Beloved Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He has appeared in over 200 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).
238 movies · 12 shows
The Final Judgement
2012·1.0
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
2011·5.0
A Night in Nude: Salvation
2010·5.7
The Code
2009·6.2
Switching – Goodbye Me
2007·6.6
Kisaragi
2007·6.9
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2
2007·5.0
Proud Ambition 5
2006·0.0
Proud Ambition 4
2006·0.0
Proud Ambition 2
2006·0.0
Proud Ambition
2006·0.0
A Surgeon Named Hitman
2006·0.0
Detective Office 5
2005·0.0
Shin Japan's Don 6
2005·0.0
Proud Ambition 3
2005·0.0
Flower & Snake II
2005·6.5
Shin Japan's Don 5
2005·0.0
Shin Japan's Don 4
2005·0.0
Class Reunion
2004·0.0
Shin Japan's Don 2: Ruthless
2004·0.0
Shin Japan's Don: Waves
2004·0.0
Yakuza Jihad
2002·8.0
Drowning Fish
2001·7.7
Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
2001·0.0
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
2000·0.0
Heisei Kin'yudo: Muruhi no Onna
2000·0.0
Hometown
1999·0.0
To Love
1997·6.7
Remembering the Cosmos Flower
1997·5.0
The Trap
1996·6.8
Fukushu no Teio
1995·6.0
The Stairway to the Distant Past
1995·7.2
Tough Cop 2 - HEART CRASH
1995·0.0
Turning Point
1994·7.0
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
1994·7.5
Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
1994·0.0
Tough Cop - Ginza Police
1994·0.0
Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
1993·0.0
JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
1993·0.0
The Setting Sun
1992·4.8
The Gambler
1992·0.0
8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
1992·4.1
Danger Point: The Road to Hell
1991·7.5
The Notorious Bored Samurai 6
1991·0.0
God's Pinch Hitter
1991·0.0
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
1991·0.0
The Killers
1991·0.0
Run the Beast
1990·0.0
Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba
1990·0.0
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
1990·6.6
Nozomi Witches
1990·6.0
You'll Fall For Me
1989·7.0
Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
1989·7.0
This Heartbeat
1988·0.0
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1988·6.3
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
1987·4.7
Fugitive Alien
1987·3.9
The Beauty in the Black Mask
1987·0.0
Leave My Girl Alone
1986·7.5
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986·6.9
Katayoku dake no tenshi
1986·0.0
Take It Easy
1986·0.0
I'm All Yours
1985·4.7
Caribe: Symphony of Love
1985·7.0
Yakyuukyou no Uta
1985·0.0
Again
1984·0.0
Sukanpin Walk
1984·7.5
Our Wedding
1983·8.5
I Are You, You Am Me
1982·6.6
Fossilized Wilderness
1982·8.0
Edo Porn
1981·6.0
Blue Jeans Memory
1981·0.0
The First Catch
1980·2.7
Nurse's Husband
1980·7.0
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978·6.1
Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
1977·6.2
High Seas Hijack
1977·10.0
Gambling Code and Feuds
1977·7.0
Ore no sora
1977·0.0
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
1977·5.5
The Alaska Story
1977·8.0
The Sea of Genkai
1976·5.8
Conflagration
1975·7.0
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974·5.8
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1974·7.2
Center of Tokyo
1974·0.0
The Hard Core Criminal
1973·7.5
None But the Brave
1973·6.3
Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
1973·0.0
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1972·10.0
New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
1972·7.1
The Witty Samurai
1972·0.0
Bad Girl Mako
1971·6.0
Monk's Paradise
1971·7.0
Blood for Blood
1971·7.0
Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
1971·0.0
Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
1971·0.0
A Man's World
1971·8.0
New Shameless School
1971·9.0
Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
1970·8.0
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
1970·8.0
Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
1970·8.0
Charming Men
1970·9.0
Kikeki: onna mo tsurai wa
1970·0.0
Shameless School
1970·5.0
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
1970·9.0
Greatest Boss of Japan
1970·0.0
Profile of a Boss' Son
1970·10.0
The Cleanup
1969·10.0
Biographies of Killers
1969·0.0
Thirteen Times a Loser
1969·0.0
Chivalrous Pride
1969·0.0
Ex Convict: Sword Storm
1969·0.0
The Rough One
1969·10.0
100 Gamblers
1969·7.0
Yabanjin no Nekutai
1969·0.0
Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
1969·9.0
Exiled to Hell
1969·0.0
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
1969·0.0
魔性の女
1968·7.0
Retaliation
1968·5.9
Stardust Wharf
1968·8.0
Outlaw's Gold
1967·0.0
The Aftermath of War
1967·0.0
My Sweetheart
1967·0.0
The Return of the Filthy Seven
1967·9.0
Velvet Hustler
1967·6.8
Massacre Gun
1967·7.2
Asia-Pol
1967·7.2
Branded to Kill
1967·7.2
Burning Clouds
1967·0.0
A Colt Is My Passport
1967·7.0
Asiapol Secret Service
1966·6.0
Your Life
1966·0.0
Love Eternal
1966·0.0
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
1966·0.0
Blood Shed
1966·7.0
Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
1966·6.3
The Dragon and the Tiger
1966·7.0
The Dragon of Macao
1965·8.0
Three Stray Dogs
1965·0.0
Murder Unincorporated
1965·6.5
Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
1965·0.0
Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
1965·0.0
Kenjū burai jō nagare-sha no mure
1965·0.0
Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
1964·6.0
Tiger of the Sea
1964·0.0
Gate of Flesh
1964·6.6
Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ
1964·0.0
Jinsei Gekijo
1964·7.0
Cruel Gun Story
1964·6.6
Tale on Tokai Chivalry
1964·0.0
Hell Festival
1963·0.0
Chivalrous Outlaw
1963·0.0
Tale on Kanto Chivalry
1963·0.0
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
1963·0.0
Akai ka to Rokudenashi
1963·0.0
Youth of the Beast
1963·6.9
Notorious Bastard
1963·0.0
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
1963·6.5
Traces of Lead
1962·0.0
Danger Pays
1962·7.0
Glass-Hearted Johnny
1962·0.0
Jūdan no arashi
1962·0.0
Last Round
1962·0.0
Solo Traveler
1962·0.0
The Frozen Plains
1962·0.0
Nuki uchi fūraibō
1962·0.0
Kimagure tosei
1962·0.0
Mexico Drifter
1962·8.0
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961·0.0
Crimson Pistol
1961·0.0
I'll End in Hell
1961·9.0
Gun of Nosappu
1961·10.0
The Crimson Plains
1961·0.0
Gambler in the Sea
1961·0.0
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
1961·0.0
Quick Draw Joe
1961·0.0
Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
1961·0.0
Pacific Porters
1961·10.0
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1961·0.0
Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
1960·9.0
The Angry Rambler
1960·0.0
The Rambler Rides Again
1960·10.0
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960·0.0
The Man with a Sinister Laugh
1960·8.0
The Rambler in the Sunset
1960·0.0
Wind of Volcano
1960·0.0
The Gun Like Lightning
1960·0.0
Return of the Vagabond
1960·5.0
The Guitarist from the Sea
1960·3.5
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
1960·8.0
The Cards Will Tell
1960·0.0
The Guitarist and the Rancher
1960·0.0
Mighty Rules
1959·0.0
Who is in the Background?
1959·0.0
The Rambling Guitarist
1959·6.9
The Human Cyclone
1959·0.0
Crime Reporter
1959·0.0
Merciless Bullet
1959·0.0
Tokyo no Kodoku
1959·0.0
Machi ga nemuru toki
1959·0.0
Gun Number Zero
1959·0.0
Wounded Beast
1959·0.0
We Live Today
1959·0.0
Zattō ni hikarume
1959·0.0
Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
1958·0.0
Voice Without a Shadow
1958·6.2
Taiyō o buchi otose
1958·0.0
The Boy Who Came Back
1958·7.6
死の壁の脱出
1958·0.0
Rusty Knife
1958·5.9
Breasts and Bullets
1958·0.0
The Naked Woman and the Gun
1957·7.0
Small Rats of the Edo Town
1957·0.0
Temptation
1957·8.0
The Champion
1957·6.4
Muhō Ichidai
1957·0.0
Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
1957·0.0
Frankie the Milkman
1956·8.5
Kingorô no omawari-san
1956·0.0
Kanshō fujin
1956·0.0
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956·9.0
The Happy Dancers
1956·0.0
This Is Home
1956·0.0
Seishun wo warera ni
1956·10.0
Confession
1956·0.0
Called to the Stand
1956·8.0
Cell No. 8
1956·0.0
The Doctor
1955·10.0
Tsukiyo no kasa
1955·0.0
The Maid's Kid
1955·8.3
Ofukuro
1955·7.0
Policeman's Diary
1955·7.0
His Highness Surabaya
1955·0.0
My Pistol Is Quick
1954·0.0
Women's House
1954·6.0
The Black Current
1954·10.0