Joe Shishido Movies

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

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

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...

A humorous yakuza action melodrama with gangsters, drugs and that old comedy-standby, white slavery.

Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into...

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.

Japanese drama film.

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

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and...

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

On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified....

Zenroku Nichigami, a charismatic con artist, is tasked with collecting a debt from the elusive Shishiro Oba. As he delves deeper, Zenroku uncovers a...

The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over...

Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick...

Bored Hatamoto film

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