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
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
早射ち無頼 大平原の男
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
Moeru minamijūjisei
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
Yabanjin no Nekutai
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
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
Sara no hana no toge
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
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
Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
Retaliation
Hino
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
Called to the Stand
Kingorô no omawari-san
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 Harenchi Gakuen College
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
Wind of Volcano
The Guitarist from the Sea
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
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, Reporter
The First Catch
Blue Jeans Memory
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
Macaroni
Shameless School
Macaroni
Leave My Girl Alone
Bar Owner
Burning Clouds
Sukanpin Walk
Tatsuya Sekikawa
Take It Easy
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
Wounded Beast
Gun Number Zero
Mighty Rules
Taiyō o buchi otose
Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
Again
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
Seishun wo warera ni
Takai
The Gambler
Joe of Aces
Gokudô seisen: Jihaado
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
Taiheiyō no katsugiya
Shows
Star Wolf
Captain Joe
Detective Office 5: Another Story
Chief 500
Blitz!! Strada 5
Takamura Terujiro / Jupiter
Kimi no na wa
角倉勘次
Pro Hunter
菊島雄三
Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji
Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
Gendō
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
Fujio Tashiro
Netchū Jidai: Keiji Hen