Kanako Higuchi
Born: 1958-12-13 in Kamo, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Known For: Acting
Biography
Kanako Higuchi (樋口 可南子, Higuchi Kanako) (born December 13, 1958) is a Japanese actress. Her credits include film, television, and radio dramas, stage, commercials, and voice roles. Born in Kamo, Niigata, she played her first lead at age 20 in the television drama Kōrogi-bashi. Kanako's film credits include Hokusai Manga, Bedtime Eyes, Zatoichi (1989), Casshern, Memories of Tomorrow, and Ashura no Jō Blood Gets In Your Eyes. Among her television roles are Lady Yodo in the 1987 NHK Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune and Hanayasha in the 1991 Taiga drama Taiheiki. She has represented the cosmetics firms KOSÉ and Kao.
Filmography
2020
- Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku as Shimasu Yako
2015
- The Pearls of the Stone Man as Ryoko Kobayashi
2014
- Time Never Stops as Asako Saigo
2011
- Ohisama as Tokuko Maruyama
2010
- Detective Lovesick as Tamae Aoki
2009
- Door To Door as Kurasawa Mitsue
- A Little Princess as Mimura Chieko
2008
- Atsuhime
- Achilles and the Tortoise as Sachiko
2007
- The Invitation from Cinema Orion as Yoshie Miyoshi
2006
- Memories of Tomorrow as Emiko Saeki
2005
- Ashura as Bizan
2004
- Casshern as Midori Azuma
- Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
2003
- Hana
- Karaoke Terror as Midori Suzuki
- Shara as Shouko
2002
- Letter from the Mountain as Michiko Ueda
- The Private Detective Mike
2001
1997
- Amakarashan as 神沢（榊）ふみ
1992
- The Oil-Hell Murder as Okichi
1991
- Heat Wave as Rin Jyoshima
- Shimanto River
1990
- Ronin-gai as Oshin
1989
- Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally as Boss Han Bosatsu
1987
- Bedtime Eyes
- Masamune Shogun as Kanako Higuchi
1985
- Tora-san, the Go-Between as Wakana Egami
1984
- Romansu as 小島はる
- Deaths in Tokimeki as Hiromi Kozue
- The Wangan Highway as Fumiko Sugimoto
1983
1981
- Edo Porn as Onao