Joe Shishido
Acting
Born: December 6, 1933 · Kita, Osaka, Japan
Died: January 18, 2020 (aged 86)
Highest Rated
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
1967
Youth of the Beast
1963
Gate of Flesh
1964
A Colt Is My Passport
1967
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1974
Edo Porn
1981
Flower & Snake II
2005
Kisaragi
2007
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
1963
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1988
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978
Cruel Gun Story
1964
Photos (6)
Movies (234)
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Junichi Mizuta
Flower & Snake II
Takayoshi Tooyama
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Junichi Mizuta
Edo Porn
Jyuppensha Ikku
A Colt Is My Passport
Shuji Kamimura
Branded to Kill
Gorô Hanada
The Return of the Filthy Seven
1967
The Trap
Jo Shishido
Cruel Gun Story
Togawa
Gate of Flesh
Shintaro Ibuki
Youth of the Beast
Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno
I'm All Yours
Priest
I Are You, You Am Me
Kouzou Saitoh
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
1969
Blood for Blood
Naoto Tezuka
The Code
Detective 500
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
School Principal
High Seas Hijack
Chief Engineer Kosai
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Tokuji Hayakawa
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Noritsugu Hayakawa
100 Gamblers
1969
The Dragon of Macao
Aizu
None But the Brave
1973
Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
Mujitori
Kisaragi
Ooiso Long Beach Host
Shin Japan's Don 4
2005
Tiger of the Sea
1964
The Setting Sun
1992
Conflagration
Chief Engineer Kosai
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Tominoichi
The Stairway to the Distant Past
Jo Shishido
The Final Judgement
Lao Porto
Confession
1956
Muhō Ichidai
1957
Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
Captain
A Night in Nude: Salvation
Naoki Yamagami
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
Hideo Tajima
Machi ga nemuru toki
1959
Drowning Fish
Ace no Jo
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
2007
Jinsei Gekijo
1964
Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
1990
Exiled to Hell
1969
Gun of Nosappu
1961
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Hideo Tajima
Leave My Girl Alone
Bar Owner
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
1966
The Rambler Rides Again
1960
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
2011
The Black Current
Newspaper Reporter
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
2000
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Katsutoshi Otomo
Kimagure tosei
1962
Murder Unincorporated
Jiro (Joe of Spades)
Bad Girl Mako
Yasuoka
Danger Point: The Road to Hell
1991
Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
Black Jack
The Guitarist and the Rancher
1960
Frankie the Milkman
Zenkichi Matsubara
Asia-Pol
George
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Joe
Retaliation
Hino
Crime Reporter
Fujimoto
Switching – Goodbye Me
Yoshinosuke Yoshida
The Rough One
Imano's Bodyguard
Blood Shed
Seiji
The Guitarist from the Sea
1960
My Sweetheart
President Shishido
Yabanjin no Nekutai
1969
The Rambler in the Sunset
1960
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
1993
Glass-Hearted Johnny
Jô
Thirteen Times a Loser
Seiji Okitsu
The Beauty in the Black Mask
Takeo Sato
Quick Draw Joe
Joe the Ace
Detective Office 5
500
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Hachiro Tachibana
Danger Pays
Jôji Kondô
The Maid's Kid
1955
Tsukiyo no kasa
1955
Velvet Hustler
1967
Your Life
1966
Gun Number Zero
1959
His Highness Surabaya
Applied Atomic Energy Research Institute Worker with a Tohoku Accent
Fugitive Alien
Captain Joe
Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
Masaki Yoshihara
Voice Without a Shadow
Hamazaki
Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Kokichi Yamaguch
Turning Point
Hashizume
The Aftermath of War
1967
The Cards Will Tell
1960
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
Cop
Massacre Gun
Ryûichi Kuroda
Fossilized Wilderness
1982
Ore no sora
Genjiro Yasuda
Shiawase wa doko ni
Tetsuo Shimura
My Pistol Is Quick
Airplane Passenger
Charming Men
Kobe Saburo
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1972
Gambler in the Sea
1961
New Shameless School
Gebageba
Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
1971
Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
Tornado George / Jouji Tatsumaki
Yakuza Jihad
2002
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
1970
Solo Traveler
1962
Notorious Bastard
Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)
Temptation
Goro Yasui
Our Wedding
1983
Wind of Volcano
1960
Rusty Knife
Shimabara
Asiapol Secret Service
George Eaton
8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
Dr. Tani
Blue Jeans Memory
1981
Again
1984
The Sea of Genkai
Sawaki
The Champion
Boxer Ishiyama
The Man with a Sinister Laugh
Ken
The Boy Who Came Back
Kajita
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960
Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
1969
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
Jūdan no arashi
1962
Traces of Lead
1962
The Dragon and the Tiger
1966
Wounded Beast
1959
Return of the Vagabond
1960
The Gambler
Joe of Aces
Tale on Kanto Chivalry
Masa from Kanto
The Killers
1991
Proud Ambition 3
2005
The Naked Woman and the Gun
1957
Nozomi Witches
Ryotaro's father
The Frozen Plains
1962
Shin Japan's Don 6
2005
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
Captain Joe
Monk's Paradise
1971
Merciless Bullet
Yukie's lover
Fukushu no Teio
Kazunari Inaba
This Heartbeat
1988
Policeman's Diary
Patrolman Yabuta
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
Macaroni
Yakyuukyou no Uta
1985
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
1970
Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
1965
Seishun wo warera ni
Takai
Center of Tokyo
Hyodo
The First Catch
1980
Run the Beast
1990
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
Gin of the Colt
Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
1994
Greatest Boss of Japan
1970
Who is in the Background?
1959
A Man's World
1971
Ofukuro
1955
Called to the Stand
1956
Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
Macaroni
The Human Cyclone
Masa
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
To Love
Chinen
The Hard Core Criminal
1973
Tale on Tokai Chivalry
1964
Zattō ni hikarume
1959
Pacific Porters
1961
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961
Proud Ambition 4
2006
Tough Cop 2 - HEART CRASH
1995
Mexico Drifter
1962
Hometown
1999
Remembering the Cosmos Flower
1997
Women's House
Okada (employee of Inogawa's company)
Katayoku dake no tenshi
1986
Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
1970
Hell Festival
Tetsu the Otter
Last Round
1962
Caribe: Symphony of Love
Shunsuke Saichu
Crimson Pistol
1961
Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
2001
Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
1973
The Gun Like Lightning
Goro
The Cleanup
1969
Cell No. 8
1956
Tokyo no Kodoku
1959
The Angry Rambler
1960
Chivalrous Pride
1969
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
1972
The Rambling Guitarist
George
Love Eternal
1966
Shin Japan's Don: Waves
2004
You'll Fall For Me
1989
Shameless School
Macaroni
Mighty Rules
1959
Gambling Code and Feuds
Katsuya Sekikawa
The Witty Samurai
1972
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1961
Ex Convict: Sword Storm
1969
God's Pinch Hitter
1991
Burning Clouds
1967
Chivalrous Outlaw
1963
Sukanpin Walk
Tatsuya Sekikawa
Biographies of Killers
1969
Class Reunion
2004
The Doctor
1955
Stardust Wharf
1968
Heisei Kin'yudo: Muruhi no Onna
2000
Three Stray Dogs
1965
The Alaska Story
1977
JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
1993
Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
1965
Take It Easy
1986
Small Rats of the Edo Town
Hidematsu
Outlaw's Gold
三鬼鉄
Breasts and Bullets
1958
Profile of a Boss' Son
1970
Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
1964
We Live Today
1959
A Surgeon Named Hitman
2006
This Is Home
1956
Proud Ambition
2006
死の壁の脱出
Jiro Asaoka
魔性の女
1968
Nuki uchi fūraibō
1962
Red Shoes and a Good-For-Nothing
1963
Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
Joe of Aces
Proud Ambition 2
2006
Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless
2004
Proud Ambition 5
2006
Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
Jo of the Colt
I'll End in Hell
Joji Dan
The Crimson Plains
Joji Sakuma
Taiyō o buchi otose
1958
Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
1958
Tough Cop - Ginza Police
1994
Shin Japan's Don 5
2005
TV Shows (14)
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
Fujio Tashiro · 2 eps
Big City: Days of Struggle
31 eps
Detective Office 5: Another Story
Chief 500 · 3 eps
Detective Office 5: Another Story
50 eps
Key Hunter
1 eps
Kimi no na wa
角倉勘次 · 312 eps
Pro Hunter
菊島雄三 · 25 eps
Blitz!! Strada 5
Takamura Terujiro / Jupiter · 13 eps
Dazzling Cops
1 eps
Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
Gendō · 52 eps
Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
40 eps
Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen
26 eps
Star Wolf
Captain Joe · 24 eps
Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji
26 eps
