Kanako Higuchi
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 13, 1958 (age 67)
- Birthplace
- 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
TV · as Shimasu Yako · 1 ep
The Pearls of the Stone Man
Movie · as Ryoko Kobayashi
Time Never Stops
Movie · as Asako Saigo
Ohisama
TV · as Tokuko Maruyama
Detective Lovesick
TV · as Tamae Aoki · 1 ep
Door To Door
Movie · as Kurasawa Mitsue
A Little Princess
TV · as Chieko Mimura · 10 eps
Achilles and the Tortoise
Movie · as Sachiko
Atsuhime
TV · 50 eps
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Movie · as Yoshie Miyoshi
Memories of Tomorrow
Movie · as Emiko Saeki
Ashura
Movie · as Bizan
Casshern
Movie · as Midori Azuma
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Movie
Shara
Movie · as Shouko
Hana
Movie
Karaoke Terror
Movie · as Midori Suzuki
Letter from the Mountain
Movie · as Michiko Ueda
The Private Detective Mike
TV · 1 ep
Saigo no Kazoku
TV · 9 eps
Amakarashan
TV · as 神沢（榊）ふみ · 150 eps
San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku
TV · 1 ep
The Oil-Hell Murder
Movie · as Okichi
Heat Wave
Movie · as Rin Jyoshima
Shimanto River
Movie
Ronin-gai
Movie · as Oshin
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Movie · as Boss Han Bosatsu
Love is Always Almond Pink
Movie
Bedtime Eyes
Movie
Masamune Shogun
TV · as Kanako Higuchi · 50 eps
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Movie · as 江上若菜
Deaths in Tokimeki
Movie · as Hiromi Kozue
The Wangan Highway
Movie · as Fumiko Sugimoto
Romansu
TV · as 小島はる · 156 eps
Manji
Movie · as Mitsuko Shido
Modori River
Movie · as Kotoe
Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
TV · 1 ep
Sketchbook of Early Spring
TV · 12 eps
Toge no Gunzo
TV · 50 eps
雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯
TV · 1 ep
Edo Porn
Movie · as Onao
The Night of Martial Law
Movie
Nukata no Ōkimi
TV · 2 eps