Actor · Acting

Joe Shishido

Born 1933-12-06

Died 2020-01-18

📍 Kita, Osaka, Japan

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

The Final Judgement

Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3

A Night In Nude: Salvation

as Naoki Yamagami

as Detective 500

Switching – Goodbye Me

as Yoshinosuke Yoshida

as Ooiso Long Beach Host

Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2

Proud Ambition 5

Proud Ambition 4

Proud Ambition 2

A Surgeon Named Hitman

Detective Office 5

Detective Office 5: Another Story

Detective Office 5: Another Story

Shin Japan's Don 6

Proud Ambition 3

Flower & Snake II

Shin Japan's Don 5

Shin Japan's Don 4

Alumni Association

Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless

Shin Japan's Don: Waves

Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street

Debt King Part VII: Millennium

Remembering the Cosmos Flower

Fukushu no Teio

as Kazunari Inaba

The Files of the Young Kindaichi

as Fujio Tashiro

The Stairway to the Distant Past

The Most Terrible Time in My Life

Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong

Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death

JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet

The Setting Sun

8 Man - For All Lonely Nights

Danger Point: The Road to Hell

God's Pinch Hitter

Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet

as Junichi Mizuta

as 角倉勘次

Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba

Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet

as Junichi Mizuta

as Ryotaro's father

You'll Fall For Me

Red Crow and the Ghost Ship

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

as Tokuji Hayakawa

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

as Noritsugu Hayakawa

Star Force: Fugitive Alien II

The Beauty in the Black Mask

Leave My Girl Alone

Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

as School Principal

Katayoku dake no tenshi

Caribe: Symphony of Love

as Shunsuke Saichu

Yakyuukyou no Uta

as Tatsuya Sekikawa

I Are You, You Am Me

as Kouzou Saitoh

Fossilized Wilderness

as Jyuppensha Ikku

Blue Jeans Memory

as 菊島雄三

The First Catch

Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji

Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen

Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye

High Seas Hijack

as Chief Engineer Kosai

Gambling Code and Feuds

as Katsuya Sekikawa

as Genjiro Yasuda

A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness

The Alaska Story

Big City: Days of Struggle

The Sea of Genkai

Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow

as Chief Engineer Kosai

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

as Hachiro Tachibana

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

as Katsutoshi Otomo

Center of Tokyo

Blitz!! Strada 5

as Takamura Terujiro / Jupiter

The Hard Core Criminal

None But the Brave

Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari

New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm

New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line

The Witty Samurai

Monk's Paradise

Blood for Blood

as Naoto Tezuka

Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu

Go As Messy As Messy Can Be

New Shameless School

Shameless School: Tackle Kiss

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri

Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude

Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa

Shameless School

A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life

Greatest Boss of Japan

Profile of a Boss' Son

Biographies of Killers

Thirteen Times a Loser

as Seiji Okitsu

Chivalrous Pride

Ex Convict: Sword Storm

as Imano's Bodyguard

Yabanjin no Nekutai

Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

The Aftermath of War

as President Shishido

The Return of the Filthy Seven

as Ryûichi Kuroda

Branded to Kill

as Gorô Hanada

A Colt Is My Passport

as Shuji Kamimura

Asiapol Secret Service

as George Eaton

Love and Desire in the Night Mist

Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph

as Kokichi Yamaguch

The Dragon and the Tiger

The Dragon of Macao

Three Stray Dogs

Murder Unincorporated

as Jiro (Joe of Spades)

Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi

as Tornado George / Jouji Tatsumaki

Modern Yakuza: Chivalry

Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure

Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel

Tiger of the Sea

as Shintaro Ibuki

Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ

Cruel Gun Story

Tale on Tokai Chivalry

as Tetsu the Otter

Chivalrous Outlaw

Tale on Kanto Chivalry

as Masa from Kanto

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women

as Hideo Tajima

Akai ka to Rokudenashi

Youth of the Beast

as Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno

Notorious Bastard

as Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!

as Hideo Tajima

as Jôji Kondô

Glass-Hearted Johnny

Jūdan no arashi

The Frozen Plains

Nuki uchi fūraibō

Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains

I'll End in Hell

The Crimson Plains

Gambler in the Sea

Joe of Aces: Give and Take

as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)

Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living

as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)

Pacific Porters

The Rambler under the Southern Cross

Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow

as Jo of the Colt

The Angry Rambler

The Rambler Rides Again

The Rambler on a Pearl Farm

The Man with a Sinister Laugh

The Rambler in the Sunset

Wind of Volcano

The Gun Like Lightning

Return of the Vagabond

The Guitarist from the Sea

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

as Gin of the Colt

The Cards Will Tell

The Guitarist and the Rancher

Who is in the Background?

The Rambling Guitarist

The Human Cyclone

Merciless Bullet

as Yukie's lover

Tokyo no Kodoku

Machi ga nemuru toki

Gun Number Zero

Zattō ni hikarume

Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha

Voice Without a Shadow

Taiyō o buchi otose

The Boy Who Came Back

Breasts and Bullets

The Naked Woman and the Gun

Small Rats of the Edo Town

as Boxer Ishiyama

Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16

as Masaki Yoshihara

Frankie the Milkman

as Zenkichi Matsubara

Shiawase wa doko ni

as Tetsuo Shimura

Seishun wo warera ni

Tsukiyo no kasa

Policeman's Diary

as Patrolman Yabuta

His Highness Surabaya

as Applied Atomic Energy Research Institute Worker with a Tohoku Accent

My Pistol Is Quick

as Airplane Passenger

as Okada (employee of Inogawa's company)

The Black Current

as Newspaper Reporter