Joe Shishido

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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).

Known For

Branded to Kill

Gorô Hanada

Youth of the Beast

Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno

Gate of Flesh

Shintaro Ibuki

A Colt Is My Passport

Shuji Kamimura

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

Katsutoshi Otomo

Edo Porn

Jyuppensha Ikku

Flower & Snake II

Self

Kisaragi

Ooiso Long Beach Host

Full Filmography

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

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