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
2026
- Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki as Self (archive footage)
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
- Flower & Snake II莱2233.wf as Takayoshi Tooyama
- Detective Office 5: Another Story as Chief 500
- Detective Office 5 as 500
- Shin Japan's Don 5
- Shin Japan's Don 6
- Proud Ambition 3
- Shin Japan's Don 4
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
- 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
- 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
- Sukanpin Walk as Tatsuya Sekikawa
- Again
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
- High Seas Hijack as Chief Engineer Kosai
- A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness as Cop
- The Alaska Story as George Oshima
- Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye as Black Jack
- Ore no sora as Genjiro Yasuda
- 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
- Bad Girl Mako as Yasuoka
- Blood for Blood as Naoto Tezuka
- Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
- Go As Messy As Messy Can Be as Mujitori
- New Shameless School as Gebageba
- Monk's Paradise
- A Man's World
1970
- Shameless School as Macaroni
- Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude as Macaroni
- Shameless School: Tackle Kiss as Macaroni
- A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
- Greatest Boss of Japan
- Charming Men as Kobe Saburo
- Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
- Profile of a Boss' Son
1969
1968
- Key Hunter
- Retaliation as Hino
- Stardust Wharf
- 魔性の女
1967
- Branded to Kill as Gorô Hanada
- The Return of the Filthy Seven
- Velvet Hustler
- A Colt Is My Passport as Shuji Kamimura
- Asia-Pol as George
- My Sweetheart as President Shishido
- Massacre Gun as Ryûichi Kuroda
- The Aftermath of War
- Burning Clouds
- Outlaw's Gold as 三鬼鉄
1966
- Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph as Kokichi Yamaguch
- Love and Desire in the Night Mist
- Blood Shed as Seiji
- Love Eternal
- Asiapol Secret Service as George Eaton
- The Dragon and the Tiger
- Your Life
1965
- The Dragon of Macao as Aizu
- Murder Unincorporated as Jiro (Joe of Spades)
- Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi as Tornado George / Jouji Tatsumaki
- Three Stray Dogs
- Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
- Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
1964
- Gate of Flesh as Shintaro Ibuki
- Tiger of the Sea
- Cruel Gun Story as Togawa
- Tale on Tokai Chivalry
- Jinsei Gekijo
- Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel as Joe of Aces
- Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
1963
- Youth of the Beast as Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno
- Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women as Hideo Tajima
- Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! as Hideo Tajima
- Tale on Kanto Chivalry as Masa from Kanto
- Hell Festival as Tetsu the Otter
- Chivalrous Outlaw
- Red Shoes and a Good-For-Nothing
- Notorious Bastard as Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)
1962
1961
- Pacific Porters
- Quick Draw Joe as Joe the Ace
- Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
- Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
- Crimson Pistol
- Gambler in the Sea
- Joe of Aces: Give and Take as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
- The Rambler under the Southern Cross
- Gun of Nosappu
- I'll End in Hell as Joji Dan
- The Crimson Plains as Joji Sakuma
1960
- Return of the Vagabond
- The Rambler Rides Again
- The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
- The Guitarist and the Rancher
- The Wild, Unruly Drifter
- The Cards Will Tell
- The Rambler in the Sunset
- Volcano Wind
- The Man with a Sinister Laugh as Ken
- The Drifter from the Sea
- The Gun Like Lightning as Goro
- Ryuji, the Gun Slinger as Gin of the Colt
- Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow as Jo of the Colt
1959
- The Human Cyclone as Masa
- Who is in the Background?
- Merciless Bullet as Yukie's lover
- Machi ga nemuru toki
- Gun Number Zero
- The Rambling Guitarist as George
- We Live Today
- Tokyo no Kodoku
- Mighty Rules
- Wounded Beast
- Crime Reporter as Fujimoto
- Zattō ni hikarume
1958
- Voice Without a Shadow as Hamazaki
- The Boy Who Came Back as Kajita
- Rusty Knife as Shimabara
- 死の壁の脱出 as Jiro Asaoka
- Breasts and Bullets
- Taiyō o buchi otose
- 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
- Muhō Ichidai
- Small Rats of the Edo Town as Hidematsu
1956
- Kingorô no omawari-san
- Frankie the Milkman as Zenkichi Matsubara
- Called to the Stand
- Cell No. 8
- This Is Home
- Seishun wo warera ni as Takai
- Confession
- The Happy Dancers
- Kanshō fujin
- Shiawase wa doko ni as Tetsuo Shimura
1955
- His Highness Surabaya as Applied Atomic Energy Research Institute Worker with a Tohoku Accent
- The Maid's Kid
- Policeman's Diary as Patrolman Yabuta
- Ofukuro
- Tsukiyo no kasa
- 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