Joe Shishido
Born: 1933-12-06 in Kita, Osaka, Japan
Died: 2020-01-18
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2012
- The Final Judgement as Lao Porto
2010
- A Night In Nude: Salvation as Naoki Yamagami
2009
- The Code as Detective 500
2007
- Switching – Goodbye Me as Yoshinosuke Yoshida
- Kisaragi as Ooiso Long Beach Host
- Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
2005
2002
2001
- Drowning Fish as Ace no Jo
- Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
1999
1997
- To Love as Chinen
- Remembering the Cosmos Flower
1996
- The Trap as Jo Shishido
1995
- The Files of the Young Kindaichi as Fujio Tashiro
- The Stairway to the Distant Past as Jo Shishido
- Fukushu no Teio as Kazunari Inaba
- Tough Cop 2 - HEART CRASH
1994
1992
- The Setting Sun
- 8 Man - For All Lonely Nights as Dr. Tani
- The Gambler as Joe of Aces
1991
1990
- Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet as Junichi Mizuta
- Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
- Nozomi Witches as Ryotaro's father
- Run the Beast
1989
- Red Crow and the Ghost Ship as Captain
- You'll Fall For Me
1988
- Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis as Tokuji Hayakawa
- This Heartbeat
1987
- Fugitive Alien as Captain Joe
- The Beauty in the Black Mask as Takeo Sato
- Star Force: Fugitive Alien II as Captain Joe
1986
- Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast as School Principal
- Leave My Girl Alone as Bar Owner
- Katayoku dake no tenshi
- Take It Easy
1985
- I'm All Yours as Priest
- Yakyuukyou no Uta
- Caribe: Symphony of Love as Shunsuke Saichu
1984
- Again
- Sukanpin Walk as Tatsuya Sekikawa
1983
1982
- I Are You, You Am Me as Kouzou Saitoh
- Fossilized Wilderness
1981
- Pro Hunter as 菊島雄三
- Edo Porn as Jyuppensha Ikku
- Blue Jeans Memory
1978
- Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
- Star Wolf as Captain Joe
- Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron as Tominoichi
1977
- Dazzling Cops
- Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye as Black Jack
- High Seas Hijack as Chief Engineer Kosai
- A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness as Cop
- Ore no sora as Genjiro Yasuda
- The Alaska Story
- Gambling Code and Feuds as Katsuya Sekikawa
1976
- Big City: Days of Struggle
- Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow as Gendō
- The Sea of Genkai as Sawaki
1975
- Conflagration as Chief Engineer Kosai
1974
- Blitz!! Strada 5 as Takamura Terujiro / Jupiter
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as Katsutoshi Otomo
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Hachiro Tachibana
- Center of Tokyo as Hyodo
1972
1971
- Go As Messy As Messy Can Be as Mujitori
- Bad Girl Mako as Yasuoka
- Blood for Blood as Naoto Tezuka
- Monk's Paradise
- New Shameless School as Gebageba
- A Man's World
- Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
1970
- Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude as Macaroni
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
- Profile of a Boss' Son
- Shameless School: Tackle Kiss as Macaroni
- Shameless School as Macaroni
- Greatest Boss of Japan
- A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
- Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
- Charming Men as Kobe Saburo
1969
1968
- Retaliation as Hino
- Stardust Wharf
- 魔性の女
1967
- Branded to Kill as Gorô Hanada
- A Colt Is My Passport as Shuji Kamimura
- Asia-Pol as George
- The Return of the Filthy Seven
- Velvet Hustler
- Massacre Gun as Ryûichi Kuroda
- My Sweetheart as President Shishido
- Burning Clouds
- The Aftermath of War
- Outlaw's Gold as 三鬼鉄
1966
- Blood Shed as Seiji
- Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph as Kokichi Yamaguch
- Love Eternal
- Love and Desire in the Night Mist
- Asiapol Secret Service as George Eaton
- Your Life
- The Dragon and the Tiger
1965
- Three Stray Dogs
- The Dragon of Macao as Aizu
- Murder Unincorporated as Jiro (Joe of Spades)
- Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
- Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
- Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi as Tornado George / Jouji Tatsumaki
1964
- Gate of Flesh as Shintaro Ibuki
- Cruel Gun Story as Togawa
- Jinsei Gekijo
- Tiger of the Sea
- Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel as Joe of Aces
- Tale on Tokai Chivalry
- Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
1963
- Youth of the Beast as Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno
- Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! as Hideo Tajima
- Chivalrous Outlaw
- Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women as Hideo Tajima
- Notorious Bastard as Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)
- Tale on Kanto Chivalry as Masa from Kanto
- Hell Festival as Tetsu the Otter
- Akai ka to Rokudenashi
1962
1961
- Quick Draw Joe as Joe the Ace
- Pacific Porters
- The Rambler under the Southern Cross
- Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
- Joe of Aces: Give and Take as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
- Crimson Pistol
- The Crimson Plains as Joji Sakuma
- Gambler in the Sea
- I'll End in Hell as Joji Dan
- Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
- Gun of Nosappu
1960
- The Rambler in the Sunset
- The Rambler Rides Again
- Ryuji, the Gun Slinger as Gin of the Colt
- The Guitarist and the Rancher
- The Gun Like Lightning as Goro
- Return of the Vagabond
- The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
- The Angry Rambler
- Wind of Volcano
- The Man with a Sinister Laugh as Ken
- The Guitarist from the Sea
- The Cards Will Tell
- Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow as Jo of the Colt
1959
- The Rambling Guitarist as George
- Who is in the Background?
- Machi ga nemuru toki
- Gun Number Zero
- Tokyo no Kodoku
- The Human Cyclone as Masa
- Zattō ni hikarume
- Mighty Rules
- Wounded Beast
- Merciless Bullet as Yukie's lover
- We Live Today
- Crime Reporter as Fujimoto
1958
- Rusty Knife as Shimabara
- The Boy Who Came Back as Kajita
- Voice Without a Shadow as Hamazaki
- Taiyō o buchi otose
- Breasts and Bullets
- Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
1957
- The Champion as Boxer Ishiyama
- Temptation as Goro Yasui
- Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16 as Masaki Yoshihara
- The Naked Woman and the Gun
- Small Rats of the Edo Town as Hidematsu
- Muhō Ichidai
1956
- Frankie the Milkman as Zenkichi Matsubara
- Confession
- Kingorô no omawari-san
- Shiawase wa doko ni as Tetsuo Shimura
- This Is Home
- Cell No. 8
- Called to the Stand
- The Happy Dancers
- Kanshō fujin
- Seishun wo warera ni as Takai
1955
- The Maid's Kid
- Ofukuro
- Tsukiyo no kasa
- Policeman's Diary as Patrolman Yabuta
- His Highness Surabaya as Applied Atomic Energy Research Institute Worker with a Tohoku Accent
- The Doctor
1954
- The Black Current as Newspaper Reporter
- Women's House as Okada (employee of Inogawa's company)
- My Pistol Is Quick as Airplane Passenger