Joe Shishido Filmes

A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...

Killers Ken and Joji undertake the killing of a man named Sakai. He utters some interesting last words before being shot dead, leading Ken and Joji...

Set in the downtown area in the heart of Tokyo, this film depicts the lives of poor but kind-hearted people.

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...

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

The love and friendships of high school students

A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

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

Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a...

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival...

Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his...

Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.

An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia...

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

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

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the...

In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the...