#jo shishido

[fuckyeahmeikokaji]

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) and Jo Shishido (宍戸錠) posing for Nikkatsu’s 1969 calendar.

I didn't win the auction for it, so this is as good as we're getting for now. One day...

[jailhouse41]

Jo Shishido (宍戸 錠)

Scanned from Shukan Heibon (週刊平凡) 1967 Jan 5.

[sonimage1965]

Branded to Kill

dir. Seijun Suzuki

1967

[stardustembargo]

film is unique among the storytelling genres in that it is able to show you incredibly powerful and resonant images. like this shot of jo shishido ignoring his hot wife showering so he can huff rice

[doraemonmon]

[randomrichards]

GATE OF FLESH:

In War torn Japan

Prostitutes form alliance

‘Til ex-soldier come

[streamondemand]

'Branded to Kill' – Assassins gone wild on Criterion Channel

Seijun Suzuki’s absolutely mad yakuza movie Branded to Kill (Japan, 1967) blows the genre to smithereens. Jo Shishido stars as Goro Hanada, the Number Three hitman in a crime organization that makes him the next target after the butterfly effect upsets an important mission. Goro is no pushover and easily dispatches the first comers, leaving them splayed in death contortions that could qualify…

[hidarinoyume]

Brand to Kill ‘殺しの烙印’ (1967) Dir. Seijun Suzuki.

[04tenno]

Lesser-known agents of Daidoji...

[aeskit-ifnie]

Started making design for merch - Keychain specifically and this was a request from the delightful @vos-videmus :) It's a WIP, please do not use. They are really freaking cute. I can't.

[todayisafridaynight]

[fuckyeahmeikokaji]

Promo flyer for Retaliation (Shima Wa Moratta, 縄張はもらった), 1968, directed by Yasuharu Hasebe (長谷部安春) and starring:

Akira Kobayashi (小林旭) Jo Shishido (宍戸錠) Hideaki Nitani (二谷英明) Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) Tamio Kawachi (川地民夫) Eiji Go (郷英治) Tatsuya Fuji (藤竜也) and Jiro Okazaki (岡崎二朗)

Scanned by me.

[mudwerks]

(via JHALAL DRUT: Nitani Hideaki, Asaoka Ruriko & Shishido Jo)

[postoctobrist]

I just heard you talking about doing High and Low for KJB on Da Youtube Zone and yes. It's probably my favourite non-Samurai Kurosawa movie. Just a classic thriller.

Have you ever seen A Colt is my Passport? It's another classic Japanese Noir. Stars a guy called Jo Shishido, who got cheek implants to stand out from the run of Japanese actors.

And that put me on to Branded to Kill with the same star, directed by Seijun Suzuki, a movie about a hitman with a fetish for the smell of boiling rice, which is absolutely fucking insane.

... sorry, I get excited about Japanese Noir movies.

eventually we will do every Japanese Noir film

[comicnerdsam]

Another set of 10 for this October challenge:

11. Takeshi Kitano

12. William Finley as Winslow Leach

13. Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig

14. Jennifer Connelly from Phenomena

15. Ron Perlman

16. Juan Garcia Esquivel

17. James Randi

18. Jo Shishido

19. Humphrey Bogart

20. Bela Lugosi from Murder In The Rue Morgue

[randomrichards]

BRANDED TO KILL:

Rice sniffing killer

On the run due to botched job

Seeing weird visions