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).
Movies
A Colt Is My Passport
Shuji Kamimura
Branded to Kill
Gorô Hanada
To Love
Chinen
A Night in Nude: Salvation
Naoki / Yamagami
Cruel Gun Story
Togawa
Rusty Knife
Shimabara
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Katsutoshi Otomo
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Tokuji Hayakawa
Edo Porn
Jyuppensha Ikku
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Tominoichi
Gate of Flesh
Shintaro Ibuki
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Hideo Tajima
Fugitive Alien
Captain Joe
I Are You, You Am Me
Kouzou Saitoh
Called to the Stand
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
Captain Joe
Velvet Hustler
Massacre Gun
Ryûichi Kuroda
None But the Brave
The Final Judgement
Lao Porto
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Hachiro Tachibana
Youth of the Beast
Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno
Quick Draw Joe
Joe the Ace
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
Cop
Frankie the Milkman
Zenkichi Matsubara
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Joe
The Code
Detective 500
The Stairway to the Distant Past
Jo Shishido
The Visitor in the Eye
Black Jack
Return of the Vagabond
Voice Without a Shadow
Hamazaki
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
School Principal
The Rambler Rides Again
Glass-Hearted Johnny
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Conflagration
Chief Engineer Kosai
Drowning Fish
Ace no Jo
The Rambling Guitarist
George
Asia-Pol
George
Murder Unincorporated
Jiro (Joe of Spades)
Retaliation
Hino
Nurse's Husband
Kingorô no omawari-san
Kanshō fujin
The Happy Dancers
Policeman's Diary
Patrolman Yabuta
Danger Pays
Jôji Kondô
Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
Mujitori
High Seas Hijack
Chief Engineer Kosai
Bad Girl Mako
Yasuoka
The Maid's Kid
Ore no sora
Genjiro Yasuda
Nozomi Witches
Ryotaro's father
Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
Macaroni
New Harenchi Gakuen College
Gebageba
The Sea of Genkai
Sawaki
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Junichi Mizuta
Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
Captain
The Boy Who Came Back
Кадзита
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
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
Blood For Blood
The Rough One
Imano's Bodyguard
Gambling Code and Feuds
Katsuya Sekikawa
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Junichi Mizuta
The Man with a Sinister Laugh
Ken
The Gun Like Lightning
Goro
The Human Cyclone
Masa
My Sweetheart
President Shishido
Monk's Paradise
Kisaragi
Ooiso Long Beach Host
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Kokichi Yamaguch
Our Wedding
You'll Fall For Me
The Dragon of Macao
Aizu
Blood Shed
Seiji
The First Catch
Turning Point
Hashizume, Reporter
Blue Jeans Memory
Shameless School
Macaroni
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
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
The Champion
Boxer Ishiyama
Danger Point: The Road to Hell
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
Again
The Guitarist and the Rancher
Wounded Beast
Gun Number Zero
Mighty Rules
Taiyō o buchi otose
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
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
Hideo Tajima
Gokudô seisen: Jihaado
Mekishiko mushuku
Nosappu no jū
Machi ga nemuru toki
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
Breasts and Bullets
Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
Jo of the Colt
The Alaska Story
Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
The Cleanup
The Trap
Jo Shishido
Small Rats of the Edo Town
Hidematsu
The Killers
Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
Joe of Aces
A Surgeon Named Hitman
Detective Office 5
500
Exiled to Hell
Ofukuro
Profile of a Boss' Son
The Aftermath of War
I'm All Yours
I'll End in Hell
Joji Dan
The Return of the Filthy Seven
神様のピンチヒッター
Remembering the Cosmos Flower
Caribe: Symphony of Love
Shunsuke Saichu
Crimson pistol belt
Asiapol Secret Service
George Eaton
The Setting Sun
Who is in the Background?
Chivalrous Pride
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Tsukiyo no kasa
Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
Tale on Tokai Chivalry
Zattō ni hikarume
Run the Beast
JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
100 Gamblers
Love Eternal
Kimagure tosei
The Angry Rambler
Nuki uchi fūraibō
Cell No. 8
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
早射ち無頼 大平原の男
The Frozen Plains
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
Notorious Bastard
Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)
Greatest Boss Of Japan
Hitori tabi
Moeru minamijūjisei
Your Life
Yabanjin no Nekutai
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
Jūdan no arashi
The Crimson Plains
Joji Sakuma
Sara no hana no toge
Namari o buchikome
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
Yakyuukyou no Uta
Charming Men
Kobe Saburo
The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
Shows
Blitz!! Strada 5
Takamura Terujiro / Jupiter
Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
Gendō
Detective Office 5: Another Story
Chief 500
Kimi no na wa
角倉勘次
Pro Hunter
菊島雄三
Star Wolf
Captain Joe
Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka