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
- Kisaragi as Ooiso Long Beach Host
- Switching – Goodbye Me as Yoshinosuke Yoshida
- Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
2005
2002
2001
- Drowning Fish as Ace no Jo
- Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
1999
1997
- Remembering the Cosmos Flower
- To Love as Chinen
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
1994
- Turning Point as Hashizume
- The Most Terrible Time in My Life as Joe
- Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
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
- Star Force: Fugitive Alien II as Captain Joe
- Fugitive Alien as Captain Joe
- The Beauty in the Black Mask as Takeo Sato
1986
- Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast as School Principal
- Leave My Girl Alone as Bar Owner
- Take It Easy
- Katayoku dake no tenshi
1985
- I'm All Yours as Priest
- Caribe: Symphony of Love as Shunsuke Saichu
- Yakyuukyou no Uta
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
- Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron as Tominoichi
- Star Wolf as Captain Joe
1977
- Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye as Black Jack
- A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness as Cop
- Gambling Code and Feuds as Katsuya Sekikawa
- The Alaska Story
- Ore no sora as Genjiro Yasuda
- Dazzling Cops
- High Seas Hijack as Chief Engineer Kosai
1976
- Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow as Gendō
- Big City: Days of Struggle
- 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
- Blood for Blood as Naoto Tezuka
- Bad Girl Mako as Yasuoka
- A Man's World
- New Shameless School as Gebageba
- Go As Messy As Messy Can Be as Mujitori
- Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
- Monk's Paradise
1970
- Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude as Macaroni
- A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
- Shameless School as Macaroni
- Greatest Boss of Japan
- Shameless School: Tackle Kiss as Macaroni
- Profile of a Boss' Son
- Charming Men as Kobe Saburo
- Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
1969
1968
- Retaliation as Hino
- 魔性の女
- Stardust Wharf
1967
- Branded to Kill as Gorô Hanada
- My Sweetheart as President Shishido
- A Colt Is My Passport as Shuji Kamimura
- Velvet Hustler
- The Aftermath of War
- Asia-Pol as George
- Massacre Gun as Ryûichi Kuroda
- Burning Clouds
- The Return of the Filthy Seven
- Outlaw's Gold as 三鬼鉄
1966
- Love Eternal
- Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph as Kokichi Yamaguch
- The Dragon and the Tiger
- Asiapol Secret Service as George Eaton
- Your Life
- Love and Desire in the Night Mist
- Blood Shed as Seiji
1965
- 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
- The Dragon of Macao as Aizu
- Three Stray Dogs
1964
- Gate of Flesh as Shintaro Ibuki
- Cruel Gun Story as Togawa
- Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel as Joe of Aces
- Tale on Tokai Chivalry
- Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
- Tiger of the Sea
- Jinsei Gekijo
1963
- 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
- Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women as Hideo Tajima
- Akai ka to Rokudenashi
- Chivalrous Outlaw
- Hell Festival as Tetsu the Otter
- Tale on Kanto Chivalry as Masa from Kanto
1962
1961
- The Rambler under the Southern Cross
- Crimson Pistol
- Pacific Porters
- Joe of Aces: Give and Take as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
- The Crimson Plains as Joji Sakuma
- Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
- Gun of Nosappu
- I'll End in Hell as Joji Dan
- Gambler in the Sea
- Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
- Quick Draw Joe as Joe the Ace
1960
- The Gun Like Lightning as Goro
- Ryuji, the Gun Slinger as Gin of the Colt
- The Man with a Sinister Laugh as Ken
- The Cards Will Tell
- Wind of Volcano
- The Guitarist from the Sea
- The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
- The Angry Rambler
- Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow as Jo of the Colt
- Return of the Vagabond
- The Rambler in the Sunset
- The Rambler Rides Again
- The Guitarist and the Rancher
1959
- The Rambling Guitarist as George
- Tokyo no Kodoku
- The Human Cyclone as Masa
- Who is in the Background?
- We Live Today
- Mighty Rules
- Zattō ni hikarume
- Wounded Beast
- Merciless Bullet as Yukie's lover
- Gun Number Zero
- Crime Reporter as Fujimoto
- Machi ga nemuru toki
1958
- Voice Without a Shadow as Hamazaki
- Rusty Knife as Shimabara
- Breasts and Bullets
- The Boy Who Came Back as Kajita
- Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
- Taiyō o buchi otose
1957
- The Naked Woman and the Gun
- Small Rats of the Edo Town as Hidematsu
- Muhō Ichidai
- Temptation as Goro Yasui
- The Champion as Boxer Ishiyama
- Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16 as Masaki Yoshihara
1956
- Cell No. 8
- Kanshō fujin
- Shiawase wa doko ni as Tetsuo Shimura
- Seishun wo warera ni as Takai
- The Happy Dancers
- Called to the Stand
- This Is Home
- Kingorô no omawari-san
- Confession
- Frankie the Milkman as Zenkichi Matsubara
1955
- The Maid's Kid
- Policeman's Diary as Patrolman Yabuta
- Ofukuro
- The Doctor
- Tsukiyo no kasa
- His Highness Surabaya as Applied Atomic Energy Research Institute Worker with a Tohoku Accent
1954
- My Pistol Is Quick as Airplane Passenger
- The Black Current as Newspaper Reporter
- Women's House as Okada (employee of Inogawa's company)