Joe Shishido
Known for: Acting
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
Series
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
Fujio Tashiro
1995
Film
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Junichi Mizuta
1991
Series
Kimi no na wa
角倉勘次
1991
Series
Big City: Days of Struggle
1976
Film
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Junichi Mizuta
1990
Film
Flower & Snake II
2005
Series
Detective Office 5: Another Story
Chief 500
2005
Series
Detective Office 5: Another Story
2005
Film
Edo Porn
Jyuppensha Ikku
1981
Series
Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
Gendō
1976
Series
Blitz!! Strada 5
Takamura Terujiro / Jupiter
1974
Series
Pro Hunter
菊島雄三
1981
Series
Star Wolf
Captain Joe
1978
Film
Gate of Flesh
Shintaro Ibuki
1964
Film
Branded to Kill
Gorô Hanada
1967
Film
The Black Current
Newspaper Reporter
1954
Series
Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
1978
Film
The Setting Sun
1992
Film
Conflagration
Chief Engineer Kosai
1975
Film
The Rambler Rides Again
1960
Film
Tiger of the Sea
1964
Film
Youth of the Beast
Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno
1963
Film
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Tominoichi
1978
Film
Quick Draw Joe
Joe the Ace
1961
Film
I'm All Yours
Priest
1985
Series
Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen
1979
Film
Blood Shed
Seiji
1966
Film
A Night in Nude: Salvation
Naoki Yamagami
2010
Film
Frankie the Milkman
Zenkichi Matsubara
1956
Film
I Are You, You Am Me
Kouzou Saitoh
1982
Film
The Return of the Filthy Seven
1967
Film
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Tokuji Hayakawa
1988
Film
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Noritsugu Hayakawa
1988
Film
Machi ga nemuru toki
1959
Film
The Guitarist and the Rancher
1960
Film
The Dragon of Macao
Aizu
1965
Series
Dazzling Cops
1977
Film
Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
Captain
1989
Film
Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
Mujitori
1971
Film
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Joe
1994
Film
The Final Judgement
Lao Porto
2012
Film
The Code
Detective 500
2009
Film
The Trap
Jo Shishido
1996
Film
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
1993
Film
Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
1990
Film
Confession
1956
Film
Tsukiyo no kasa
1955
Film
The Rambler in the Sunset
1960
Film
Blue Jeans Memory
1981
Film
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
School Principal
1986
Film
None But the Brave
1973
Film
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
2011
Film
Jinsei Gekijo
1964
Series
Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji
1980
Film
Leave My Girl Alone
Bar Owner
1986
Film
High Seas Hijack
Chief Engineer Kosai
1977
Film
Kisaragi
Ooiso Long Beach Host
2007
Film
Detective Office 5
500
2005
Film
My Sweetheart
President Shishido
1967
Film
Switching – Goodbye Me
Yoshinosuke Yoshida
2007
Film
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Hachiro Tachibana
1974
Film
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Katsutoshi Otomo
1974
Film
Return of the Vagabond
1960
Film
The Stairway to the Distant Past
Jo Shishido
1995
Film
Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki
Self (archive footage)
Film
Drowning Fish
Ace no Jo
2001
Film
Retaliation
Hino
1968
Film
The Maid's Kid
1955
Film
死の壁の脱出
Jiro Asaoka
1958
Film
Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
Black Jack
1977
Film
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
Cop
1977
Film
A Colt Is My Passport
Shuji Kamimura
1967
Film
The Rough One
Imano's Bodyguard
1969
Film
Bad Girl Mako
Yasuoka
1971
Film
Danger Pays
Jôji Kondô
1962
Kingorô no omawari-san
1956
Film
Chivalrous Outlaw
1963
Film
His Highness Surabaya
Applied Atomic Energy Research Institute Worker with a Tohoku Accent
1955
Film
Temptation
Goro Yasui
1957
Film
Asia-Pol
George
1967
Film
The Guitarist from the Sea
1960
Film
Thirteen Times a Loser
Seiji Okitsu
1969
Film
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
1966
Film
New Shameless School
Gebageba
1971
Film
The Sea of Genkai
Sawaki
1976
Film
Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
Masaki Yoshihara
1957
Film
Ex Convict: Sword Storm
1969
Film
Shameless School
Macaroni
1970
Film
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1972
Film
Katayoku dake no tenshi
1986
Film
This Heartbeat
1988
Film
Velvet Hustler
1967
Nurse's Husband
1980
Film
Muhō Ichidai
1957
Film
Shiawase wa doko ni
Tetsuo Shimura
1956
Film
Cruel Gun Story
Togawa
1964
Film
Profile of a Boss' Son
1970
Film
Again
1984
Film
Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
1969
Film
Fossilized Wilderness
1982
Film
Massacre Gun
Ryûichi Kuroda
1967
Film
8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
Dr. Tani
1992
Film
This Is Home
1956
Film
The Champion
Boxer Ishiyama
1957
Film
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
Gin of the Colt
1960
Film
The Cards Will Tell
1960
Film
Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Kokichi Yamaguch
1966
Film
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
1972
Film
Biographies of Killers
1969
Film
Murder Unincorporated
Jiro (Joe of Spades)
1965
Film
Yabanjin no Nekutai
1969
Film
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Hideo Tajima
1963
Film
The Rambling Guitarist
George
1959
Film
Nozomi Witches
Ryotaro's father
1990
Film
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
1970
Film
Turning Point
Hashizume
1994
Film
Voice Without a Shadow
Hamazaki
1958
Film
Chivalrous Pride
1969
Film
My Pistol Is Quick
Airplane Passenger
1954
Film
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
2000
Film
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
Macaroni
1970
Film
The Boy Who Came Back
Kajita
1958
Film
To Love
Chinen
1997
Film
Three Stray Dogs
1965
Film
Wounded Beast
1959
Film
Remembering the Cosmos Flower
1997
Film
Take It Easy
1986
Film
The Angry Rambler
1960
Film
Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
2001
Film
Tale on Kanto Chivalry
Masa from Kanto
1963
Film
Fugitive Alien
Captain Joe
1987
Film
Glass-Hearted Johnny
Jô
1962
Film
Stardust Wharf
1968
Film
Your Life
1966
Film
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961
Film
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
1969
Film
Traces of Lead
1962
Film
The Naked Woman and the Gun
1957
Film
Shin Japan's Don: Waves
2004
Film
Seishun wo warera ni
Takai
1956
Film
Love Eternal
1966
Film
Ore no sora
Genjiro Yasuda
1977
Film
The Frozen Plains
1962
Film
Crime Reporter
Fujimoto
1959
Film
Exiled to Hell
1969
Film
Notorious Bastard
Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)
1963
Film
Burning Clouds
1967
Film
Called to the Stand
1956
Film
The Aftermath of War
1967
Film
Asiapol Secret Service
George Eaton
1966
Film
The Hard Core Criminal
1973
Film
Center of Tokyo
Hyodo
1974
Film
Blood for Blood
Naoto Tezuka
1971
Film
Wind of Volcano
1960
Film
魔性の女
1968
Film
Sukanpin Walk
Tatsuya Sekikawa
1984
Film
Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless
2004
Film
The Human Cyclone
Masa
1959
Film
Danger Point: The Road to Hell
1991
Film
Women's House
Okada (employee of Inogawa's company)
1954
Film
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
2007
Film
Charming Men
Kobe Saburo
1970
Film
Merciless Bullet
Yukie's lover
1959
Film
Rusty Knife
Shimabara
1958
Film
The Beauty in the Black Mask
Takeo Sato
1987
Film
JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
1993
Film
Policeman's Diary
Patrolman Yabuta
1955
Film
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960
Film
Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
Tornado George / Jouji Tatsumaki
1965
Film
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
1970
Film
God's Pinch Hitter
1991
Film
Caribe: Symphony of Love
Shunsuke Saichu
1985
Film
You'll Fall For Me
1989
Film
Shin Japan's Don 5
2005
Film
Gambling Code and Feuds
Katsuya Sekikawa
1977
Film
We Live Today
1959
Film
Mighty Rules
1959
Film
Hometown
1999
Film
Gambler in the Sea
1961
Film
The Gambler
Joe of Aces
1992
Film
The Witty Samurai
1972
Film
The First Catch
1980
Film
Last Round
1962
Film
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
Hideo Tajima
1963
Film
Tale on Tokai Chivalry
1964
Kanshō fujin
1956
Film
Kimagure tosei
1962
Film
Heisei Kin'yudo: Muruhi no Onna
2000
Film
Class Reunion
2004
Film
Proud Ambition 3
2005
Film
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
1961
Film
Solo Traveler
1962
Film
Proud Ambition 2
2006
Film
The Man with a Sinister Laugh
Ken
1960
Film
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1961
Film
Greatest Boss of Japan
1970
Film
Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
Macaroni
1970
Film
Yakuza Jihad
2002
Film
Hell Festival
Tetsu the Otter
1963
Film
The Gun Like Lightning
Goro
1960
Film
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
Captain Joe
1987
Film
Gun of Nosappu
1961
Film
Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
1994
Film
Proud Ambition
2006
Film
The Killers
1991
Film
Pacific Porters
1961
Film
Cell No. 8
1956
Film
A Man's World
1971
Film
Ofukuro
1955
Film
Shin Japan's Don 6
2005
Film
Jūdan no arashi
1962
Film
Outlaw's Gold
三鬼鉄
1967
Film
Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
1971
Film
The Cleanup
1969
Film
Who is in the Background?
1959
Film
Tough Cop - Ginza Police
1994
Film
Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
1958
Film
Our Wedding
1983
Film
Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
1965
Film
Shin Japan's Don 4
2005
Film
The Dragon and the Tiger
1966
Film
The Alaska Story
1977
Film
I'll End in Hell
Joji Dan
1961
Film
Monk's Paradise
1971
Film
Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
1973
Film
Fukushu no Teio
Kazunari Inaba
1995
The Happy Dancers
1956
Film
Zattō ni hikarume
1959
Film
Taiyō o buchi otose
1958
Film
The Crimson Plains
Joji Sakuma
1961
Film
100 Gamblers
1969
Film
Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
1964
The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
1991
Film
Gun Number Zero
1959
Film
Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
Jo of the Colt
1960
Film
A Surgeon Named Hitman
2006
Film
Tokyo no Kodoku
1959
Film
Tough Cop 2 - HEART CRASH
1995
Film
Nuki uchi fūraibō
1962
Film
Yakyuukyou no Uta
1985
Film
Run the Beast
1990
Film
Mexico Drifter
1962
Film
Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
1970
Film
Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
1965
Film
Red Shoes and a Good-For-Nothing
1963
Film
Small Rats of the Edo Town
Hidematsu
1957
Film
The Doctor
1955
Film
Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
Joe of Aces
1964
Film
Breasts and Bullets
1958
Film
Crimson Pistol
1961
Film
Proud Ambition 4
2006
Film
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
1961
Film
Proud Ambition 5
2006