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).
Filmography
Star Wolf
1978 · 10.0
The Black Current
1954 · 10.0
The Rambler Rides Again
1960 · 10.0
The Rough One
1969 · 10.0
High Seas Hijack
1977 · 10.0
The Cleanup
1969 · 10.0
Pacific Porters
1961 · 10.0
Gun of Nosappu
1961 · 10.0
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1972 · 10.0
Seishun wo warera ni
1956 · 10.0
The Doctor
1955 · 10.0
Profile of a Boss' Son
1970 · 10.0
Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
1976 · 9.0
The Return of the Filthy Seven
1967 · 9.0
Women of Ginza
1955 · 9.0
Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
1969 · 9.0
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956 · 9.0
I'll End in Hell
1961 · 9.0
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
1970 · 9.0
Charming Men
1970 · 9.0
Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
1960 · 9.0
New Shameless School
1971 · 9.0
Frankie the Milkman
1956 · 8.5
Our Wedding
1983 · 8.5
The Maid's Kid
1955 · 8.3
Kimi no na wa
1991 · 8.0
Stardust Wharf
1968 · 8.0
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
1970 · 8.0
Temptation
1957 · 8.0
The Dragon of Macao
1965 · 8.0
Fossilized Wilderness
1982 · 8.0
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
1960 · 8.0
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
1970 · 8.0
The Alaska Story
1977 · 8.0
Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
1970 · 8.0
Called to the Stand
1956 · 8.0
A Man's World
1971 · 8.0
Yakuza Jihad
2002 · 8.0
Danger Point: The Road to Hell
1991 · 8.0
Mexico Drifter
1962 · 8.0
The Man with a Sinister Laugh
1960 · 8.0
Drowning Fish
2001 · 7.7
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
1995 · 7.6
The Boy Who Came Back
1958 · 7.6
Leave My Girl Alone
1986 · 7.5
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
1994 · 7.5
Sukanpin Walk
1984 · 7.5
The Hard Core Criminal
1973 · 7.5
Branded to Kill
1967 · 7.2
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1974 · 7.2
The Stairway to the Distant Past
1995 · 7.2
Massacre Gun
1967 · 7.2
Asia-Pol
1967 · 7.2
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
1972 · 7.1
A Colt is My Passport
1967 · 7.1
Key Hunter
1968 · 7.0
Conflagration
1975 · 7.0
Ofukuro
1955 · 7.0
Monk's Paradise
1971 · 7.0
Blood Shed
1966 · 7.0
Turning Point
1994 · 7.0
Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
1989 · 7.0
Blood for Blood
1971 · 7.0
Danger Pays
1962 · 7.0
Gambling Code and Feuds
1977 · 7.0
Policeman's Diary
1955 · 7.0
Nurse's Husband
1980 · 7.0
魔性の女
1968 · 7.0
100 Gamblers
1969 · 7.0
The Naked Woman and the Gun
1957 · 7.0
Jinsei Gekijo
1964 · 7.0
You'll Fall For Me
1989 · 7.0
The Dragon and the Tiger
1966 · 7.0
Caribe: Symphony of Love
1985 · 7.0
Youth of the Beast
1963 · 7.0
Kisaragi
2007 · 6.9
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986 · 6.9
The Rambling Guitarist
1959 · 6.9
Cruel Gun Story
1964 · 6.8
Velvet Hustler
1967 · 6.8
The Trap
1996 · 6.8
The Champion
1957 · 6.7
To Love
1997 · 6.7
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
1963 · 6.7
Gate of Flesh
1964 · 6.6
Switching – Goodbye Me
2007 · 6.6
Flower & Snake II
2005 · 6.5
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
1990 · 6.5
Murder Unincorporated
1965 · 6.5
I Are You, You Am Me
1982 · 6.4
None But the Brave
1973 · 6.3
Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
1966 · 6.3
Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
1977 · 6.2
The Code
2009 · 6.2
Voice Without a Shadow
1958 · 6.2
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978 · 6.1
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1988 · 6.1
Bad Girl Mako
1971 · 6.0
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
1991 · 6.0
Nozomi Witches
1990 · 6.0
Asiapol Secret Service
1966 · 6.0
Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
1964 · 6.0
Fukushu no Teio
1995 · 6.0
Women's House
1954 · 6.0
Edo Porn
1981 · 5.9
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974 · 5.9
Retaliation
1968 · 5.9
Rusty Knife
1958 · 5.9
The Sea of Genkai
1976 · 5.8
A Night in Nude: Salvation
2010 · 5.6
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
1977 · 5.6
The Final Judgement
2012 · 5.5
Return of the Vagabond
1960 · 5.0
Shameless School
1970 · 5.0
Remembering the Cosmos Flower
1997 · 5.0
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
2011 · 5.0
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
2007 · 5.0
The Setting Sun
1992 · 4.8
I'm All Yours
1985 · 4.7
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
1987 · 4.7
8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
1992 · 4.1
Fugitive Alien
1987 · 3.9
The First Catch
1980 · 3.5
The Drifter from the Sea
1960 · 3.5
Pro Hunter
1981 · 0.0
Detective Office 5: Another Story
2005 · 0.0
Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
1978 · 0.0
Big City: Days of Struggle
1976 · 0.0
Blitz!! Strada 5
1974 · 0.0
Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen
1979 · 0.0
Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji
1980 · 0.0
Dazzling Cops
1977 · 0.0
Thirteen Times a Loser
1969 · 0.0
Biographies of Killers
1969 · 0.0
Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
1957 · 0.0
His Highness Surabaya
1955 · 0.0
死の壁の脱出
1958 · 0.0
Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
2001 · 0.0
Ex Convict: Sword Storm
1969 · 0.0
Cell No. 8
1956 · 0.0
Quick Draw Joe
1961 · 0.0
Katayoku dake no tenshi
1986 · 0.0
Tsukiyo no kasa
1955 · 0.0
Traces of Lead
1962 · 0.0
Machi ga nemuru toki
1959 · 0.0
Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
1990 · 0.0
Greatest Boss of Japan
1970 · 0.0
Heisei Kin'yudo: Muruhi no Onna
2000 · 0.0
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
1969 · 0.0
Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
1971 · 0.0
Chivalrous Outlaw
1963 · 0.0
Tiger of the Sea
1964 · 0.0
The Beauty in the Black Mask
1987 · 0.0
This Is Home
1956 · 0.0
Kingorô no omawari-san
1956 · 0.0
Blue Jeans Memory
1981 · 0.0
Gambler in the Sea
1961 · 0.0
Confession
1956 · 0.0
Detective Office 5
2005 · 0.0
Love Eternal
1966 · 0.0
Yabanjin no Nekutai
1969 · 0.0
Tale on Kanto Chivalry
1963 · 0.0
The Guitarist and the Rancher
1960 · 0.0
Tough Cop - Ginza Police
1994 · 0.0
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
1993 · 0.0
The Rambler in the Sunset
1960 · 0.0
The Wild, Unruly Drifter
1960 · 0.0
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
1963 · 0.0
Tale on Tokai Chivalry
1964 · 0.0
My Sweetheart
1967 · 0.0
Ore no sora
1977 · 0.0
Merciless Bullet
1959 · 0.0
Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
1965 · 0.0
The Gun Like Lightning
1960 · 0.0
Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
1973 · 0.0
Crimson Pistol
1961 · 0.0
Chivalrous Pride
1969 · 0.0
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
2000 · 0.0
The Cards Will Tell
1960 · 0.0
My Pistol Is Quick
1954 · 0.0
The Killers
1991 · 0.0
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1961 · 0.0
Your Life
1966 · 0.0
The Happy Dancers
1956 · 0.0
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961 · 0.0
Gun Number Zero
1959 · 0.0
Take It Easy
1986 · 0.0
Yakyuukyou no Uta
1985 · 0.0
We Live Today
1959 · 0.0
The Witty Samurai
1972 · 0.0
Exiled to Hell
1969 · 0.0
The Frozen Plains
1962 · 0.0
This Heartbeat
1988 · 0.0
The Crimson Plains
1961 · 0.0
JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
1993 · 0.0
Last Round
1962 · 0.0
The Aftermath of War
1967 · 0.0
Outlaw's Gold
1967 · 0.0
Muhō Ichidai
1957 · 0.0
Nuki uchi fūraibō
1962 · 0.0
Small Rats of the Edo Town
1957 · 0.0
Kanshō fujin
1956 · 0.0
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
1966 · 0.0
Hometown
1999 · 0.0
Jūdan no arashi
1962 · 0.0
Again
1984 · 0.0
Notorious Bastard
1963 · 0.0
Glass-Hearted Johnny
1962 · 0.0
Taiyō o buchi otose
1958 · 0.0
Tokyo no Kodoku
1959 · 0.0
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
1961 · 0.0
Mighty Rules
1959 · 0.0
The Human Cyclone
1959 · 0.0
Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
1970 · 0.0
Tough Cop 2 - HEART CRASH
1995 · 0.0
Three Stray Dogs
1965 · 0.0
Kimagure tosei
1962 · 0.0
Volcano Wind
1960 · 0.0
Proud Ambition
2006 · 0.0
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
1961 · 0.0
Breasts and Bullets
1958 · 0.0
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960 · 0.0
Wounded Beast
1959 · 0.0
Solo Traveler
1962 · 0.0
Proud Ambition 4
2006 · 0.0
Hell Festival
1963 · 0.0
Proud Ambition 2
2006 · 0.0
Center of Tokyo
1974 · 0.0
Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
1971 · 0.0
Burning Clouds
1967 · 0.0
Shin Japan's Don 6
2005 · 0.0
Shin Japan's Don 5
2005 · 0.0
Class Reunion
2004 · 0.0
Zattō ni hikarume
1959 · 0.0
Red Shoes and a Good-For-Nothing
1963 · 0.0
Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
1964 · 0.0
Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
1958 · 0.0
Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
1965 · 0.0
Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless
2004 · 0.0
Run the Beast
1990 · 0.0
The Gambler
1992 · 0.0
The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
1991 · 0.0
Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
1965 · 0.0
Who is in the Background?
1959 · 0.0
Shin Japan's Don 4
2005 · 0.0
God's Pinch Hitter
1991 · 0.0
Crime Reporter
1959 · 0.0
Shin Japan's Don: Waves
2004 · 0.0
A Surgeon Named Hitman
2006 · 0.0
Proud Ambition 3
2005 · 0.0
Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
1994 · 0.0
Proud Ambition 5
2006 · 0.0