Joe Shishido
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).
As actor 252
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
1995
Flower & Snake II
2005
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
1991
Big City: Days of Struggle
1976
Detective Office 5: Another Story
2005
Pro Hunter
1981
Kimi no na wa
1991
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
1990
Key Hunter
1968
Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
1976
Edo Porn
1981
Dazzling Cops
1977
Gate of Flesh
1964
Blitz!! Strada 5
1974
Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen
1979
Branded to Kill
1967
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978
I'm All Yours
1985
Youth of the Beast
1963
The Trap
1996
A Night in Nude: Salvation
2010
Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
1978
I Are You, You Am Me
1982
The Final Judgement
2012
The Setting Sun
1992
None But the Brave
1973
Tsukiyo no kasa
1955
Called to the Stand
1956
Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji
1980
Star Wolf
1978
The Dragon of Macao
1965
Tiger of the Sea
1964
The Rambler Rides Again
1960
Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
1990
The Black Current
1954
Kisaragi
2007
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1988
Quick Draw Joe
1961
Machi ga nemuru toki
1959
Heisei Kin'yudo: Muruhi no Onna
2000
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
1993
Conflagration
1975
A Colt Is My Passport
1967
Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
1989
The Return of the Filthy Seven
1967
Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
1971
Policeman's Diary
1955
His Highness Surabaya
1955
Frankie the Milkman
1956
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
1994
Confession
1956
The Guitarist and the Rancher
1960
死の壁の脱出
1958
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1974
The Rambler in the Sunset
1960
The Champion
1957
Velvet Hustler
1967
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974
Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki
2026
Biographies of Killers
1969
Asia-Pol
1967
Tough Cop 2 - HEART CRASH
1995
Blood Shed
1966
The Beauty in the Black Mask
1987
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
1977
Voice Without a Shadow
1958
The Sea of Genkai
1976
Drowning Fish
2001
Massacre Gun
1967
My Sweetheart
1967
Kingorô no omawari-san
1956
Fugitive Alien
1987
Bad Girl Mako
1971
Cruel Gun Story
1964
Switching – Goodbye Me
2007
Blue Jeans Memory
1981
魔性の女
1968
The Code
2009
The Killers
1991
To Love
1997
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
1970
Gun Number Zero
1959
Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
1970
This Is Home
1956
Turning Point
1994
Monk's Paradise
1971
Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
1969
The Stairway to the Distant Past
1995
Thirteen Times a Loser
1969
New Shameless School
1971
Danger Point: The Road to Hell
1991
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
1987
Retaliation
1968
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
1963
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986
Who is in the Background?
1959
The Aftermath of War
1967
Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
2001
Shameless School
1970
The Drifter from the Sea
1960
Murder Unincorporated
1965
Glass-Hearted Johnny
1962
Tokyo no Kodoku
1959
The Human Cyclone
1959
Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
1957
High Seas Hijack
1977
Leave My Girl Alone
1986
Our Wedding
1983
Jinsei Gekijo
1964
Proud Ambition 4
2006
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
1966
Asiapol Secret Service
1966
Gambling Code and Feuds
1977
Pacific Porters
1961
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960
Tale on Kanto Chivalry
1963
The First Catch
1980
Again
1984
Love Eternal
1966
Katayoku dake no tenshi
1986
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
2007
Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
1994
Muhō Ichidai
1957
Fossilized Wilderness
1982
Caribe: Symphony of Love
1985
Take It Easy
1986
The Boy Who Came Back
1958
Stardust Wharf
1968
Yakyuukyou no Uta
1985
A Surgeon Named Hitman
2006
Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
1966
The Witty Samurai
1972
Mighty Rules
1959
The Gun Like Lightning
1960
Rusty Knife
1958
Solo Traveler
1962
Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
1977
Blood for Blood
1971
Danger Pays
1962
Ex Convict: Sword Storm
1969
Nurse's Husband
1980
Crimson Pistol
1961
The Rough One
1969
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
1961
The Rambling Guitarist
1959
Yakuza Jihad
2002
Kanshō fujin
1956
Last Round
1962
The Maid's Kid
1955
Charming Men
1970
Detective Office 5
2005
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
2000
Tough Cop - Ginza Police
1994
The Frozen Plains
1962
Greatest Boss of Japan
1970
Three Stray Dogs
1965
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
1970
The Naked Woman and the Gun
1957
You'll Fall For Me
1989
The Man with a Sinister Laugh
1960
The Cards Will Tell
1960
Traces of Lead
1962
The Alaska Story
1977
Women's House
1954
Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
1973
This Heartbeat
1988
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
1963
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
1972
Proud Ambition 3
2005
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1961
Return of the Vagabond
1960
100 Gamblers
1969
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
Notorious Bastard
1963
Nozomi Witches
1990
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
1960
Chivalrous Outlaw
1963
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961
Seishun wo warera ni
1956
The Hard Core Criminal
1973
Nuki uchi fūraibō
1962
The Doctor
1955
Merciless Bullet
1959
Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
1965
A Man's World
1971
Profile of a Boss' Son
1970
Ore no sora
1977
Fukushu no Teio
1995
Kimagure tosei
1962
Exiled to Hell
1969
Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
1964
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
1970
Your Life
1966
Class Reunion
2004
Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless
2004
Yabanjin no Nekutai
1969
Jūdan no arashi
1962
Zattō ni hikarume
1959
Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
1971
Center of Tokyo
1974
Sukanpin Walk
1984
Gambler in the Sea
1961
The Dragon and the Tiger
1966
Crime Reporter
1959
Mexico Drifter
1962
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
2011
Proud Ambition 5
2006
8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
1992
Remembering the Cosmos Flower
1997
Wounded Beast
1959
The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
1991
Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
1965
Hometown
1999
Run the Beast
1990
The Crimson Plains
1961
The Cleanup
1969
Volcano Wind
1960
Red Shoes and a Good-For-Nothing
1963
Breasts and Bullets
1958
Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
1970
Cell No. 8
1956
Shin Japan's Don 5
2005
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
1961
The Wild, Unruly Drifter
1960
God's Pinch Hitter
1991
Chivalrous Pride
1969
I'll End in Hell
1961
Gun of Nosappu
1961
Shin Japan's Don: Waves
2004
My Pistol Is Quick
1954
Ofukuro
1955
Temptation
1957
Small Rats of the Edo Town
1957
The Happy Dancers
1956
Hell Festival
1963
Proud Ambition 2
2006
Outlaw's Gold
1967
Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
1958
The Gambler
1992
Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
1965
Burning Clouds
1967
Tale on Tokai Chivalry
1964
Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
1964
Shin Japan's Don 4
2005
JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
1993
We Live Today
1959
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1972
Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
1960
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
1969
Shin Japan's Don 6
2005
Proud Ambition
2006
Taiyō o buchi otose
1958