Jô Shishido Movies

Branded to Kill

74/100

After a badly done assignment, a hitman finds himself in conflict with his organisation, and one mysterious and dangerous fellow-hitman in particular.

Youth of the Beast

76/100

A violent thug plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other.

Gate of Flesh

76/100

After World War II, some Tokyo prostitutes band together with a strict code: no pimps, attack any street walker who comes into our territory, defend the abandoned building we call home, and... See full summary »

A Colt Is My Passport

75/100

A hit man is hired to kill a mob boss. After the deed is done, he and his driver are wanted dead by rival gangs who joined forces.

Final Episode

76/100

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

Cruel Gun Story

72/100

A convict fresh out of prison, with a handicapped sister, is coerced by a wealthy mob boss into organizing an armored racetrack car heist.

Fugitive Alien

23/100

An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!

69/100

Police detective Tajima, tasked with tracking down stolen firearms, turns an underworld grudge into a blood-bath. Suzuki transforms a colorful pot-boiler into an on-target send-up of cultural colonialism and post-war greed.

Star Force: Fugitive Alien II

19/100

In this second film compiled from two episodes of a Japanese TV serial, Captain Joe, reformed interstellar marauder Ken and the rest of the crew of the Backus-3 set off to destroy an alien ... See full summary »

Massacre Gun

71/100

Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) ... See full summary »

Retaliation

69/100

Jiro, an ex-convict, comes back to the street after eight years. The gang to which he belonged is nearly disbanded; only the aging boss in his sick bed remains. Still loyal to the ex-boss, ... See full summary »

Danger Pays

67/100

When one billion yen goes AWOL, "Joe the Ace" (Shishido) spies an opportunity to get rich quick, but things soon go wrong as it turns out he isn't the only one who'll stop at nothing to get his hands on the missing cash.

The Visitor in the Eye

61/100

Komori Tiaki is a budding tennis student, however one day in training her coach hits the ball into her eye accidentally. She is taken to hospital but is advised that she will never regain the sight in her eye.

Toba no mesu neko: sutemi no shôbu

61/100

When the mysterious Joe of Spades executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder Unincorporated to take care of the problem.

Rokudenashi kagyo

54/100

Murder Unincorporated

59/100

When a mob cartel is threatened with assassination of its leadership, and indeed one of its heads is shot, the remaining heads hire hitmen of their own via an audition as defense. With ... See full summary »

Mekishiko mushuku

68/100

Aisuru

66/100

Two young people meet by chance and fall in love but the woman is diagnosed with leprosy and sent away to a remote mountain sanitorium.

Asiapol Secret Service

64/100

Tôkyô-wan enjô

60/100

Ryuji the Gun Slinger

67/100

Furyô shôjô Mako

58/100

Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company...

Hayauchi yarô

60/100

Kenjû burai-chô: Futeki ni warau otoko

67/100

Harenchi gakuen: shintai kensa no maki

56/100