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
- 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
- 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
- Edo Porn as Jyuppensha Ikku
- Pro Hunter as 菊島雄三
- Blue Jeans Memory
1978
- Star Wolf as Captain Joe
- Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
- Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron as Tominoichi
1977
- Dazzling Cops
- High Seas Hijack as Chief Engineer Kosai
- Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye as Black Jack
- A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness as Cop
- Ore no sora as Genjiro Yasuda
- Gambling Code and Feuds as Katsuya Sekikawa
- The Alaska Story
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
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Hachiro Tachibana
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as Katsutoshi Otomo
- Center of Tokyo as Hyodo
1972
1971
- Go As Messy As Messy Can Be as Mujitori
- Bad Girl Mako as Yasuoka
- New Shameless School as Gebageba
- Blood for Blood as Naoto Tezuka
- A Man's World
- Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
- Monk's Paradise
1970
- Shameless School as Macaroni
- Profile of a Boss' Son
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
- Shameless School: Tackle Kiss as Macaroni
- Charming Men as Kobe Saburo
- A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
- Greatest Boss of Japan
- Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude as Macaroni
- Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
1969
1968
- Retaliation as Hino
- Stardust Wharf
- 魔性の女
1967
- Branded to Kill as Gorô Hanada
- The Return of the Filthy Seven
- My Sweetheart as President Shishido
- A Colt Is My Passport as Shuji Kamimura
- Asia-Pol as George
- Velvet Hustler
- Massacre Gun as Ryûichi Kuroda
- Burning Clouds
- The Aftermath of War
- Outlaw's Gold as 三鬼鉄
1966
- Blood Shed as Seiji
- Love and Desire in the Night Mist
- Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph as Kokichi Yamaguch
- Your Life
- Love Eternal
- Asiapol Secret Service as George Eaton
- The Dragon and the Tiger
1965
- The Dragon of Macao as Aizu
- Murder Unincorporated as Jiro (Joe of Spades)
- Three Stray Dogs
- Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi as Tornado George / Jouji Tatsumaki
- Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
- Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
1964
- Gate of Flesh as Shintaro Ibuki
- Tiger of the Sea
- Jinsei Gekijo
- Cruel Gun Story as Togawa
- Tale on Tokai Chivalry
- Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
- Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel as Joe of Aces
1963
- Youth of the Beast as Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno
- Chivalrous Outlaw
- Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! as Hideo Tajima
- Tale on Kanto Chivalry as Masa from Kanto
- Notorious Bastard as Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)
- Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women as Hideo Tajima
- Hell Festival as Tetsu the Otter
- Red Shoes and a Good-For-Nothing
1962
1961
- Quick Draw Joe as Joe the Ace
- Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
- 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
- Pacific Porters
- I'll End in Hell as Joji Dan
- The Crimson Plains as Joji Sakuma
- Crimson Pistol
- Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
1960
- The Rambler Rides Again
- The Guitarist and the Rancher
- The Rambler in the Sunset
- Return of the Vagabond
- The Guitarist from the Sea
- Ryuji, the Gun Slinger as Gin of the Colt
- The Cards Will Tell
- The Angry Rambler
- Wind of Volcano
- The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
- The Man with a Sinister Laugh as Ken
- The Gun Like Lightning as Goro
- Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow as Jo of the Colt
1959
- Machi ga nemuru toki
- The Rambling Guitarist as George
- Wounded Beast
- Crime Reporter as Fujimoto
- The Human Cyclone as Masa
- Merciless Bullet as Yukie's lover
- We Live Today
- Mighty Rules
- Who is in the Background?
- Zattō ni hikarume
- Gun Number Zero
- Tokyo no Kodoku
1958
- 死の壁の脱出 as Jiro Asaoka
- Voice Without a Shadow as Hamazaki
- The Boy Who Came Back as Kajita
- Rusty Knife as Shimabara
- Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
- Taiyō o buchi otose
- Breasts and Bullets
1957
- Temptation as Goro Yasui
- Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16 as Masaki Yoshihara
- Muhō Ichidai
- The Champion as Boxer Ishiyama
- The Naked Woman and the Gun
- Small Rats of the Edo Town as Hidematsu
1956
- Frankie the Milkman as Zenkichi Matsubara
- Confession
- Kingorô no omawari-san
- Shiawase wa doko ni as Tetsuo Shimura
- This Is Home
- Seishun wo warera ni as Takai
- Called to the Stand
- Kanshō fujin
- Cell No. 8
- The Happy Dancers
1955
- Tsukiyo no kasa
- The Maid's Kid
- His Highness Surabaya as Applied Atomic Energy Research Institute Worker with a Tohoku Accent
- Policeman's Diary as Patrolman Yabuta
- Ofukuro
- The Doctor
1954
- The Black Current as Newspaper Reporter
- My Pistol Is Quick as Airplane Passenger
- Women's House as Okada (employee of Inogawa's company)