Personal Info
Birth date
1933-12-06 (91 Years)
Day of death
2020-01-18
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Kita, Osaka, Japan
Also known as
Jo Shishido
جو شیشیدو
Jō 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 the Ace" (エースのジョー Ēsu no Jō) for his popular role in the Western Fast-Draw Guy (1961).
Filmography
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
8.2
Overview:
A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather.Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
9
Overview:
Kaze to kumo to Niji to deals with the Heian period in Japan. Based on Chōgorō Kaionji`s novels Taira no Masakado and Umi to Kaze to Niji to. The drama was made by Go Kato`s request. The story chronicles the life of Taira no Masakado . The story begins with Masakado′s childhood. Masakado happens to meet Fujiwara no Hidesato, and he thinks that he want to be great Samurai like Hidesato in the future.Blitz!! Strada 5
NYR
Overview:
Battle between international criminal organizations and the secret team of international police formed against these organizations. An action drama incorporating element of children's hero program, Tokusatsu, such as characters with superhuman motor nerves and the appearance of super machines. "Strada 5" is the name of this secret team.Netchū Jidai: Keiji Hen
NYR
Overview:
The struggle of a rookie detective, portrayed with a cheerful and comical touch.Star Wolf
NYR
Overview:
Star Wolf is a Japanese science fiction TV series inspired by the novel series bearing the same name, by American writer Edmond Hamilton. It was produced in 1978 by Tsuburaya Productions.Big City: Days of Struggle
NYR
Overview:
In the big city where loyalty is rare and justice comes hard, a stoic detective (Tetsuya Watari) and his old friend, a sharp-eyed reporter (Yujiro Ishihara), forge a quiet alliance, uncovering brutal truths in days of relentless struggle.Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
NYR
Overview:
In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run. However, he quickly begins to feel homesick, and returns home to find that almost everything has changed. Noriko is now a bar mama with a lavish lifestyle, Yumeko is nowhere to be found, and his boss (Toru Minegishi) seems to have sinister plans involving Junko and his uncle (Jo Shishido).Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
NYR
Overview:
A maverick man arrives at Yūhigaoka School. The drama incorporates educational issues as well as family problems and adult romance, and can be enjoyed by the whole family.Edo Porn
5.958
Overview:
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
5
Overview:
Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives off of the money earned by his girlfriend and is more interested in trying to look cool than anything else. He meets Yumeko (Chikako Aoyama), an innocent but dangerous narcoleptic runaway, after she steals his car, and she soon moves in with him. Following the assassination of a high-ranking member by the Kazama Family, Junko is called on to be the lookout while the family gets revenge. However, the other men quickly "zoom", or escape from their duty, leaving the task to Junko. Will he take out Kazama, or will he zoom?Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji
NYR
Overview:
Set mainly in and around the Aizumi Police Station, this detective drama depicts a detective with a past as a former delinquent who fights against the rapidly increasing number of juvenile crimes.Flower & Snake II
6.4
Overview:
The beautiful Shizuko and her husband Toyama Takayoshi have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi is getting older and isn't always able to perform. His primary source of gratification involves observing his wife in sadomasochistic scenarios so he commissions a painter, skilled in the arts of bondage to bring these fantasies to life. Soon, Shiziko becomes a willing and submissive participant in fulfilling the S&M fantasies of not only her husband but a slew of rich lecherous men.Youth of the Beast
6.9
Overview:
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.Branded to Kill
7.221
Overview:
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.A Night in Nude: Salvation
6.5
Overview:
A beautiful mother and her two daughters run a bar in a town. They have a dream of becoming rich, reforming the building, and living as celebrities. With no chance of their dream coming true with just their everyday earnings, they had another face - blinding the elderly with their beauty, putting on insurance coverage and seeking to get rich quick by murdering. However, their scheme begins to collapse from one little mistake.Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
7.317
Overview:
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.Gate of Flesh
6.5
Overview:
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. With Gate of Flesh, visionary director Seijun Suzuki delivers a whirlwind of social critique and pulp drama, shot through with brilliant colors and raw emotions.Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
6.3
Overview:
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.Rusty Knife
5.9
Overview:
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city council member. Evidence about the case leads the D.A. to Tachibana, struggling to go straight after involvement with the mob and a prison sentence for killing the man responsible for the rape and suicide of his fiancée. One of Tachibana's friends is Keiko, the daughter of the dead councilman and the ward of another powerful official. How do these stories connect?Kisaragi
6.971
Overview:
The fanclub of a deceased Japanese idol gather together for the one year anniversary of her death. By combining forces they try to unearth the true circumstances surrounding her supposed suicide.Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
6.2
Overview:
The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
5.571
Overview:
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.Cruel Gun Story
6.5
Overview:
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?A Colt Is My Passport
7
Overview:
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
6.3
Overview:
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
6.7
Overview:
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully, who takes a romantic interest in his older stepsister. When they learn she’s going to be sold to a brothel to pay off her father’s debts, they form an uneasy alliance to free her.Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
5.5
Overview:
Komori Chiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day while training, her coach hits a ball into her eye on accident. At the hospital, the news that she will never regain the sight in her eye leaves her heartbroken. As a last resort, she undergoes a costly surgery from the mysterious doctor known as Black Jack, where after a successful operation, a mysterious figure starts to emerge in her vision, and only she can see it.Acting
2012The Final Judgement as Lao Porto
2011Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3 as Unknown
2010A Night in Nude: Salvation as Naoki / Yamagami
2009The Code as Detective 500
2007Kisaragi as Ooiso Long Beach Host
2007Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2 as Unknown
2006A Surgeon Named Hitman as Unknown
2005Detective Office 5 as 500
2005Detective Office 5: Another Story (3 Episodes) as Chief 500
2005Flower & Snake II as Unknown
2002Gokudô seisen: Jihaado as Unknown
2001Drowning Fish as Ace no Jo
2000Debt King Part VII: Millennium as Unknown
1997To Love as Chinen
1997Remembering the Cosmos Flower as Unknown
1996The Trap as Jo Shishido
1995Fukushu no Teio as Kazunari Inaba
1995The Files of the Young Kindaichi (2 Episodes) as Fujio Tashiro
1995The Stairway to the Distant Past as Jo Shishido
1994Turning Point as Hashizume
1994The Most Terrible Time in My Life as Joe
1994Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong as Unknown
1993Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death as Unknown
1993JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet as Unknown
1992The Setting Sun as Unknown
1992The Gambler as Joe of Aces
19928 Man - For All Lonely Nights as Dr. Tani
1991Danger Point: The Road to Hell as Unknown
1991The Notorious Bored Samurai 6 as Unknown
1991神様のピンチヒッター as Unknown
1991Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet as Junichi Mizuta
1991Kimi no na wa (312 Episodes) as 角倉勘次
1991The Killers as Unknown
1990Run the Beast as Unknown
1990Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba as Unknown
1990Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet as Junichi Mizuta
1990Nozomi Witches as Ryotaro's father
1989You'll Fall For Me as Unknown
1989Red Crow and the Ghost Ship as Captain
1988This Heartbeat as Unknown
1988Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis as Tokuji Hayakawa, Noritsugu Hayakawa
1987Fugitive Alien as Captain Joe
1987Star Force: Fugitive Alien II as Captain Joe
1986Leave My Girl Alone as Bar Owner
1986Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast as School Principal
1986Take It Easy as Unknown
1985I'm All Yours as Unknown
1985Caribe: Symphony of Love as Shunsuke Saichu
1985Yakyuukyou no Uta as Unknown
1984Again as Unknown
1984Sukanpin Walk as Tatsuya Sekikawa
1983Our Wedding as Unknown
1982I Are You, You Am Me as Kouzou Saitoh
1982Fossilized Wilderness as Unknown
1981Edo Porn as Jyuppensha Ikku
1981Blue Jeans Memory as Unknown
1981Pro Hunter (25 Episodes) as 菊島雄三
1980The First Catch as Unknown
1980Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji (26 Episodes) as Unknown
1980Nurse's Husband as Unknown
1979Netchū Jidai: Keiji Hen (26 Episodes) as Unknown
1978Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka (40 Episodes) as Unknown
1978Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron as Tominoichi
1978Star Wolf (24 Episodes) as Captain Joe
1977Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye as Black Jack
1977High Seas Hijack as Chief Engineer Kosai
1977Gambling Code and Feuds as Katsuya Sekikawa
1977Ore no sora as Genjiro Yasuda
1977A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness as Cop
1977The Alaska Story as Unknown
1976Big City: Days of Struggle (31 Episodes) as Unknown
1976The Sea of Genkai as Sawaki
1976Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow (52 Episodes) as Gendō
1975Conflagration as Chief Engineer Kosai
1974New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Hachiro Tachibana
1974Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as Katsutoshi Otomo
1974Tokyo do mannaka as Hyodo
1974Blitz!! Strada 5 (13 Episodes) as Takamura Terujiro / Jupiter
1973The Hard Core Criminal as Unknown
1973None But the Brave as Unknown
1973Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari as Unknown
1972New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm as Unknown
1972New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line as Unknown
1972The Witty Samurai as Unknown
1971Bad Girl Mako as Yasuoka
1971Monk's Paradise as Unknown
1971Blood for Blood as Unknown
1971Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu as Unknown
1971Go As Messy As Messy Can Be as Mujitori
1971A Man's World as Unknown
1971New Shameless School as Gebageba
1970Shameless School: Tackle Kiss as Macaroni
1970New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri as Unknown
1970Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude as Macaroni
1970Charming Men as Kobe Saburo
1970Shameless School as Macaroni
1970A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life as Unknown
1970Greatest Boss Of Japan as Unknown
1970Profile of a Boss' Son as Unknown
1969The Cleanup as Unknown
1969Chivalrous Pride as Unknown
1969The Rough One as Imano's Bodyguard
1969100 Gamblers as Unknown
1969Yabanjin no Nekutai as Unknown
1969Exiled to Hell as Unknown
1969Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower as Unknown
1968魔性の女 as Unknown
1968Retaliation as Hino
1967The Aftermath of War as Unknown
1967My Sweetheart as President Shishido
1967The Return of the Filthy Seven as Unknown
1967Velvet Hustler as Unknown
1967Massacre Gun as Ryûichi Kuroda
1967Asia-Pol as George
1967Branded to Kill as Gorô Hanada
1967Burning Clouds as Unknown
1967A Colt Is My Passport as Shuji Kamimura
1966Asiapol Secret Service as George Eaton
1966Your Life as Unknown
1966Love Eternal as Unknown
1966Love and Desire in the Night Mist as Unknown
1966Blood Shed as Seiji
1966Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph as Kokichi Yamaguch
1966The Dragon and the Tiger as Unknown
1965The Dragon of Macao as Aizu
1965Murder Unincorporated as Jiro (Joe of Spades)
1965Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi as Unknown
1965Modern Yakuza: Chivalry as Unknown
1965Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure as Unknown
1964Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel as Joe of Aces
1964Tiger of the Sea as Unknown
1964Gate of Flesh as Shintaro Ibuki
1964Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ as Unknown
1964Jinsei Gekijo as Unknown
1964Cruel Gun Story as Togawa
1964Tale on Tokai Chivalry as Unknown
1963Hell Festival as Unknown
1963Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women as Hideo Tajima
1963Akai ka to Rokudenashi as Unknown
1963Youth of the Beast as Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno
1963Notorious Bastard as Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)
1963Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! as Hideo Tajima
1962Namari o buchikome as Unknown
1962Danger Pays as Jôji Kondô
1962Glass-Hearted Johnny as Jô
1962Jūdan no arashi as Unknown
1962Moeru minamijūjisei as Unknown
1962Hitori tabi as Unknown
1962The Frozen Plains as Unknown
1962Nuki uchi fūraibō as Unknown
1962Kimagure tosei as Unknown
1962Mekishiko mushuku as Unknown
1961Hayauchi burai - Daiheigen no otoko as Unknown
1961Crimson pistol belt as Unknown
1961I'll End in Hell as Joji Dan
1961Nosappu no jū as Unknown
1961The Crimson Plains as Joji Sakuma
1961Gambler in the Sea as Unknown
1961Joe of Aces: Give and Take as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
1961Quick Draw Joe as Joe the Ace
1961Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
1961Taiheiyō no katsugiya as Unknown
1961The Rambler under the Southern Cross as Unknown
1960Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow as Jo of the Colt
1960The Angry Rambler as Unknown
1960The Rambler Rides Again as Unknown
1960The Rambler on a Pearl Farm as Unknown
1960The Man with a Sinister Laugh as Ken
1960The Rambler in the Sunset as Unknown
1960Wind of Volcano as Unknown
1960The Gun Like Lightning as Goro
1960Return of the Vagabond as Unknown
1960The Guitarist from the Sea as Unknown
1960Ryuji, the Gun Slinger as Gin of the Colt
1960The Cards Will Tell as Unknown
1960The Guitarist and the Rancher as Unknown
1959Mighty Rules as Unknown
1959Who is in the Background? as Unknown
1959The Rambling Guitarist as George
1959The Human Cyclone as Masa
1959Merciless Bullet as Yukie's lover
1959Tokyo no Kodoku as Unknown
1959Machi ga nemuru toki as Unknown
1959Gun Number Zero as Unknown
1959Wounded Beast as Unknown
1959We Live Today as Unknown
1959Zattō ni hikarume as Unknown
1958Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha as Unknown
1958Voice Without a Shadow as Hamazaki
1958Taiyō o buchi otose as Unknown
1958The Boy Who Came Back as Unknown
1958Rusty Knife as Shimabara
1958Breasts and Bullets as Unknown
1957The Naked Woman and the Gun as Unknown
1957Small Rats of the Edo Town as Hidematsu
1957Temptation as Goro Yasui
1957The Champion as Boxer Ishiyama
1957Muhō Ichidai as Unknown
1957Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16 as Masaki Yoshihara
1956Frankie the Milkman as Zenkichi Matsubara
1956Kingorô no omawari-san as Unknown
1956Kanshō fujin as Unknown
1956Shiawase wa doko ni as Tetsuo Shimura
1956The Happy Dancers as Unknown
1956Seishun wo warera ni as Takai
1956Confession as Unknown
1956Called to the Stand as Unknown
1956Cell No. 8 as Unknown
1955The Doctor as Unknown
1955Tsukiyo no kasa as Unknown
1955The Maid's Kid as Unknown
1955Ofukuro as Unknown
1955Policeman's Diary as Patrolman Yabuta