Joe Shishido
Known for: Acting
Born: December 6, 1933
Died: January 18, 2020
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
Kimagure tosei
1962
Nuki uchi fūraibō
1962
A Colt Is My Passport
1967
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961
Branded to Kill
1967
The Frozen Plains
1962
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
1961
Cruel Gun Story
1964
The Killers
1991
Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
1964
Notorious Bastard
1963
Gate of Flesh
1964
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
1963
Massacre Gun
1967
Solo Traveler
1962
Last Round
1962
Youth of the Beast
1963
I'll End in Hell
1961
Quick Draw Joe
1961
Jūdan no arashi
1962
The Crimson Plains
1961
Crimson Pistol
1961
Traces of Lead
1962
Glass-Hearted Johnny
1962
Murder Unincorporated
1965
Danger Pays
1962
Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
1970
New Shameless School
1971
Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
1989
Tiger of the Sea
1964
Blood for Blood
1971
Monk's Paradise
1971
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
1970
Shameless School
1970
Again
1984
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
1961
Mexico Drifter
1962
Gun of Nosappu
1961
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
1963
Gambler in the Sea
1961
Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
1965
Akai ka to Rokudenashi
1963
Hell Festival
1963
Center of Tokyo
1974
Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
1965
Chivalrous Outlaw
1963
Thirteen Times a Loser
1969
Tale on Tokai Chivalry
1964
JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
1993
The Angry Rambler
1960
The Aftermath of War
1967
Profile of a Boss' Son
1970
Your Life
1966
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1974
Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
1971
The Return of the Filthy Seven
1967
Asiapol Secret Service
1966
Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
1977
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960
Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
1973
Retaliation
1968
The Rambling Guitarist
1959
Ore no sora
1977
Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
1957
A Man's World
1971
Gambling Code and Feuds
1977
The Man with a Sinister Laugh
1960
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1961
Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
1966
Danger Point: The Road to Hell
1991
Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
1960
Merciless Bullet
1959
Pacific Porters
1961
魔性の女
1968
Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
1965
Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
1964
Tale on Kanto Chivalry
1963
Three Stray Dogs
1965
Ex Convict: Sword Storm
1969
Zattō ni hikarume
1959
The Alaska Story
1977
100 Gamblers
1969
To Love
1997
Fugitive Alien
1987
Detective Office 5
2005
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
1987
Velvet Hustler
1967
Greatest Boss of Japan
1970
Ofukuro
1955
I'm All Yours
1985
Return of the Vagabond
1960
Conflagration
1975
Kingorô no omawari-san
1956
Tokyo no Kodoku
1959
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
1990
Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
1971
The Rambler in the Sunset
1960
Wind of Volcano
1960
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
1960
The Naked Woman and the Gun
1957
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
1972
The Gun Like Lightning
1960
Blood Shed
1966
Jinsei Gekijo
1964
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
1970
Wounded Beast
1959
Mighty Rules
1959
Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
1958
Breasts and Bullets
1958
Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless
2004
Shin Japan's Don 4
2005
Shin Japan's Don 5
2005
Shin Japan's Don 6
2005
Outlaw's Gold
1967
Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
1969
Stardust Wharf
1968
The Cleanup
1969
Run the Beast
1990
Rusty Knife
1958
Small Rats of the Edo Town
1957
Exiled to Hell
1969
The Final Judgement
2012
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
1966
The Sea of Genkai
1976
The Guitarist from the Sea
1960
Blue Jeans Memory
1981
8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
1992
Taiyō o buchi otose
1958
Shin Japan's Don: Waves
2004
Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki
Tough Cop - Ginza Police
1994
Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
1990
A Surgeon Named Hitman
2006
I Are You, You Am Me
1982
None But the Brave
1973
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
1969
Asia-Pol
1967
God's Pinch Hitter
1991
Frankie the Milkman
1956
Caribe: Symphony of Love
1985
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
1994
The Stairway to the Distant Past
1995
Who is in the Background?
1959
Chivalrous Pride
1969
The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
1991
Policeman's Diary
1955
Kanshō fujin
1956
The Maid's Kid
1955
The Boy Who Came Back
1958
You'll Fall For Me
1989
Confession
1956
Gun Number Zero
1959
Machi ga nemuru toki
1959
Fukushu no Teio
1995
Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
1970
Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
2001
Crime Reporter
1959
Tough Cop 2 - HEART CRASH
1995
A Night In Nude: Salvation
2010
Edo Porn
1981
Yabanjin no Nekutai
1969
The Doctor
1955
The Rambler Rides Again
1960
Voice Without a Shadow
1958
Called to the Stand
1956
Nozomi Witches
1990
Our Wedding
1983
Leave My Girl Alone
1986
Sukanpin Walk
1984
Flower & Snake II
2005
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
The Guitarist and the Rancher
1960
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
2011
The Cards Will Tell
1960
Alumni Association
2004
The Beauty in the Black Mask
1987
Love Eternal
1966
Tsukiyo no kasa
1955
The Happy Dancers
1956
The Dragon and the Tiger
1966
The Human Cyclone
1959
Kisaragi
2007
Take It Easy
1986
Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
1994
The Witty Samurai
1972
The Code
2009
Charming Men
1970
The Champion
1957
Proud Ambition 5
2006
Katayoku dake no tenshi
1986
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
1993
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
1977
Seishun wo warera ni
1956
We Live Today
1959
Proud Ambition 2
2006
Proud Ambition 3
2005
Proud Ambition 4
2006
The Trap
1996
Yakyuukyou no Uta
1985
The Rough One
1969
Temptation
1957
The Gambler
1992
Yakuza Jihad
2002
Proud Ambition
2006
Hometown
1999
Remembering the Cosmos Flower
1997
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
2000
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
2007
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1972
Muhō Ichidai
1957
This Heartbeat
1988
This Is Home
1956
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974
Nurse's Husband
1980
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
1991
Burning Clouds
1967
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1988
High Seas Hijack
1977
The Dragon of Macao
1965
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
1970
His Highness Surabaya
1955
Women's House
1954
My Pistol Is Quick
1954
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986
The Hard Core Criminal
1973
The First Catch
1980
The Black Current
1954
Switching – Goodbye Me
2007
The Setting Sun
1992
Fossilized Wilderness
1982
Bad Girl Mako
1971
My Sweetheart
1967
Drowning Fish
2001
Cell No. 8
1956
Biographies of Killers
1969
Turning Point
1994
Star Wolf
1978
Detective Office 5: Another Story
2005
Blitz!! Strada 5
1974
Kimi no na wa
1991
Pro Hunter
1981
Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
1978
Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji
1980
Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
1976
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
1995
Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen
1979
Big City: Days of Struggle
1976
Dazzling Cops
1977