Hayakawa
1987Star Force: Fugitive Alien II as Captain Joe
1987Fugitive Alien as Captain Joe
1986Leave My Girl Alone as Bar Owner
1986Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast as School Principal
1986Take It Easy
1985I'm All Yours
1985Caribe: Symphony of Love as Shunsuke Saichu
1985Yakyuukyou no Uta
1984Again
1984Sukanpin Walk as Tatsuya Sekikawa
1983Our Wedding
1982I Are You, You Am Me as Kouzou Saitoh
1982Fossilized Wilderness
1981Edo Porn as Jyuppensha Ikku
1981Blue Jeans Memory
1981Pro Hunter as 菊島雄三
1980The First Catch
1980Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji
1980Nurse's Husband
1979Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen
1978Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
1978Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron as Tominoichi
1978Star Wolf as Captain Joe
1977Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye as Black Jack
1977High Seas Hijack as Chief Engineer Kosai
1977Gambling Code and Feuds as Katsuya Sekikawa
1977Ore no sora as Genjiro Yasuda
1977A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness as Cop
1977Dazzling Cops
1977The Alaska Story
1976Big City: Days of Struggle
1976The Sea of Genkai as Sawaki
1976Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow as Gendō
1975Conflagration as Chief Engineer Kosai
1974New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Hachiro Tachibana
1974Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as Katsutoshi Otomo
1974Tokyo do mannaka as Hyodo
1974Blitz!! Strada 5 as Takamura Terujiro / Jupiter
1973The Hard Core Criminal
1973None But the Brave
1973Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
1972New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1972New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
1972The Witty Samurai
1971Bad Girl Mako as Yasuoka
1971Monk's Paradise
1971Blood for Blood
1971Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
1971Go As Messy As Messy Can Be as Mujitori
1971A Man's World
1971New Shameless School as Gebageba
1970Shameless School: Tackle Kiss as Macaroni
1970New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
1970Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude as Macaroni
1970Charming Men as Kobe Saburo
1970Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
1970Shameless School as Macaroni
1970A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
1970Greatest Boss Of Japan
1970Profile of a Boss' Son
1969The Cleanup
1969Chivalrous Pride
1969The Rough One as Imano's Bodyguard
1969100 Gamblers
1969Yabanjin no Nekutai
1969Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
1969Exiled to Hell
1969Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
1968魔性の女
1968Retaliation as Hino
1967Outlaw's Gold as 三鬼鉄
1967The Aftermath of War
1967My Sweetheart as President Shishido
1967The Return of the Filthy Seven
1967Velvet Hustler
1967Massacre Gun as Ryûichi Kuroda
1967Asia-Pol as George
1967Branded to Kill as Gorô Hanada
1967Burning Clouds
1967A Colt Is My Passport as Shuji Kamimura
1966Asiapol Secret Service as George Eaton
1966Your Life
1966Love Eternal
1966Love and Desire in the Night Mist
1966Blood Shed as Seiji
1966Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph as Kokichi Yamaguch
1966The Dragon and the Tiger
1965The Dragon of Macao as Aizu
1965Three Stray Dogs
1965Murder Unincorporated as Jiro (Joe of Spades)
1965Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
1965Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
1965Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
1964Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel as Joe of Aces
1964Tiger of the Sea
1964Gate of Flesh as Shintaro Ibuki
1964Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
1964Jinsei Gekijo
1964Cruel Gun Story as Togawa
1964Tale on Tokai Chivalry
1963Hell Festival
1963Chivalrous Outlaw
1963Tale on Kanto Chivalry as Masa from Kanto
1963Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women as Hideo Tajima
1963Akai ka to Rokudenashi
1963Youth of the Beast as Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno
1963Notorious Bastard as Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)
1963Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! as Hideo Tajima
1962Namari o buchikome
1962Danger Pays as Jôji Kondô
1962Glass-Hearted Johnny as Jô
1962Jūdan no arashi
1962Last Round
1962Hitori tabi
1962The Frozen Plains
1962Nuki uchi fūraibō
1962Kimagure tosei
1962Mekishiko mushuku
1961Hayauchi burai - Daiheigen no otoko
1961Crimson pistol belt
1961I'll End in Hell as Joji Dan
1961Nosappu no jū
1961The Crimson Plains as Joji Sakuma
1961Gambler in the Sea
1961Joe of Aces: Give and Take as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
1961Quick Draw Joe as Joe the Ace
1961Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
1961Pacific Porters
1961The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1960Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow as Jo of the Colt
1960The Angry Rambler
1960The Rambler Rides Again
1960The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960The Man with a Sinister Laugh as Ken
1960The Rambler in the Sunset
1960Wind of Volcano
1960The Gun Like Lightning as Goro
1960Return of the Vagabond
1960The Guitarist from the Sea
1960Ryuji, the Gun Slinger as Gin of the Colt
1960The Cards Will Tell
1960The Guitarist and the Rancher
1959Mighty Rules
1959Who is in the Background?
1959The Rambling Guitarist as George
1959The Human Cyclone as Masa
1959Merciless Bullet as Yukie's lover
1959Tokyo no Kodoku
1959Machi ga nemuru toki
1959Gun Number Zero
1959Wounded Beast
1959We Live Today
1959Zattō ni hikarume
1958Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
1958Voice Without a Shadow as Hamazaki
1958Taiyō o buchi otose
1958The Boy Who Came Back
1958Rusty Knife as Shimabara
1958Breasts and Bullets
1957The Naked Woman and the Gun
1957Small Rats of the Edo Town as Hidematsu
1957Temptation as Goro Yasui
1957The Champion as Boxer Ishiyama
1957Muhō Ichidai
1957Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16 as Masaki Yoshihara
1956Frankie the Milkman as Zenkichi Matsubara
1956Kingorô no omawari-san
1956Kanshō fujin
1956Shiawase wa doko ni as Tetsuo Shimura
1956The Happy Dancers
1956Seishun wo warera ni as Takai
1956Confession
1956Called to the Stand
1956Cell No. 8
1955The Doctor
1955Tsukiyo no kasa
1955The Maid's Kid
1955Ofukuro
1955Policeman's Diary as Patrolman Yabuta