Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 13, 1958
Place of Birth
Kamo, Niigata, Japan
Credits
42 titles
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.
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
Wakana Egami
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