Joe Shishido

Known for Acting

Joe Shishido's portrait

Details

Birthday: December 06, 1933

Deathday: January 18, 2020

Place of birth: Kita, Osaka, Japan

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).

Actor

2012

The Final Judgement

2011

Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3

2010

A Night In Nude: Salvation

2009

The Code

2007

Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2

2007

Kisaragi

2007

Switching – Goodbye Me

2006

A Surgeon Named Hitman

2006

Proud Ambition 2

2006

Proud Ambition

2006

Proud Ambition 4

2006

Proud Ambition 5

2005

Detective Office 5

2005

Flower & Snake II

2005

Proud Ambition 3

2005

Shin Japan's Don 4

2005

Shin Japan's Don 5

2005

Shin Japan's Don 6

2004

Alumni Association

2004

Shin Japan's Don: Waves

2004

Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless

2002

Yakuza Jihad

2001

Drowning Fish

2001

Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street

2000

Debt King Part VII: Millennium

1999

Hometown

1997

To Love

1997

Remembering the Cosmos Flower

1996

The Trap

1995

The Stairway to the Distant Past

1995

Fukushu no Teio

1994

The Most Terrible Time in My Life

1994

Turning Point

1994

Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong

1993

JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet

1993

Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death

1992

The Setting Sun

1992

8 Man - For All Lonely Nights

1992

The Gambler

1991

The Killers

1991

God's Pinch Hitter

1991

The Notorious Bored Samurai 6

1991

Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet

1991

Danger Point: The Road to Hell

1990

Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba

1990

Run the Beast

1990

Nozomi Witches

1990

Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet

1989

Red Crow and the Ghost Ship

1989

You'll Fall For Me

1988

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

1988

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

1988

This Heartbeat

1987

Fugitive Alien

1987

Star Force: Fugitive Alien II

1986

Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

1986

Leave My Girl Alone

1986

Take It Easy

1986

Katayoku dake no tenshi

1985

I'm All Yours

1985

Caribe: Symphony of Love

1985

Yakyuukyou no Uta

1984

Sukanpin Walk

1984

Again

1983

Our Wedding

1982

I Are You, You Am Me

1982

Fossilized Wilderness

1981

Edo Porn

1981

Blue Jeans Memory

1980

Nurse's Husband

1980

The First Catch

1978

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

1977

The Alaska Story

1977

A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness

1977

Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye

1977

High Seas Hijack

1977

Ore no sora

1977

Gambling Code and Feuds

1976

The Sea of Genkai

1975

Conflagration

1974

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

1974

Center of Tokyo

1973

None But the Brave

1973

Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari

1973

The Hard Core Criminal

1972

New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line

1972

New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm

1972

The Witty Samurai

1971

Bad Girl Mako

1971

Go As Messy As Messy Can Be

1971

New Shameless School

1971

Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu

1971

A Man's World

1971

Blood for Blood

1971

Monk's Paradise

1970

Greatest Boss of Japan

1970

Profile of a Boss' Son

1970

Charming Men

1970

Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude

1970

Shameless School

1970

Shameless School: Tackle Kiss

1970

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri

1970

A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life

1970

Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa

1969

The Cleanup

1969

100 Gamblers

1969

Exiled to Hell

1969

Yabanjin no Nekutai

1969

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

1969

Chivalrous Pride

1969

The Rough One

1969

Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood

1969

Biographies of Killers

1969

Ex Convict: Sword Storm

1968

Retaliation

1968

魔性の女

1968

Stardust Wharf

1967

A Colt Is My Passport

1967

Branded to Kill

1967

Velvet Hustler

1967

Massacre Gun

1967

The Aftermath of War

1967

Asia-Pol

1967

The Return of the Filthy Seven

1967

My Sweetheart

1967

Burning Clouds

1967

Outlaw's Gold

1966

Love Eternal

1966

Your Life

1966

Asiapol Secret Service

1966

Love and Desire in the Night Mist

1966

The Dragon and the Tiger

1966

Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph

1966

Blood Shed

1965

Murder Unincorporated

1965

The Dragon of Macao

1965

Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi

1965

Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure

1965

Modern Yakuza: Chivalry

1965

Three Stray Dogs

1964

Tale on Tokai Chivalry

1964

Cruel Gun Story

1964

Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel

1964

Gate of Flesh

1964

Tiger of the Sea

1964

Jinsei Gekijo

1964

Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ

1963

Notorious Bastard

1963

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!

1963

Youth of the Beast

1963

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women

1963

Akai ka to Rokudenashi

1963

Hell Festival

1963

Tale on Kanto Chivalry

1963

Chivalrous Outlaw

1962

Kimagure tosei

1962

Nuki uchi fūraibō

1962

The Frozen Plains

1962

Solo Traveler

1962

Last Round

1962

Jūdan no arashi

1962

Traces of Lead

1962

Glass-Hearted Johnny

1962

Danger Pays

1962

Mexico Drifter

1961

Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains

1961

Joe of Aces: Give and Take

1961

I'll End in Hell

1961

Quick Draw Joe

1961

The Crimson Plains

1961

Crimson Pistol

1961

The Rambler under the Southern Cross

1961

Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living

1961

Gun of Nosappu

1961

Gambler in the Sea

1961

Pacific Porters

1960

The Angry Rambler

1960

Return of the Vagabond

1960

The Rambler Rides Again

1960

The Rambler on a Pearl Farm

1960

The Rambler in the Sunset

1960

Wind of Volcano

1960

The Guitarist from the Sea

1960

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

1960

The Man with a Sinister Laugh

1960

The Gun Like Lightning

1960

The Guitarist and the Rancher

1960

Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow

1960

The Cards Will Tell

1959

Zattō ni hikarume

1959

Who is in the Background?

1959

The Rambling Guitarist

1959

Tokyo no Kodoku

1959

The Human Cyclone

1959

Wounded Beast

1959

Gun Number Zero

1959

Mighty Rules

1959

Machi ga nemuru toki

1959

Merciless Bullet

1959

We Live Today

1958

Rusty Knife

1958

Voice Without a Shadow

1958

The Boy Who Came Back

1958

Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha

1958

Taiyō o buchi otose

1958

Breasts and Bullets

1957

Small Rats of the Edo Town

1957

Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16

1957

The Naked Woman and the Gun

1957

The Champion

1957

Temptation

1957

Muhō Ichidai

1956

Cell No. 8

1956

Frankie the Milkman

1956

The Happy Dancers

1956

Kingorô no omawari-san

1956

Called to the Stand

1956

Kanshō fujin

1956

Shiawase wa doko ni

1956

Confession

1956

Seishun wo warera ni

1955

Ofukuro

1955

The Doctor

1955

Tsukiyo no kasa

1955

Policeman's Diary

1955

The Maid's Kid

1955

His Highness Surabaya

1954

My Pistol Is Quick

1954

Women's House

1954

The Black Current