Joe Shishido
Acting

Joe Shishido

Born 6 December 1933 · Kita, Osaka, Japan · Died 18 January 2020

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
Youth of the Beast
Gate of Flesh
A Colt is My Passport
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Edo Porn
Flower & Snake II
Kisaragi
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Cruel Gun Story
The Final Judgement
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
A Night in Nude: Salvation
The Code
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
Kisaragi
Switching – Goodbye Me
A Surgeon Named Hitman
Proud Ambition 2
Proud Ambition
Proud Ambition 4
Proud Ambition 5
Detective Office 5
Flower & Snake II
Proud Ambition 3
Shin Japan's Don 4
Shin Japan's Don 5
Shin Japan's Don 6
Class Reunion
Shin Japan's Don: Waves
Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless
Yakuza Jihad
Drowning Fish
Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
Heisei Kin'yudo: Muruhi no Onna
Hometown
To Love
Remembering the Cosmos Flower
The Trap
The Stairway to the Distant Past
Fukushu no Teio
Tough Cop 2 - HEART CRASH
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Turning Point
Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
Tough Cop - Ginza Police
JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
The Setting Sun
8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
The Gambler
The Killers
God's Pinch Hitter
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Danger Point: The Road to Hell
Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
Run the Beast
Nozomi Witches
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
You'll Fall For Me
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
This Heartbeat
Fugitive Alien
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
The Beauty in the Black Mask
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
Leave My Girl Alone
Take It Easy
Katayoku dake no tenshi
I'm All Yours
Caribe: Symphony of Love
Yakyuukyou no Uta
Sukanpin Walk
Again
Our Wedding
I Are You, You Am Me
Fossilized Wilderness
Edo Porn
Blue Jeans Memory
The First Catch
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
The Alaska Story
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
High Seas Hijack
Ore no sora
Gambling Code and Feuds
The Sea of Genkai
Conflagration
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Center of Tokyo
None But the Brave
Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
The Hard Core Criminal
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
The Witty Samurai
Bad Girl Mako
Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
New Shameless School
Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
A Man's World
Blood for Blood
Monk's Paradise
Greatest Boss of Japan
Profile of a Boss' Son
Charming Men
Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
Shameless School
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
The Cleanup
100 Gamblers
Exiled to Hell
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
Yabanjin no Nekutai
Chivalrous Pride
The Rough One
Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
Biographies of Killers
Ex Convict: Sword Storm
Thirteen Times a Loser
Retaliation
魔性の女
Stardust Wharf
A Colt is My Passport
Branded to Kill
Velvet Hustler
Massacre Gun
The Aftermath of War
Asia-Pol
The Return of the Filthy Seven
My Sweetheart
Burning Clouds
Outlaw's Gold
Love Eternal
Your Life
Asiapol Secret Service
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
The Dragon and the Tiger
Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Blood Shed
Murder Unincorporated
The Dragon of Macao
Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
Three Stray Dogs
Tale on Tokai Chivalry
Cruel Gun Story
Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
Gate of Flesh
Tiger of the Sea
Jinsei Gekijo
Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
Notorious Bastard
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Youth of the Beast
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
Red Shoes and a Good-For-Nothing
Hell Festival
Tale on Kanto Chivalry
Chivalrous Outlaw
Kimagure tosei
Nuki uchi fūraibō
The Frozen Plains
Solo Traveler
Last Round
Jūdan no arashi
Traces of Lead
Glass-Hearted Johnny
Danger Pays
Mexico Drifter
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
I'll End in Hell
Quick Draw Joe
The Crimson Plains
Crimson Pistol
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
Gun of Nosappu
Gambler in the Sea
Pacific Porters
The Wild, Unruly Drifter
Return of the Vagabond
The Rambler Rides Again
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
The Rambler in the Sunset
The Drifter from the Sea
Volcano Wind
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
The Gun Like Lightning
The Man with a Sinister Laugh
The Guitarist and the Rancher
Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
The Cards Will Tell
Zattō ni hikarume
Who is in the Background?
The Rambling Guitarist
Tokyo no Kodoku
The Human Cyclone
Gun Number Zero
Wounded Beast
Mighty Rules
Machi ga nemuru toki
Merciless Bullet
We Live Today
Crime Reporter
Rusty Knife
Voice Without a Shadow
The Boy Who Came Back
Taiyō o buchi otose
Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
Breasts and Bullets
死の壁の脱出
Small Rats of the Edo Town
Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
The Naked Woman and the Gun
The Champion
Temptation
Muhō Ichidai
Cell No. 8
Frankie the Milkman
Called to the Stand
Shiawase wa doko ni
Confession
Seishun wo warera ni
This Is Home
Ofukuro
The Doctor
Tsukiyo no kasa
Policeman's Diary
The Maid's Kid
His Highness Surabaya
Women of Ginza
My Pistol Is Quick
Women's House
The Black Current
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