Joe Shishido Movies

Coming of age film about rock musicians.

After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the...

A young gambler returns from prison to find his gang scattered, and many gone over to his old rival. But their rivalry is not only a matter of...

When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their...

After Tokyo police officer Yokoda is killed in the line of duty, his chief decides give Yokoda's body to Dr. Tani for use in a secret scientific...

A man who has left the yakuza world is drawn back into the fray for his younger brother in this gunfighting action film.

Tatsusaburo Sunagawa, the assistant underboss of the Morita Family, ousts Yukichi Matsuura, Matsuura Family head, from his position as underboss of...

Former students of the notorious Harenchi Gakuen college open a new school for dissident youths after their former school is ruined by disputes.

One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko...

A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the...

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

Osaka, 1993. Sunagawa, assistant to the Morita Family underboss, proposes the establishment of a "Commercial Mutual Aid Association" as a future...

Kogoro Akechi solves the mystery of the invisible culprit and the invisible weapon.

A major international action film filmed on location in Hong Kong, depicting the activities of Asian Interpol, the Asian branch of a secret police...

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

Yasue (Todoroki) and Fumikichi (Oda), a married couple, have no children, but they take in children from other places and wind up raising three kids.

Ryo, Eiji and Katsuya assemble as usual in an underground car park, only this time, the woman who has always accompanied them is missing. Driving...