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 (235)
Flower & Snake II
Takayoshi Tooyama
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Junichi Mizuta
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Junichi Mizuta
Youth of the Beast
Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno
Branded to Kill
Gorô Hanada
Edo Porn
Jyuppensha Ikku
Conflagration
Chief Engineer Kosai
The Drifter from the Sea
1960
Gate of Flesh
Shintaro Ibuki
Turning Point
Hashizume
Nozomi Witches
Ryotaro's father
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Katsutoshi Otomo
A Colt is My Passport
Shuji Kamimura
Thirteen Times a Loser
Seiji Okitsu
None But the Brave
1973
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Hachiro Tachibana
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Tokuji Hayakawa
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Noritsugu Hayakawa
High Seas Hijack
Chief Engineer Kosai
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Hideo Tajima
Biographies of Killers
1969
Muhō Ichidai
1957
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
Cop
The Stairway to the Distant Past
Jo Shishido
The Wild, Unruly Drifter
1960
Cruel Gun Story
Togawa
You'll Fall For Me
1989
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
School Principal
I'm All Yours
Priest
I Are You, You Am Me
Kouzou Saitoh
Retaliation
Hino
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
2000
Stardust Wharf
1968
The Killers
1991
Last Round
1962
Danger Pays
Jôji Kondô
Bad Girl Mako
Yasuoka
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Tominoichi
Women of Ginza
1955
The Hard Core Criminal
1973
Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
Black Jack
Switching – Goodbye Me
Yoshinosuke Yoshida
A Night in Nude: Salvation
Naoki Yamagami
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
1970
Called to the Stand
Hotta
Fossilized Wilderness
1982
The Code
Detective 500
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
2007
Massacre Gun
Ryûichi Kuroda
Policeman's Diary
Patrolman Yabuta
Kisaragi
Ooiso Long Beach Host
The Cards Will Tell
1960
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
Macaroni
死の壁の脱出
Jiro Asaoka
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
1966
The Trap
Jo Shishido
Yabanjin no Nekutai
1969
The Champion
Boxer Ishiyama
Greatest Boss of Japan
1970
Gun of Nosappu
1961
Gambling Code and Feuds
Katsuya Sekikawa
Caribe: Symphony of Love
Shunsuke Saichu
Blood for Blood
Naoto Tezuka
Leave My Girl Alone
Bar Owner
The Maid's Kid
1955
Detective Office 5
500
The Man with a Sinister Laugh
Ken
The Rambling Guitarist
George
To Love
Chinen
Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
Macaroni
Who is in the Background?
1959
Wounded Beast
1959
The Return of the Filthy Seven
1967
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
1969
Pacific Porters
1961
The Gun Like Lightning
Goro
Tokyo no Kodoku
1959
Rusty Knife
Shimabara
Heisei Kin'yudo: Muruhi no Onna
2000
Voice Without a Shadow
Hamazaki
100 Gamblers
1969
Center of Tokyo
Hyodo
Shameless School
Macaroni
Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
1971
Drowning Fish
Ace no Jo
Temptation
Goro Yasui
Velvet Hustler
1967
The Sea of Genkai
Sawaki
Crimson Pistol
1961
Yakyuukyou no Uta
1985
Kimagure tosei
1962
Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
1973
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1972
Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
1964
Tale on Tokai Chivalry
1964
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Joe
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
Gin of the Colt
New Shameless School
Gebageba
Exiled to Hell
1969
Ofukuro
1955
Proud Ambition
2006
Chivalrous Pride
1969
Sukanpin Walk
Tatsuya Sekikawa
The Crimson Plains
Joji Sakuma
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
1970
The Human Cyclone
Masa
Jūdan no arashi
1962
Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
1990
Danger Point: The Road to Hell
1991
Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
1958
Seishun wo warera ni
Takai
The Rough One
Imano's Bodyguard
Murder Unincorporated
Jiro (Joe of Spades)
Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Kokichi Yamaguch
Love Eternal
1966
Ore no sora
Genjiro Yasuda
Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
Joe of Aces
Cell No. 8
1956
Nuki uchi fūraibō
1962
Red Shoes and a Good-For-Nothing
1963
Monk's Paradise
1971
Blue Jeans Memory
1981
Yakuza Jihad
2002
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961
Mighty Rules
1959
Gun Number Zero
1959
The Cleanup
1969
Glass-Hearted Johnny
Jô
The Aftermath of War
1967
This Is Home
1956
Proud Ambition 3
2005
Fukushu no Teio
Kazunari Inaba
Charming Men
Kobe Saburo
We Live Today
1959
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960
Breasts and Bullets
1958
My Sweetheart
President Shishido
Asia-Pol
George
Jinsei Gekijo
1964
Mexico Drifter
1962
I'll End in Hell
Joji Dan
His Highness Surabaya
Applied Atomic Energy Research Institute Worker with a Tohoku Accent
8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
Dr. Tani
The Naked Woman and the Gun
1957
Taiyō o buchi otose
1958
The Alaska Story
George Oshima
This Heartbeat
1988
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1961
Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
Captain
Proud Ambition 4
2006
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
1972
Gambler in the Sea
1961
Tale on Kanto Chivalry
Masa from Kanto
A Man's World
1971
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
1993
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
Captain Joe
Profile of a Boss' Son
1970
Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
1965
Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
2001
Women's House
Okada (employee of Inogawa's company)
Return of the Vagabond
1960
The Dragon of Macao
Aizu
Hometown
1999
Our Wedding
1983
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
2011
The Frozen Plains
1962
Frankie the Milkman
Zenkichi Matsubara
Remembering the Cosmos Flower
1997
Take It Easy
1986
The Dragon and the Tiger
1966
The Setting Sun
1992
Hell Festival
Tetsu the Otter
The Gambler
Joe of Aces
Zattō ni hikarume
1959
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
Hideo Tajima
Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
1994
The Rambler Rides Again
1960
Small Rats of the Edo Town
Hidematsu
The First Catch
1980
Three Stray Dogs
1965
Solo Traveler
1962
The Black Current
Newspaper Reporter
Again
1984
The Doctor
1955
The Boy Who Came Back
Kajita
Your Life
1966
Tiger of the Sea
1964
JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
1993
Asiapol Secret Service
George Eaton
Tsukiyo no kasa
1955
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
Volcano Wind
1960
Shiawase wa doko ni
Tetsuo Shimura
Blood Shed
Seiji
Fugitive Alien
Captain Joe
Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
1969
God's Pinch Hitter
1991
The Final Judgement
Lao Porto
Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
1970
Burning Clouds
1967
Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
Jo of the Colt
Notorious Bastard
Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
Confession
1956
Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
Mujitori
Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
Masaki Yoshihara
Proud Ambition 5
2006
Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
1965
Quick Draw Joe
Joe the Ace
The Witty Samurai
1972
My Pistol Is Quick
Airplane Passenger
魔性の女
1968
The Guitarist and the Rancher
1960
The Beauty in the Black Mask
Takeo Sato
Ex Convict: Sword Storm
1969
Proud Ambition 2
2006
Machi ga nemuru toki
1959
Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless
2004
Merciless Bullet
Yukie's lover
Traces of Lead
1962
Run the Beast
1990
Katayoku dake no tenshi
1986
Chivalrous Outlaw
1963
Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
Tornado George / Jouji Tatsumaki
Crime Reporter
Fujimoto
Outlaw's Gold
三鬼鉄
The Rambler in the Sunset
1960
A Surgeon Named Hitman
2006
Shin Japan's Don: Waves
2004
Shin Japan's Don 5
2005
Class Reunion
2004
Shin Japan's Don 6
2005
Shin Japan's Don 4
2005
Tough Cop 2 - HEART CRASH
1995
Tough Cop - Ginza Police
1994
TV Shows (14)
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
Fujio Tashiro · 2 eps
Kimi no na wa
角倉勘次 · 312 eps
Key Hunter
1 eps
Pro Hunter
菊島雄三 · 25 eps
Detective Office 5: Another Story
Chief 500 · 3 eps
Detective Office 5: Another Story
50 eps
Big City: Days of Struggle
31 eps
Blitz!! Strada 5
Takamura Terujiro / Jupiter · 13 eps
Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
40 eps
Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
Gendō · 52 eps
Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen
26 eps
Star Wolf
Captain Joe · 24 eps
Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji
26 eps
Dazzling Cops
1 eps
