Kanako Higuchi
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.
Movies 27
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
2004
Casshern
as Midori Azuma
2004
Edo Porn
as Onao
1981
Ronin-gai
as Oshin
1990
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
as Boss Han Bosatsu
1989
Letter from the Mountain
as Michiko Ueda
2002
Manji
as Mitsuko Shido
1983
The Oil-Hell Murder
as Okichi
1992
Achilles and the Tortoise
as Sachiko
2008
Modori River
as Kotoe
1983
Karaoke Terror
as Midori Suzuki
2003
Memories of Tomorrow
as Emiko Saeki
2006
Bedtime Eyes
1987
Ashura
as Bizan
2005
Heat Wave
as Rin Jyoshima
1991
The Pearls of the Stone Man
as Ryoko Kobayashi
2015
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
as Yoshie Miyoshi
2007
Door To Door
as Kurasawa Mitsue
2009
Tora-san, the Go-Between
as 江上若菜
1985
The Night of Martial Law
1980
The Wangan Highway
as Fumiko Sugimoto
1984
Hana
2003
Love is Always Almond Pink
1988
Shara
as Shouko
2003
Time Never Stops
as Asako Saigo
2014
Deaths in Tokimeki
as Hiromi Kozue
1984
Shimanto River
1991TV Shows 16
Ohisama
as Tokuko Maruyama
2011
Atsuhime
2008
Romansu
as 小島はる
1984
Amakarashan
as 神沢（榊）ふみ
1997
Masamune Shogun
as Kanako Higuchi
1987
Toge no Gunzo
1982
The Private Detective Mike
2002
Detective Lovesick
as Tamae Aoki
2010
A Little Princess
as Chieko Mimura
2009
San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku
1996
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
as Shimasu Yako
2020
Sketchbook of Early Spring
1983
Nukata no Ōkimi
1980
Saigo no Kazoku
2001
雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯
1982