Joe Shishido

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).

Known For

The Files of the Young Kindaichi

Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet

Pro Hunter

Kimi no na wa

Detective Office 5: Another Story

Detective Office 5: Another Story

Blitz!! Strada 5

Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka

All Movies (238)

• The Final Judgement2012 · as Lao Porto
• Mobile Detectives: The Movie 32011
• A Night In Nude: Salvation2010 · as Naoki Yamagami
• The Code2009 · as Detective 500
• Switching – Goodbye Me2007 · as Yoshinosuke Yoshida
• Kisaragi2007 · as Ooiso Long Beach Host
• Mobile Detectives: The Movie 22007
• Proud Ambition 52006
• Proud Ambition 42006
• Proud Ambition 22006
• Proud Ambition2006
• A Surgeon Named Hitman2006
• Detective Office 52005 · as 500
• Shin Japan's Don 62005
• Proud Ambition 32005
• Flower & Snake II2005
• Shin Japan's Don 52005
• Shin Japan's Don 42005
• Alumni Association2004
• Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless2004
• Shin Japan's Don: Waves2004
• Yakuza Jihad2002
• Drowning Fish2001 · as Ace no Jo
• Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street2001
• Debt King Part VII: Millennium2000
• Hometown1999
• To Love1997 · as Chinen
• Remembering the Cosmos Flower1997
• The Trap1996 · as Jo Shishido
• Fukushu no Teio1995 · as Kazunari Inaba
• The Stairway to the Distant Past1995 · as Jo Shishido
• Tough Cop 2 - HEART CRASH1995
• Turning Point1994 · as Hashizume
• The Most Terrible Time in My Life1994 · as Joe
• Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong1994
• Tough Cop - Ginza Police1994
• Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death1993
• JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet1993
• The Setting Sun1992
• The Gambler1992 · as Joe of Aces
• 8 Man - For All Lonely Nights1992 · as Dr. Tani
• Danger Point: The Road to Hell1991
• The Notorious Bored Samurai 61991
• God's Pinch Hitter1991
• Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet1991 · as Junichi Mizuta
• The Killers1991
• Run the Beast1990
• Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba1990
• Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet1990 · as Junichi Mizuta
• Nozomi Witches1990 · as Ryotaro's father
• You'll Fall For Me1989
• Red Crow and the Ghost Ship1989 · as Captain
• This Heartbeat1988
• Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis1988 · as Tokuji Hayakawa
• Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis1988 · as Noritsugu Hayakawa
• Star Force: Fugitive Alien II1987 · as Captain Joe
• Fugitive Alien1987 · as Captain Joe
• The Beauty in the Black Mask1987 · as Takeo Sato
• Leave My Girl Alone1986 · as Bar Owner
• Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast1986 · as School Principal
• Katayoku dake no tenshi1986
• Take It Easy1986
• I'm All Yours1985 · as Priest
• Caribe: Symphony of Love1985 · as Shunsuke Saichu
• Yakyuukyou no Uta1985
• Again1984
• Sukanpin Walk1984 · as Tatsuya Sekikawa
• Our Wedding1983
• I Are You, You Am Me1982 · as Kouzou Saitoh
• Fossilized Wilderness1982
• Edo Porn1981 · as Jyuppensha Ikku
• Blue Jeans Memory1981
• The First Catch1980
• Nurse's Husband1980
• Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron1978 · as Tominoichi
• Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye1977 · as Black Jack
• High Seas Hijack1977 · as Chief Engineer Kosai
• Gambling Code and Feuds1977 · as Katsuya Sekikawa
• Ore no sora1977 · as Genjiro Yasuda
• A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness1977 · as Cop
• The Alaska Story1977
• The Sea of Genkai1976 · as Sawaki
• Conflagration1975 · as Chief Engineer Kosai
• New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 11974 · as Hachiro Tachibana
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode1974 · as Katsutoshi Otomo
• Center of Tokyo1974 · as Hyodo
• The Hard Core Criminal1973
• None But the Brave1973
• Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari1973
• New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm1972
• New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line1972
• The Witty Samurai1972
• Bad Girl Mako1971 · as Yasuoka
• Monk's Paradise1971
• Blood for Blood1971 · as Naoto Tezuka
• Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu1971
• Go As Messy As Messy Can Be1971 · as Mujitori
• A Man's World1971
• New Shameless School1971 · as Gebageba
• Shameless School: Tackle Kiss1970 · as Macaroni
• New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri1970
• Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude1970 · as Macaroni
• Charming Men1970 · as Kobe Saburo
• Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa1970
• Shameless School1970 · as Macaroni
• A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life1970
• Greatest Boss of Japan1970
• Profile of a Boss' Son1970
• The Cleanup1969
• Biographies of Killers1969
• Thirteen Times a Loser1969 · as Seiji Okitsu
• Chivalrous Pride1969
• Ex Convict: Sword Storm1969
• The Rough One1969 · as Imano's Bodyguard
• 100 Gamblers1969
• Yabanjin no Nekutai1969
• Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood1969
• Exiled to Hell1969
• Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower1969
• 魔性の女1968
• Retaliation1968 · as Hino
• Stardust Wharf1968
• Outlaw's Gold1967 · as 三鬼鉄
• The Aftermath of War1967
• My Sweetheart1967 · as President Shishido
• The Return of the Filthy Seven1967
• Velvet Hustler1967
• Massacre Gun1967 · as Ryûichi Kuroda
• Asia-Pol1967 · as George
• Branded to Kill1967 · as Gorô Hanada
• Burning Clouds1967
• A Colt Is My Passport1967 · as Shuji Kamimura
• Asiapol Secret Service1966 · as George Eaton
• Your Life1966
• Love Eternal1966
• Love and Desire in the Night Mist1966
• Blood Shed1966 · as Seiji
• Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph1966 · as Kokichi Yamaguch
• The Dragon and the Tiger1966
• The Dragon of Macao1965 · as Aizu
• Three Stray Dogs1965
• Murder Unincorporated1965 · as Jiro (Joe of Spades)
• Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi1965 · as Tornado George / Jouji Tatsumaki
• Modern Yakuza: Chivalry1965
• Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure1965
• Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel1964 · as Joe of Aces
• Tiger of the Sea1964
• Gate of Flesh1964 · as Shintaro Ibuki
• Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ1964
• Jinsei Gekijo1964
• Cruel Gun Story1964 · as Togawa
• Tale on Tokai Chivalry1964
• Hell Festival1963 · as Tetsu the Otter
• Chivalrous Outlaw1963
• Tale on Kanto Chivalry1963 · as Masa from Kanto
• Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women1963 · as Hideo Tajima
• Akai ka to Rokudenashi1963
• Youth of the Beast1963 · as Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno
• Notorious Bastard1963 · as Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)
• Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!1963 · as Hideo Tajima
• Traces of Lead1962
• Danger Pays1962 · as Jôji Kondô
• Glass-Hearted Johnny1962 · as Jô
• Jūdan no arashi1962
• Last Round1962
• Solo Traveler1962
• The Frozen Plains1962
• Nuki uchi fūraibō1962
• Kimagure tosei1962
• Mexico Drifter1962
• Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains1961
• Crimson Pistol1961
• I'll End in Hell1961 · as Joji Dan
• Gun of Nosappu1961
• The Crimson Plains1961 · as Joji Sakuma
• Gambler in the Sea1961
• Joe of Aces: Give and Take1961 · as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
• Quick Draw Joe1961 · as Joe the Ace
• Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living1961 · as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
• Pacific Porters1961
• The Rambler under the Southern Cross1961
• Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow1960 · as Jo of the Colt
• The Angry Rambler1960
• The Rambler Rides Again1960
• The Rambler on a Pearl Farm1960
• The Man with a Sinister Laugh1960 · as Ken
• The Rambler in the Sunset1960
• Wind of Volcano1960
• The Gun Like Lightning1960 · as Goro
• Return of the Vagabond1960
• The Guitarist from the Sea1960
• Ryuji, the Gun Slinger1960 · as Gin of the Colt
• The Cards Will Tell1960
• The Guitarist and the Rancher1960
• Mighty Rules1959
• Who is in the Background?1959
• The Rambling Guitarist1959 · as George
• The Human Cyclone1959 · as Masa
• Crime Reporter1959 · as Fujimoto
• Merciless Bullet1959 · as Yukie's lover
• Tokyo no Kodoku1959
• Machi ga nemuru toki1959
• Gun Number Zero1959
• Wounded Beast1959
• We Live Today1959
• Zattō ni hikarume1959
• Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha1958
• Voice Without a Shadow1958 · as Hamazaki
• Taiyō o buchi otose1958
• The Boy Who Came Back1958 · as Kajita
• Rusty Knife1958 · as Shimabara
• Breasts and Bullets1958
• The Naked Woman and the Gun1957
• Small Rats of the Edo Town1957 · as Hidematsu
• Temptation1957 · as Goro Yasui
• The Champion1957 · as Boxer Ishiyama
• Muhō Ichidai1957
• Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 161957 · as Masaki Yoshihara
• Frankie the Milkman1956 · as Zenkichi Matsubara
• Kingorô no omawari-san1956
• Kanshō fujin1956
• Shiawase wa doko ni1956 · as Tetsuo Shimura
• The Happy Dancers1956
• This Is Home1956
• Seishun wo warera ni1956 · as Takai
• Confession1956
• Called to the Stand1956
• Cell No. 81956
• The Doctor1955
• Tsukiyo no kasa1955
• The Maid's Kid1955
• Ofukuro1955
• Policeman's Diary1955 · as Patrolman Yabuta
• His Highness Surabaya1955 · as Applied Atomic Energy Research Institute Worker with a Tohoku Accent
• My Pistol Is Quick1954 · as Airplane Passenger
• Women's House1954 · as Okada (employee of Inogawa's company)
• The Black Current1954 · as Newspaper Reporter
• Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki— · as Self (archive footage)

All TV Shows (13)

• Detective Office 5: Another Story2005 · as Chief 500
• Detective Office 5: Another Story2005
• The Files of the Young Kindaichi1995 · as Fujio Tashiro
• Kimi no na wa1991 · as 角倉勘次
• Pro Hunter1981 · as 菊島雄三
• Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji1980
• Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen1979
• Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka1978
• Star Wolf1978 · as Captain Joe
• Dazzling Cops1977
• Big City: Days of Struggle1976
• Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow1976 · as Gendō
• Blitz!! Strada 51974 · as Takamura Terujiro / Jupiter