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Joe Shishido

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

06/12/1933

Day of Death

18/01/2020
(87) years old

Place of Birth

Kita, Osaka, Japan

Joe Shishido

Biography

Beloved Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He has appeared in some 300 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... Read More

Known For

Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3

A Night in Nude: Salvation

The Code

Kisaragi

Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2

A Surgeon Named Hitman

Detective Office 5

Flower & Snake II

Gokudô seisen: Jihaado

Filmography

Cast

2012

The Final Judgement

as Lao Porto

2011

Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3

2010

A Night in Nude: Salvation

as Naoki / Yamagami

2009

The Code

as Detective 500

2007

Kisaragi

as Ooiso Long Beach Host

2007

Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2

2006

A Surgeon Named Hitman

2005

Detective Office 5

as 500

2005

Flower & Snake II

2002

Gokudô seisen: Jihaado

2001

Drowning Fish

as Ace no Jo

2000

Debt King Part VII: Millennium

1997

To Love

as Chinen

1997

Remembering the Cosmos Flower

1996

The Trap

as Jo Shishido

1995

Fukushu no Teio

as Kazunari Inaba

1995

The Stairway to the Distant Past

as Jo Shishido

1994

Turning Point

as Hashizume

1994

The Most Terrible Time in My Life

as Joe

1994

Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjon...

1993

Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death

1993

JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet

1992

The Setting Sun

1992

The Gambler

as Joe of Aces

1992

8 Man - For All Lonely Nights

as Dr. Tani

1991

Danger Point: The Road to Hell

1991

The Notorious Bored Samurai 6

1991

神様のピンチヒッター

1991

Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet

as Junichi Mizuta

1991

The Killers

1990

Run the Beast

1990

Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba

1990

Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet

as Junichi Mizuta

1990

Nozomi Witches

as Ryotaro's father

1989

You'll Fall For Me

1989

Red Crow and the Ghost Ship

as Captain

1988

This Heartbeat

1988

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

as Tokuji Hayakawa

1988

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

as Noritsugu Hayakawa

1987

Fugitive Alien

as Captain Joe

1987

Star Force: Fugitive Alien II

as Captain Joe

1986

Leave My Girl Alone

as Bar Owner

1986

Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and...

as School Principal

1986

Take It Easy

1985

I'm All Yours

1985

Caribe: Symphony of Love

as Shunsuke Saichu

1985

Yakyuukyou no Uta

1984

Again

1984

Sukanpin Walk

as Tatsuya Sekikawa

1983

Our Wedding

1982

I Are You, You Am Me

as Kouzou Saitoh

1982

Fossilized Wilderness

1981

Edo Porn

as Jyuppensha Ikku

1981

Blue Jeans Memory

1980

The First Catch

1980

Nurse's Husband

1978

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

as Tominoichi

1977

Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye

as Black Jack

1977

High Seas Hijack

as Chief Engineer Kosai

1977

Gambling Code and Feuds

as Katsuya Sekikawa

1977

Ore no sora

as Genjiro Yasuda

1977

A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness

as Cop

1977

The Alaska Story

1976

The Sea of Genkai

as Sawaki

1975

Conflagration

as Chief Engineer Kosai

1974

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

as Hachiro Tachibana

1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Fina...

as Katsutoshi Otomo

1974

Tokyo do mannaka

as Hyodo

1973

The Hard Core Criminal

1973

None But the Brave

1973

Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari

1972

New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Hum...

1972

New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line

1972

The Witty Samurai

1971

Bad Girl Mako

as Yasuoka

1971

Monk's Paradise

1971

Blood for Blood

1971

Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu

1971

Go As Messy As Messy Can Be

as Mujitori

1971

A Man's World

1971

New Shameless School

as Gebageba

1970

Shameless School: Tackle Kiss

as Macaroni

1970

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stake...

1970

Shameless School: Health Check in the Nu...

as Macaroni

1970

Charming Men

as Kobe Saburo

1970

Shameless School

as Macaroni

1970

A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life

1970

Greatest Boss Of Japan

1970

Profile of a Boss' Son

1969

The Cleanup

1969

Chivalrous Pride

1969

The Rough One

as Imano's Bodyguard

1969

100 Gamblers

1969

Yabanjin no Nekutai

1969

Exiled to Hell

1969

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

1968

魔性の女

1968

Retaliation

as Hino

1967

The Aftermath of War

1967

My Sweetheart

as President Shishido

1967

The Return of the Filthy Seven

1967

Velvet Hustler

1967

Massacre Gun

as Ryûichi Kuroda

1967

Asia-Pol

as George

1967

Branded to Kill

as Gorô Hanada

1967

Burning Clouds

1967

A Colt Is My Passport

as Shuji Kamimura

1966

Asiapol Secret Service

as George Eaton

1966

Your Life

1966

Love Eternal

1966

Love and Desire in the Night Mist

1966

Blood Shed

as Seiji

1966

Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of T...

as Kokichi Yamaguch

1966

The Dragon and the Tiger

1965

The Dragon of Macao

as Aizu

1965

Murder Unincorporated

as Jiro (Joe of Spades)

1965

Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi

1965

Modern Yakuza: Chivalry

1965

Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure

1964

Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel

as Joe of Aces

1964

Tiger of the Sea

1964

Gate of Flesh

as Shintaro Ibuki

1964

Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ

1964

Jinsei Gekijo

1964

Cruel Gun Story

as Togawa

1964

Tale on Tokai Chivalry

1963

Hell Festival

1963

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Mone...

as Hideo Tajima

1963

Akai ka to Rokudenashi

1963

Youth of the Beast

as Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno

1963

Notorious Bastard

as Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)

1963

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastar...

as Hideo Tajima

1962

Namari o buchikome

1962

Danger Pays

as Jôji Kondô

1962

Glass-Hearted Johnny

as Jô

1962

Jūdan no arashi

1962

Moeru minamijūjisei

1962

Hitori tabi

1962

The Frozen Plains

1962

Nuki uchi fūraibō

1962

Kimagure tosei

1962

Mekishiko mushuku

1961

Hayauchi burai - Daiheigen no otoko

1961

Crimson pistol belt

1961

I'll End in Hell

as Joji Dan

1961

Nosappu no jū

1961

The Crimson Plains

as Joji Sakuma

1961

Gambler in the Sea

1961

Joe of Aces: Give and Take

as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)

1961

Quick Draw Joe

as Joe the Ace

1961

Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living

as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)

1961

Taiheiyō no katsugiya

1961

The Rambler under the Southern Cross

1960

Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomor...

as Jo of the Colt

1960

The Angry Rambler

1960

The Rambler Rides Again

1960

The Rambler on a Pearl Farm

1960

The Man with a Sinister Laugh

as Ken

1960

The Rambler in the Sunset

1960

Wind of Volcano

1960

The Gun Like Lightning

as Goro

1960

Return of the Vagabond

1960

The Guitarist from the Sea

1960

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

as Gin of the Colt

1960

The Cards Will Tell

1960

The Guitarist and the Rancher

1959

Mighty Rules

1959

Who is in the Background?

1959

The Rambling Guitarist

as George

1959

The Human Cyclone

as Masa

1959

Merciless Bullet

as Yukie's lover

1959

Tokyo no Kodoku

1959

Machi ga nemuru toki

1959

Gun Number Zero

1959

Wounded Beast

1959

We Live Today

1959

Zattō ni hikarume

1958

Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha

1958

Voice Without a Shadow

as Hamazaki

1958

Taiyō o buchi otose

1958

The Boy Who Came Back

1958

Rusty Knife

as Shimabara

1958

Breasts and Bullets

1957

The Naked Woman and the Gun

1957

Small Rats of the Edo Town

as Hidematsu

1957

Temptation

as Goro Yasui

1957

The Champion

as Boxer Ishiyama

1957

Muhō Ichidai

1957

Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16

as Masaki Yoshihara

1956

Frankie the Milkman

as Zenkichi Matsubara

1956

Kingorô no omawari-san

1956

Kanshō fujin

1956

Shiawase wa doko ni

as Tetsuo Shimura

1956

The Happy Dancers

1956

Seishun wo warera ni

as Takai

1956

Confession

1956

Called to the Stand

1956

Cell No. 8

1955

The Doctor

1955

Tsukiyo no kasa

1955

The Maid's Kid

1955

Ofukuro

1955

Policeman's Diary

as Patrolman Yabuta