Jō Shishido

Jō Shishido (86)

1933-12-06 - 2020-01-18 | Kita, Osaka, Japan

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).

On Movies

  • The Final Judgement
  • Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
  • A Night in Nude: Salvation
  • The Code
  • Kisaragi
  • Detective Office 5
  • Flower & Snake II
  • Gokudô seisen: Jihaado
  • Drowning Fish
  • To Love
  • Remembering the Cosmos Flower
  • The Trap
  • Fukushu no Teio
  • The Stairway to the Distant Past
  • Turning Point
  • The Most Terrible Time in My Life
  • The Setting Sun
  • 8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
  • Danger Point: The Road to Hell
  • The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
  • The Killers
  • Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
  • Nozomi Witches
  • You'll Fall For Me
  • Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
  • Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
  • Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
  • Fugitive Alien
  • Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
  • Leave My Girl Alone
  • Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
  • Take It Easy
  • I'm All Yours
  • Caribe: Symphony of Love
  • Our Wedding
  • I Are You, You Am Me
  • Edo Porn
  • The First Catch
  • Nurse's Husband
  • Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
  • Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
  • High Seas Hijack
  • Gambling Code and Feuds
  • Ore no sora
  • A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
  • The Alaska Story
  • The Sea of Genkai
  • Conflagration
  • New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
  • Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
  • The Hard Core Criminal
  • None But the Brave
  • Bad Girl Mako
  • Blood for Blood
  • Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
  • Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
  • New Harenchi Gakuen College
  • Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
  • New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
  • Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
  • Charming Men
  • Shameless School
  • Greatest Boss Of Japan
  • Profile of a Boss' Son
  • The Cleanup
  • The Rough One
  • 100 Gamblers
  • Yabanjin no Nekutai
  • Exiled to Hell
  • Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
  • Retaliation
  • The Aftermath of War
  • The Return of the Filthy Seven
  • Velvet Hustler
  • Massacre Gun
  • Asia-Pol
  • Branded to Kill
  • A Colt Is My Passport
  • Your Life
  • Love Eternal
  • Love and Desire in the Night Mist
  • Blood Shed
  • Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
  • The Dragon of Macao
  • Murder Unincorporated
  • Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
  • Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
  • Tiger of the Sea
  • Gate of Flesh
  • Jinsei Gekijo
  • Cruel Gun Story
  • Tale on Tokai Chivalry
  • Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
  • Youth of the Beast
  • Notorious Bastard
  • Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
  • Danger Pays
  • Glass-Hearted Johnny
  • Crimson pistol belt
  • I'll End in Hell
  • The Crimson Plains
  • Gambler in the Sea
  • Joe of Aces: Give and Take
  • Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
  • Quick Draw Joe
  • The Rambler under the Southern Cross
  • Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
  • The Rambler Rides Again
  • The Man with a Sinister Laugh
  • The Rambler in the Sunset
  • Wind of Volcano
  • The Gun Like Lightning
  • Return of the Vagabond
  • The Guitarist from the Sea
  • Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
  • The Cards Will Tell
  • The Guitarist and the Rancher
  • The Rambling Guitarist
  • Merciless Bullet
  • Tokyo no Kodoku
  • Gun Number Zero
  • Wounded Beast
  • Voice Without a Shadow
  • The Boy Who Came Back
  • Rusty Knife
  • The Naked Woman and the Gun
  • Small Rats of the Edo Town
  • Temptation
  • The Champion
  • Muhō Ichidai
  • Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
  • Frankie the Milkman
  • Kingorô no omawari-san
  • Kanshō fujin
  • The Happy Dancers
  • The Maid's Kid
  • Ofukuro
  • Policeman's Diary

On Series

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