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Joe Shishido

Born: 1933-12-06

From: Kita, Osaka, Japan

About: 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 the Ace" (エースのジョー Ēsu no Jō) for his popular role in the Western Fast-Draw Guy (1961).

Film credits:

Zattō ni hikarume

The Alaska Story

Tale on Tokai Chivalry

Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba

Debt King Part VII: Millennium

The Cleanup

The Trap

Jo Shishido

Run the Beast

JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet

100 Gamblers

Love Eternal

Kimagure tosei

The Angry Rambler

Nuki uchi fūraibō

A Colt Is My Passport

Shuji Kamimura

Cell No. 8

Hayauchi burai - Daiheigen no otoko

Branded to Kill

Gorô Hanada

Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2

To Love

Chinen

The Frozen Plains

Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death

Joe of Aces: Give and Take

Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)

A Night In Nude: Salvation

Naoki Yamagami

Rusty Knife

Shimabara

Cruel Gun Story

Togawa

Small Rats of the Edo Town

Hidematsu

The Killers

Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel

Joe of Aces

Notorious Bastard

Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

Tokuji Hayakawa

Gate of Flesh

Shintaro Ibuki

Edo Porn

Jyuppensha Ikku

A Surgeon Named Hitman

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

Tominoichi

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

Hideo Tajima

Fugitive Alien

Captain Joe

I Are You, You Am Me

Kouzou Saitoh

Detective Office 5

500

Star Force: Fugitive Alien II

Captain Joe

Velvet Hustler

Bad Girl Mako

Yasuoka

Greatest Boss Of Japan

Massacre Gun

Ryûichi Kuroda

Ofukuro

Exiled to Hell

None But the Brave

Hitori tabi

The Final Judgement

Lao Porto

The Aftermath of War

Profile of a Boss' Son

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

Hachiro Tachibana

Last Round

Youth of the Beast

Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno

I'm All Yours

Your Life

I'll End in Hell

Joji Dan

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

Katsutoshi Otomo

Quick Draw Joe

Joe the Ace

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

Yabanjin no Nekutai

Go As Messy As Messy Can Be

Mujitori

Asia-Pol

George

Jūdan no arashi

The Return of the Filthy Seven

The Crimson Plains

Joji Sakuma

A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness

Cop

神様のピンチヒッター

Remembering the Cosmos Flower

Frankie the Milkman

Zenkichi Matsubara

Caribe: Symphony of Love

Shunsuke Saichu

The Doctor

Crimson pistol belt

The Most Terrible Time in My Life

Joe

The Code

Detective 500

The Stairway to the Distant Past

Jo Shishido

Asiapol Secret Service

George Eaton

Drowning Fish

Ace no Jo

Who is in the Background?

The Setting Sun

Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye

Black Jack

Namari o buchikome

Chivalrous Pride

Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

School Principal

Return of the Vagabond

The Rambler Rides Again

Love and Desire in the Night Mist

The Rambler on a Pearl Farm

Retaliation

Hino

Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari

Tsukiyo no kasa

Voice Without a Shadow

Hamazaki

Yakyuukyou no Uta

Glass-Hearted Johnny

Jô

Conflagration

Chief Engineer Kosai

Charming Men

Kobe Saburo

The Rambling Guitarist

George

The Notorious Bored Samurai 6

Policeman's Diary

Patrolman Yabuta

Murder Unincorporated

Jiro (Joe of Spades)

Nurse's Husband

The Happy Dancers

Kingorô no omawari-san

Called to the Stand

Kanshō fujin

Danger Pays

Jôji Kondô

High Seas Hijack

Chief Engineer Kosai

The Maid's Kid

Tokyo no Kodoku

Ore no sora

Genjiro Yasuda

Nozomi Witches

Ryotaro's father

Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude

Macaroni

New Shameless School

Gebageba

Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet

Junichi Mizuta

The Sea of Genkai

Sawaki

The Boy Who Came Back

Red Crow and the Ghost Ship

Captain

Tiger of the Sea

Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu

Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16

Masaki Yoshihara

The Dragon and the Tiger

The Rambler in the Sunset

The Guitarist from the Sea

Wind of Volcano

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

Gin of the Colt

The Hard Core Criminal

A Man's World

The Naked Woman and the Gun

Blood for Blood

Naoto Tezuka

The Rough One

Imano's Bodyguard

New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line

Gambling Code and Feuds

Katsuya Sekikawa

Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet

Junichi Mizuta

My Sweetheart

President Shishido

The Gun Like Lightning

Goro

The Man with a Sinister Laugh

Ken

The Human Cyclone

Masa

Monk's Paradise

Kisaragi

Ooiso Long Beach Host

Our Wedding

The Rambler under the Southern Cross

Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph

Kokichi Yamaguch

You'll Fall For Me

The Dragon of Macao

Aizu

Blood Shed

Seiji

Turning Point

Hashizume

The First Catch

Blue Jeans Memory

Shameless School: Tackle Kiss

Macaroni

Shameless School

Macaroni

Leave My Girl Alone

Bar Owner

Burning Clouds

Take It Easy

Sukanpin Walk

Tatsuya Sekikawa

Flower & Snake II

Shiawase wa doko ni

Tetsuo Shimura

Danger Point: The Road to Hell

The Champion

Boxer Ishiyama

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri

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

Jinsei Gekijo

Confession

A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life

Temptation

Goro Yasui

8 Man - For All Lonely Nights

Dr. Tani

The Guitarist and the Rancher

Gun Number Zero

Wounded Beast

Mighty Rules

Taiyō o buchi otose

Again

Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha

Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living

Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)

Seishun wo warera ni

Takai

The Gambler

Joe of Aces

Yakuza Jihad

Mekishiko mushuku

Nosappu no jū

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

Hideo Tajima

Machi ga nemuru toki

Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3

Breasts and Bullets

Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow

Jo of the Colt

Fukushu no Teio

Kazunari Inaba

Muhō Ichidai

Gambler in the Sea

Merciless Bullet

Yukie's lover

Pacific Porters

The Cards Will Tell

Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong

Fossilized Wilderness

Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

Noritsugu Hayakawa

This Heartbeat

魔性の女

Akai ka to Rokudenashi

We Live Today

The Witty Samurai

Hell Festival

Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure

Tokyo do mannaka

Hyodo

Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ

Modern Yakuza: Chivalry

Switching – Goodbye Me

Yoshinosuke Yoshida

Proud Ambition 2

Proud Ambition

Hometown

Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa

Alumni Association

Proud Ambition 3

Proud Ambition 4

Shin Japan's Don: Waves

Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless

Shin Japan's Don 4

Shin Japan's Don 5

Shin Japan's Don 6

Proud Ambition 5

Outlaw's Gold

三鬼鉄

Tale on Kanto Chivalry

Masa from Kanto

Three Stray Dogs

Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood

Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street

Chivalrous Outlaw