Joe Shishido
Acting • Born 1933-12-06 – Died 2020-01-18
Biography
Beloved Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He has appeared in over 200 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).
Filmography
241 credits
Zattō ni hikarume
Movie • 1959
The Alaska Story
Movie • 1977
Tale on Tokai Chivalry
Movie • 1964
Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
Movie • 1990
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
Movie • 2000
The Cleanup
Movie • 1969
The Trap
Movie • 1996
Jo Shishido
Run the Beast
Movie • 1990
JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
Movie • 1993
100 Gamblers
Movie • 1969
Love Eternal
Movie • 1966
Kimagure tosei
Movie • 1962
The Angry Rambler
Movie • 1960
Nuki uchi fūraibō
Movie • 1962
A Colt Is My Passport
Movie • 1967
Shuji Kamimura
Cell No. 8
Movie • 1956
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
Movie • 1961
Branded to Kill
Movie • 1967
Gorô Hanada
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
Movie • 2007
To Love
Movie • 1997
Chinen
The Frozen Plains
Movie • 1962
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
Movie • 1993
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
Movie • 1961
Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
A Night In Nude: Salvation
Movie • 2010
Naoki Yamagami
Rusty Knife
Movie • 1958
Shimabara
Cruel Gun Story
Movie • 1964
Togawa
Small Rats of the Edo Town
Movie • 1957
Hidematsu
The Killers
Movie • 1991
Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
Movie • 1964
Joe of Aces
Notorious Bastard
Movie • 1963
Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Movie • 1988
Tokuji Hayakawa
Gate of Flesh
Movie • 1964
Shintaro Ibuki
Edo Porn
Movie • 1981
Jyuppensha Ikku
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Movie • 1978
Tominoichi
A Surgeon Named Hitman
Movie • 2006
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Movie • 1963
Hideo Tajima
Fugitive Alien
Movie • 1987
Captain Joe
I Are You, You Am Me
Movie • 1982
Kouzou Saitoh
Detective Office 5
Movie • 2005
500
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
Movie • 1987
Captain Joe
Velvet Hustler
Movie • 1967
Bad Girl Mako
Movie • 1971
Yasuoka
Greatest Boss of Japan
Movie • 1970
Massacre Gun
Movie • 1967
Ryûichi Kuroda
Ofukuro
Movie • 1955
Exiled to Hell
Movie • 1969
None But the Brave
Movie • 1973
Solo Traveler
Movie • 1962
The Final Judgement
Movie • 2012
Lao Porto
The Aftermath of War
Movie • 1967
Profile of a Boss' Son
Movie • 1970
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Movie • 1974
Hachiro Tachibana
Last Round
Movie • 1962
Youth of the Beast
Movie • 1963
Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno
I'm All Yours
Movie • 1985
Your Life
Movie • 1966
I'll End in Hell
Movie • 1961
Joji Dan
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Movie • 1974
Katsutoshi Otomo
Quick Draw Joe
Movie • 1961
Joe the Ace
Yabanjin no Nekutai
Movie • 1969
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
Movie • 1969
Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
Movie • 1971
Mujitori
Asia-Pol
Movie • 1967
George
Jūdan no arashi
Movie • 1962
The Return of the Filthy Seven
Movie • 1967
The Crimson Plains
Movie • 1961
Joji Sakuma
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
Movie • 1977
Cop
神様のピンチヒッター
Movie • 1991
Remembering the Cosmos Flower
Movie • 1997
Frankie the Milkman
Movie • 1956
Zenkichi Matsubara
Caribe: Symphony of Love
Movie • 1985
Shunsuke Saichu
The Doctor
Movie • 1955
Crimson pistol belt
Movie • 1961
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Movie • 1994
Joe
The Code
Movie • 2009
Detective 500
The Stairway to the Distant Past
Movie • 1995
Jo Shishido
Asiapol Secret Service
Movie • 1966
George Eaton
Drowning Fish
Movie • 2001
Ace no Jo
Who is in the Background?
Movie • 1959
The Setting Sun
Movie • 1992
Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
Movie • 1977
Black Jack
Traces of Lead
Movie • 1962
Chivalrous Pride
Movie • 1969
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
Movie • 1986
School Principal
Return of the Vagabond
Movie • 1960
The Rambler Rides Again
Movie • 1960
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
Movie • 1966
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Movie • 1960
Retaliation
Movie • 1968
Hino
Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
Movie • 1973
Tsukiyo no kasa
Movie • 1955
Voice Without a Shadow
Movie • 1958
Hamazaki
Yakyuukyou no Uta
Movie • 1985
Glass-Hearted Johnny
Movie • 1962
Jô
Conflagration
Movie • 1975
Chief Engineer Kosai
Charming Men
Movie • 1970
Kobe Saburo
The Rambling Guitarist
Movie • 1959
George
The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
Movie • 1991
Policeman's Diary
Movie • 1955
Patrolman Yabuta
Murder Unincorporated
Movie • 1965
Jiro (Joe of Spades)
Nurse's Husband
Movie • 1980
The Happy Dancers
Movie • 1956
Kingorô no omawari-san
Movie • 1956
Called to the Stand
Movie • 1956
Kanshō fujin
Movie • 1956
Danger Pays
Movie • 1962
Jôji Kondô
High Seas Hijack
Movie • 1977
Chief Engineer Kosai
The Maid's Kid
Movie • 1955
Tokyo no Kodoku
Movie • 1959
Ore no sora
Movie • 1977
Genjiro Yasuda
Nozomi Witches
Movie • 1990
Ryotaro's father
Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
Movie • 1970
Macaroni
New Shameless School
Movie • 1971
Gebageba
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Movie • 1990
Junichi Mizuta
The Sea of Genkai
Movie • 1976
Sawaki
The Boy Who Came Back
Movie • 1958
Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
Movie • 1989
Captain
Tiger of the Sea
Movie • 1964
Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
Movie • 1971
Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
Movie • 1957
Masaki Yoshihara
The Dragon and the Tiger
Movie • 1966
The Rambler in the Sunset
Movie • 1960
Wind of Volcano
Movie • 1960
The Guitarist from the Sea
Movie • 1960
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
Movie • 1960
Gin of the Colt
The Hard Core Criminal
Movie • 1973
A Man's World
Movie • 1971
The Naked Woman and the Gun
Movie • 1957
Blood for Blood
Movie • 1971
Naoto Tezuka
The Rough One
Movie • 1969
Imano's Bodyguard
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
Movie • 1972
Gambling Code and Feuds
Movie • 1977
Katsuya Sekikawa
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Movie • 1991
Junichi Mizuta
My Sweetheart
Movie • 1967
President Shishido
The Man with a Sinister Laugh
Movie • 1960
Ken
The Gun Like Lightning
Movie • 1960
Goro
The Human Cyclone
Movie • 1959
Masa
Monk's Paradise
Movie • 1971
Kisaragi
Movie • 2007
Ooiso Long Beach Host
Our Wedding
Movie • 1983
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
Movie • 1961
Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Movie • 1966
Kokichi Yamaguch
You'll Fall For Me
Movie • 1989
The Dragon of Macao
Movie • 1965
Aizu
Blood Shed
Movie • 1966
Seiji
Turning Point
Movie • 1994
Hashizume
The First Catch
Movie • 1980
Blue Jeans Memory
Movie • 1981
Shameless School
Movie • 1970
Macaroni
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
Movie • 1970
Macaroni
Leave My Girl Alone
Movie • 1986
Bar Owner
Burning Clouds
Movie • 1967
Take It Easy
Movie • 1986
Sukanpin Walk
Movie • 1984
Tatsuya Sekikawa
Flower & Snake II
Movie • 2005
Shiawase wa doko ni
Movie • 1956
Tetsuo Shimura
Danger Point: The Road to Hell
Movie • 1991
The Champion
Movie • 1957
Boxer Ishiyama
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
Movie • 1972
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
Movie • 1970
Jinsei Gekijo
Movie • 1964
Confession
Movie • 1956
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
Movie • 1970
Temptation
Movie • 1957
Goro Yasui
8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
Movie • 1992
Dr. Tani
The Guitarist and the Rancher
Movie • 1960
Wounded Beast
Movie • 1959
Gun Number Zero
Movie • 1959
Mighty Rules
Movie • 1959
Again
Movie • 1984
Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
Movie • 1958
Taiyō o buchi otose
Movie • 1958
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
Movie • 1961
Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
Seishun wo warera ni
Movie • 1956
Takai
The Gambler
Movie • 1992
Joe of Aces
Yakuza Jihad
Movie • 2002
Mexico Drifter
Movie • 1962
Gun of Nosappu
Movie • 1961
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
Movie • 1963
Hideo Tajima
Machi ga nemuru toki
Movie • 1959
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
Movie • 2011
Breasts and Bullets
Movie • 1958
Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
Movie • 1960
Jo of the Colt
Fukushu no Teio
Movie • 1995
Kazunari Inaba
Muhō Ichidai
Movie • 1957
Gambler in the Sea
Movie • 1961
Merciless Bullet
Movie • 1959
Yukie's lover
Pacific Porters
Movie • 1961
The Cards Will Tell
Movie • 1960
Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
Movie • 1994
Fossilized Wilderness
Movie • 1982
Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
Movie • 1965
Tornado George / Jouji Tatsumaki
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Movie • 1988
Noritsugu Hayakawa
This Heartbeat
Movie • 1988
魔性の女
Movie • 1968
Akai ka to Rokudenashi
Movie • 1963
We Live Today
Movie • 1959
The Witty Samurai
Movie • 1972
Hell Festival
Movie • 1963
Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
Movie • 1965
Center of Tokyo
Movie • 1974
Hyodo
Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
Movie • 1964
Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
Movie • 1965
Switching – Goodbye Me
Movie • 2007
Yoshinosuke Yoshida
Proud Ambition 2
Movie • 2006
Proud Ambition
Movie • 2006
Hometown
Movie • 1999
Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
Movie • 1970
Alumni Association
Movie • 2004
Proud Ambition 3
Movie • 2005
Proud Ambition 4
Movie • 2006
Shin Japan's Don: Waves
Movie • 2004
Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless
Movie • 2004
Shin Japan's Don 4
Movie • 2005
Shin Japan's Don 5
Movie • 2005
Shin Japan's Don 6
Movie • 2005
Proud Ambition 5
Movie • 2006
Outlaw's Gold
Movie • 1967
三鬼鉄
Tale on Kanto Chivalry
Movie • 1963
Masa from Kanto
Three Stray Dogs
Movie • 1965
Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
Movie • 1969
Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
Movie • 2001
Chivalrous Outlaw
Movie • 1963
Stardust Wharf
Movie • 1968
Biographies of Killers
Movie • 1969
Ex Convict: Sword Storm
Movie • 1969
Katayoku dake no tenshi
Movie • 1986
His Highness Surabaya
Movie • 1955
Applied Atomic Energy Research Institute Worker with a Tohoku Accent
Star Wolf
TV • 1978
Captain Joe
Detective Office 5: Another Story
TV • 2005
Chief 500
Blitz!! Strada 5
TV • 1974
Takamura Terujiro / Jupiter
Kimi no na wa
TV • 1991
角倉勘次
Pro Hunter
TV • 1981
菊島雄三
Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
TV • 1978
Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji
TV • 1980
Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
TV • 1976
Gendō
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
TV • 1995
Fujio Tashiro
Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen
TV • 1979
Big City: Days of Struggle
TV • 1976
Detective Office 5: Another Story
TV • 2005
Dazzling Cops
TV • 1977