RIP Joe Shishido

Death of actor Joe Shishido, the "Japanese Jean-Paul Belmondo"

BFM TV

1/21/2020

Actor Joe Shishido, star of several major action films and iconoclasts of the 1950s and 1960s, such as  The Mark of the Killer , died Monday at the age of 86, announces his official website.

Joe Shishido, who appeared in over 300 films, was known for his protruding cheeks which made him look like a hamster. He had them enlarged in 1957 to appear more beautiful and more mysterious. However, it was the opposite effect that occurred on the screen: the actor gained strangeness and wacky.

"Suzuki found his Jean-Paul Belmondo in the person of Joe Shishido, a dark and chubby brown, who had his cheekbones reshaped in order to give himself, he assured, a more ambiguous air", Le Monde noted in 2015 .

During the 1950s and 1960s, Joe Shishido was the favorite actor of Seijun Suzuki, with whom he made five films, including  Detective Bureau 2-3 , The Youth of the Beast and  The Mark of the Killer , which revolutionized the history of cinema and inspired Quentin Tarantino and Jim Jarmusch.

"Shishido often wanders in [Seijun] Suzuki's films with dark glasses that he puts on and takes off constantly, occasionally winking at the viewer," according to Le Monde .

Joe Shishido, who began his career in 1955, played his last role in 2012. Only a tiny part of his bloated filmography is available in France.

Shishido Joe (Jô Shishido)

Born: 12/6/1933, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan

Died: 1/20/2020, Japan

Joe Shishido’s westerns – actor:

Nosappu no jô – 1961

Quick Draw Joe – 1961 (Joe of Aces)

Mekishiko mushuku – 1962 (Jo Nonaka)