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).
Zattō ni hikarume
The Alaska Story
Tale on Tokai Chivalry
Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
The Cleanup
The Trap
As 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
As Shuji Kamimura
Cell No. 8
早射ち無頼 大平原の男
Branded to Kill
As Gorô Hanada
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
To Love
As Chinen
The Frozen Plains
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
As Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
A Night in Nude: Salvation
As Naoki / Yamagami
Rusty Knife
As Shimabara
Cruel Gun Story
As Togawa
Small Rats of the Edo Town
As Hidematsu
The Killers
Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
As Joe of Aces
Notorious Bastard
As Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
As Tokuji Hayakawa
Gate of Flesh
As Shintaro Ibuki
Edo Porn
As Jyuppensha Ikku
A Surgeon Named Hitman
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
As Tominoichi
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
As Hideo Tajima
Fugitive Alien
As Captain Joe
I Are You, You Am Me
As Kouzou Saitoh
Detective Office 5
As 500
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
As Captain Joe
Velvet Hustler
Bad Girl Mako
As Yasuoka
Greatest Boss Of Japan
Massacre Gun
As Ryûichi Kuroda
Ofukuro
Exiled to Hell
None But the Brave
Hitori tabi
The Final Judgement
As Lao Porto
The Aftermath of War
Profile of a Boss' Son
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
As Hachiro Tachibana
Moeru minamijūjisei
Youth of the Beast
As Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno
I'm All Yours
Your Life
I'll End in Hell
As Joji Dan
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
As Katsutoshi Otomo
Quick Draw Joe
As Joe the Ace
Yabanjin no Nekutai
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
As Mujitori
Asia-Pol
As George
Jūdan no arashi
The Return of the Filthy Seven
The Crimson Plains
As Joji Sakuma
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
As Cop
神様のピンチヒッター
Remembering the Cosmos Flower
Frankie the Milkman
As Zenkichi Matsubara
Caribe: Symphony of Love
As Shunsuke Saichu
Sara no hana no toge
Crimson pistol belt
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
As Joe
The Code
As Detective 500
The Stairway to the Distant Past
As Jo Shishido
Asiapol Secret Service
As George Eaton
Drowning Fish
As Ace no Jo
Who is in the Background?
The Setting Sun
The Visitor in the Eye
As Black Jack
Namari o buchikome
Chivalrous Pride
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
As 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
As Hino
Tsukiyo no kasa
Voice Without a Shadow
As Hamazaki
Yakyuukyou no Uta
Glass-Hearted Johnny
As Jô
Conflagration
As Chief Engineer Kosai
Charming Men
As Kobe Saburo
The Rambling Guitarist
As George
The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
Policeman's Diary
As Patrolman Yabuta
Murder Unincorporated
As Jiro (Joe of Spades)
Nurse's Husband
The Happy Dancers
Called to the Stand
Kingorô no omawari-san
Kanshō fujin
Danger Pays
As Jôji Kondô
High Seas Hijack
As Chief Engineer Kosai
The Maid's Kid
Tokyo no Kodoku
Ore no sora
As Genjiro Yasuda
Nozomi Witches
As Ryotaro's father
Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
As Macaroni
New Harenchi Gakuen College
As Gebageba
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
As Junichi Mizuta
The Sea of Genkai
As Sawaki
The Boy Who Came Back
Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
As Captain
Tiger of the Sea
Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
As Masaki Yoshihara
The Dragon and the Tiger
The Rambler in the Sunset
Wind of Volcano
The Guitarist from the Sea
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
As Gin of the Colt
The Hard Core Criminal
A Man's World
The Naked Woman and the Gun
Blood For Blood
The Rough One
As Imano's Bodyguard
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
Gambling Code and Feuds
As Katsuya Sekikawa
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
As Junichi Mizuta
My Sweetheart
As President Shishido
The Gun Like Lightning
As Goro
The Man with a Sinister Laugh
As Ken
The Human Cyclone
As Masa
Monk's Paradise
Kisaragi
As Ooiso Long Beach Host
Our Wedding
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
As Kokichi Yamaguch
You'll Fall For Me
The Dragon of Macao
As Aizu
Blood Shed
As Seiji
Turning Point
As Hashizume, Reporter
The First Catch
Blue Jeans Memory
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
As Macaroni
Shameless School
As Macaroni
Leave My Girl Alone
As Bar Owner
Burning Clouds
Sukanpin Walk
As Tatsuya Sekikawa
Take It Easy
Flower & Snake II
Shiawase wa doko ni
As Tetsuo Shimura
Danger Point: The Road to Hell
The Champion
As 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
As Goro Yasui
8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
As 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
As Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
Seishun wo warera ni
As Takai
The Gambler
As Joe of Aces
Gokudô seisen: Jihaado
Mekishiko mushuku
Nosappu no jū
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
As Hideo Tajima
Machi ga nemuru toki
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
Breasts and Bullets
Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
As Jo of the Colt
Star Wolf
As Captain Joe
Detective Office 5: Another Story
As Chief 500
Blitz!! Strada 5
As Takamura Terujiro / Jupiter
Kimi no na wa
As 角倉勘次
Pro Hunter
As 菊島雄三
Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji
Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
As Gendō