Jo, the real Japanese hero
If you're a fan of one of Japan's most stylish director, Seijun Suzuki, then I'm sure that you're aware of Shishido Jo. In the east, his claim to fame is his roles in Suzuki's Branded to Kill and Youth of Beast. In the West, he's known as the Japanese actor that got cheek inplants. Really. As this site says, Jo "decided to puff up his cheeks by plastic surgery in an attempt to emerge as an impudent bad guy". Now if only an American actor had the balls to puff his cheeks up like a chipmunk so that he'd look more sinsister. I can only dream....