Kanako Higuchi
- Acting
- December 13, 1958 · Kamo, Niigata, Japan
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku · Shimasu Yako
- The Pearls of the Stone Man · Ryoko Kobayashi
- Time Never Stops · Asako Saigo
- Ohisama · Tokuko Maruyama
- Detective Lovesick · Tamae Aoki
- A Little Princess · Mimura Chieko
- Door To Door · Kurasawa Mitsue
- Achilles and the Tortoise · Sachiko
- Atsuhime
- The Invitation from Cinema Orion · Yoshie Miyoshi
- Memories of Tomorrow · Emiko Saeki
- Ashura · Bizan
- Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
- Casshern · Midori Azuma
- Karaoke Terror · Midori Suzuki
- Hana
- Shara · Shouko
- Letter from the Mountain · Michiko Ueda
- The Private Detective Mike
- Saigo no Kazoku
- Amakarashan · 神沢（榊）ふみ
- The Oil-Hell Murder · Okichi
- Shimanto River
- Heat Wave · Rin Jyoshima
- Ronin-gai · Oshin
- Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally · Boss Han Bosatsu
- Love is Always Almond Pink
- Bedtime Eyes
- Masamune Shogun · Kanako Higuchi
- Tora-san, the Go-Between · 江上若菜
- The Wangan Highway · Fumiko Sugimoto
- Romansu · 小島はる
- Deaths in Tokimeki · Hiromi Kozue
- Modori River · Kotoe
- Manji · Mitsuko Shido
- Sketchbook of Early Spring
- Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
- Toge no Gunzo
- 雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯
- Edo Porn · Onao
- The Night of Martial Law
- Nukata no Ōkimi