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Joe Shishido

Born Dec. 6, 1933
Kita, Osaka, Japan
Died Jan. 18, 2020, aged 86

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 …

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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).

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Branded to Kill (1967)

Gorô Hanada

Youth of the Beast (1963)

Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno

Gate of Flesh (1964)

Shintaro Ibuki

A Colt is My Passport (1967)

Shuji Kamimura

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974)

Katsutoshi Otomo

Edo Porn (1981)

Jyuppensha Ikku

Flower & Snake II (2005)

Takayoshi Tooyama

Kisaragi (2007)

Ooiso Long Beach Host

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! (1963)

Hideo Tajima

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988)

Tokuji Hayakawa / Noritsugu Hayakawa

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (1978)

Tominoichi

Cruel Gun Story (1964)

Togawa

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 (1974)

Hachiro Tachibana

Retaliation (1968)

Hino

Rusty Knife (1958)

Shimabara

A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (1977)

Cop

Fugitive Alien (1987)

Captain Joe

I Are You, You Am Me (1982)

Kouzou Saitoh

A Night in Nude: Salvation (2010)

Naoki Yamagami

Massacre Gun (1967)

Ryûichi Kuroda

New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line (1972)

The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994)

Joe

Switching – Goodbye Me (2007)

Yoshinosuke Yoshida

The Trap (1996)

Jo Shishido

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The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995)

Jo Shishido

Voice Without a Shadow (1958)

Hamazaki

8 Man - For All Lonely Nights (1992)

Dr. Tani

Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet (1990)

Junichi Mizuta

The Boy Who Came Back (1958)

Kajita

Velvet Hustler (1967)

Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (1986)

School Principal

Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph (1966)

Kokichi Yamaguch

None But the Brave (1973)

The Files of the Young Kindaichi (1995)

Fujio Tashiro

The Rambling Guitarist (1959)

George

Asia-Pol (1967)

George

Bad Girl Mako (1971)

Yasuoka

Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye (1977)

Black Jack

Danger Pays (1962)

Jôji Kondô

Star Force: Fugitive Alien II (1987)

Captain Joe

The Champion (1957)

Boxer Ishiyama

The Code (2009)

Detective 500

The Drifter from the Sea (1960)

The Setting Sun (1992)

Conflagration (1975)

Chief Engineer Kosai

Danger Point: The Road to Hell (1991)

Policeman's Diary (1955)

Patrolman Yabuta

The Sea of Genkai (1976)

Sawaki

Remembering the Cosmos Flower (1997)

Temptation (1957)

Goro Yasui

The First Catch (1980)

Drowning Fish (2001)

Ace no Jo

I'm All Yours (1985)

Priest

Kimi no na wa (1991)

角倉勘次

Red Crow and the Ghost Ship (1989)

Captain

Return of the Vagabond (1960)

The Dragon of Macao (1965)

Aizu

The Maid's Kid (1955)

To Love (1997)

Chinen

Frankie the Milkman (1956)

Zenkichi Matsubara

High Seas Hijack (1977)

Chief Engineer Kosai

Leave My Girl Alone (1986)

Bar Owner

Murder Unincorporated (1965)

Jiro (Joe of Spades)

Nozomi Witches (1990)

Ryotaro's father

Our Wedding (1983)

Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel (1964)

Joe of Aces

Shameless School (1970)

Macaroni

Sukanpin Walk (1984)

Tatsuya Sekikawa

The Alaska Story (1977)

George Oshima

The Final Judgement (2012)

Lao Porto

The Hard Core Criminal (1973)

Turning Point (1994)

Hashizume

You'll Fall For Me (1989)

100 Gamblers (1969)

A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life (1970)

A Man's World (1971)

Asiapol Secret Service (1966)

George Eaton

Blood for Blood (1971)

Naoto Tezuka

Blood Shed (1966)

Seiji

Called to the Stand (1956)

Hotta

Caribe: Symphony of Love (1985)

Shunsuke Saichu

Charming Men (1970)

Kobe Saburo

Fossilized Wilderness (1982)

Fukushu no Teio (1995)

Kazunari Inaba

Gambling Code and Feuds (1977)

Katsuya Sekikawa

Gun of Nosappu (1961)

I'll End in Hell (1961)

Joji Dan

Jinsei Gekijo (1964)

Key Hunter (1968)

Mexico Drifter (1962)

Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2 (2007)

Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3 (2011)

Monk's Paradise (1971)

Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet (1991)

Junichi Mizuta

New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm (1972)

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri (1970)

New Shameless School (1971)

Gebageba

Nurse's Husband (1980)

Ofukuro (1955)

Pacific Porters (1961)

Quick Draw Joe (1961)

Joe the Ace

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger (1960)

Gin of the Colt

San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku (1996)

Seishun wo warera ni (1956)

Takai

Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude (1970)

Macaroni

Shameless School: Tackle Kiss (1970)

Macaroni

Shiawase wa doko ni (1956)

Tetsuo Shimura

Star Wolf (1978)

Captain Joe

Stardust Wharf (1968)

Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow (1960)

Jo of the Colt

The Black Current (1954)

Newspaper Reporter

The Cleanup (1969)

The Doctor (1955)

The Dragon and the Tiger (1966)

The Man with a Sinister Laugh (1960)

Ken

The Naked Woman and the Gun (1957)

The Rambler Rides Again (1960)

The Return of the Filthy Seven (1967)

The Rough One (1969)

Imano's Bodyguard

Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow (1976)

Gendō

Women of Ginza (1955)

Women's House (1954)

Okada (employee of Inogawa's company)

Yakuza Jihad (2002)

Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood (1969)

魔性の女 (1968)

A Surgeon Named Hitman (2006)

Again (1984)

Big City: Days of Struggle (1976)

Biographies of Killers (1969)

Blitz!! Strada 5 (1974)

Takamura Terujiro / Jupiter

Blue Jeans Memory (1981)

Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death (1993)

Breasts and Bullets (1958)

Burning Clouds (1967)

Cell No. 8 (1956)

Center of Tokyo (1974)

Hyodo

Chivalrous Outlaw (1963)

Chivalrous Pride (1969)

Class Reunion (2004)

Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba (1990)

Confession (1956)

Crime Reporter (1959)

Fujimoto

Crimson Pistol (1961)

Dazzling Cops (1977)

Debt King Part VII: Millennium (2000)

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women (1963)

Hideo Tajima

Detective Office 5 (2005)

500

Detective Office 5: Another Story (2005)

Chief 500

Ex Convict: Sword Storm (1969)

Exiled to Hell (1969)

Gambler in the Sea (1961)

Glass-Hearted Johnny (1962)

Jô

Go As Messy As Messy Can Be (1971)

Mujitori

God's Pinch Hitter (1991)

Greatest Boss of Japan (1970)

Gun Number Zero (1959)

Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji (1980)

Heisei Kin'yudo: Muruhi no Onna (2000)

Hell Festival (1963)

Tetsu the Otter

His Highness Surabaya (1955)

Applied Atomic Energy Research Institute Worker with a Tohoku Accent

Hometown (1999)

Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi (1965)

Tornado George / Jouji Tatsumaki

JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet (1993)

Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living (1961)

Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)

Joe of Aces: Give and Take (1961)

Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)

Jūdan no arashi (1962)

Kanshō fujin (1956)

Katayoku dake no tenshi (1986)

Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16 (1957)

Masaki Yoshihara

Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure (1965)

Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari (1973)

Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa (1970)

Kimagure tosei (1962)

Kingorô no omawari-san (1956)

Last Round (1962)

Love and Desire in the Night Mist (1966)

Love Eternal (1966)

Machi ga nemuru toki (1959)

Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong (1994)

Merciless Bullet (1959)

Yukie's lover

Mighty Rules (1959)

Modern Yakuza: Chivalry (1965)

Muhō Ichidai (1957)

My Pistol Is Quick (1954)

Airplane Passenger

My Sweetheart (1967)

President Shishido

Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen (1979)

Notorious Bastard (1963)

Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)

Nuki uchi fūraibō (1962)

Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ (1964)

Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu (1971)

Ore no sora (1977)

Genjiro Yasuda

Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha (1958)

Outlaw's Gold (1967)

三鬼鉄

Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka (1978)

Pro Hunter (1981)

菊島雄三

Proud Ambition (2006)

Proud Ambition 2 (2006)

Proud Ambition 3 (2005)

Proud Ambition 4 (2006)

Proud Ambition 5 (2006)

Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains (1961)

Red Shoes and a Good-For-Nothing (1963)

Run the Beast (1990)

Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street (2001)

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)

Shin Japan's Don: Waves (2004)

Small Rats of the Edo Town (1957)

Hidematsu

Solo Traveler (1962)

Taiyō o buchi otose (1958)

Take It Easy (1986)

Tale on Kanto Chivalry (1963)

Masa from Kanto

Tale on Tokai Chivalry (1964)

The Aftermath of War (1967)

The Beauty in the Black Mask (1987)

Takeo Sato

The Cards Will Tell (1960)

The Crimson Plains (1961)

Joji Sakuma

The Frozen Plains (1962)

The Gambler (1992)

Joe of Aces

The Guitarist and the Rancher (1960)

The Gun Like Lightning (1960)

Goro

The Happy Dancers (1956)

The Human Cyclone (1959)

Masa

The Killers (1991)

The Notorious Bored Samurai 6 (1991)

The Rambler in the Sunset (1960)

The Rambler on a Pearl Farm (1960)

The Rambler under the Southern Cross (1961)

The Wild, Unruly Drifter (1960)

The Witty Samurai (1972)

Thirteen Times a Loser (1969)

Seiji Okitsu

This Heartbeat (1988)

This Is Home (1956)

Three Stray Dogs (1965)

Tiger of the Sea (1964)

Tokyo no Kodoku (1959)

Tough Cop - Ginza Police (1994)

Tough Cop 2 - HEART CRASH (1995)

Traces of Lead (1962)

Tsukiyo no kasa (1955)

Volcano Wind (1960)

We Live Today (1959)

Who is in the Background? (1959)

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower (1969)

Wounded Beast (1959)

Yabanjin no Nekutai (1969)

Yakyuukyou no Uta (1985)

Your Life (1966)

Zattō ni hikarume (1959)

死の壁の脱出 (1958)

Jiro Asaoka

Appearances (1)

Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki (2026)

Self (archive footage)