Kanako Higuchi
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.
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Movies (27)
The Pearls of the Stone Man2015Ryoko Kobayashi
Time Never Stops2014Asako Saigo
Door To Door2009Kurasawa Mitsue
Achilles and the Tortoise2008Sachiko
The Invitation from Cinema Orion2007Yoshie Miyoshi
Memories of Tomorrow2006Emiko Saeki
Ashura2005Bizan
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World2004
Casshern2004Midori Azuma
Karaoke Terror2003Midori Suzuki
Hana2003
Shara2003Shouko
Letter from the Mountain2002Michiko Ueda
The Oil-Hell Murder1992Okichi
Shimanto River1991
Heat Wave1991Rin Jyoshima
Ronin-gai1990Oshin
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally1989Boss Han Bosatsu
Love is Always Almond Pink1988
Bedtime Eyes1987
Tora-san, the Go-Between1985Wakana Egami
The Wangan Highway1984Fumiko Sugimoto
Deaths in Tokimeki1984Hiromi Kozue
Modori River1983Kotoe
Manji1983Mitsuko Shido
Edo Porn1981Onao
The Night of Martial Law1980
Shows (15)
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku2020Shimasu Yako
Ohisama2011Tokuko Maruyama
Detective Lovesick2010Tamae Aoki
A Little Princess2009Mimura Chieko
Atsuhime2008
The Private Detective Mike2002- Saigo no Kazoku2001
Amakarashan1997神沢（榊）ふみ
Masamune Shogun1987Kanako Higuchi
Romansu1984小島はる
Sketchbook of Early Spring1983
Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun1983
Toge no Gunzo1982
雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯1982
Nukata no Ōkimi1980