Kanako Higuchi
Acting
Born December 13, 1958, Kamo, Niigata, Japan
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.
Filmography
- Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku — Shimasu Yako
- 2015The Pearls of the Stone Man — Ryoko Kobayashi
- 2014Time Never Stops — Asako Saigo
- Ohisama — Tokuko Maruyama
- Detective Lovesick — Tamae Aoki
- A Little Princess — Mimura Chieko
- 2009Door To Door — Kurasawa Mitsue
- 2008Achilles and the Tortoise — Sachiko
- Atsuhime
- 2007The Invitation from Cinema Orion — Yoshie Miyoshi
- 2006Memories of Tomorrow — Emiko Saeki
- 2005Ashura — Bizan
- 2004Casshern — Midori Azuma
- 2004Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
- 2003Hana
- 2003Karaoke Terror — Midori Suzuki
- 2003Shara — Shouko
- 2002Letter from the Mountain — Michiko Ueda
- The Private Detective Mike
- Saigo no Kazoku
- Amakarashan — 神沢（榊）ふみ
- 1992The Oil-Hell Murder — Okichi
- 1991Heat Wave — Rin Jyoshima
- 1991Shimanto River
- 1990Ronin-gai — Oshin
- 1989Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally — Boss Han Bosatsu
- 1988Love is Always Almond Pink
- 1987Bedtime Eyes
- Masamune Shogun — Kanako Higuchi
- 1985Tora-san, the Go-Between — 江上若菜
- 1984Deaths in Tokimeki — Hiromi Kozue
- Romansu — 小島はる
- 1984The Wangan Highway — Fumiko Sugimoto
- 1983Manji — Mitsuko Shido
- 1983Modori River — Kotoe
- 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
- 1981Edo Porn — Onao
- Nukata no Ōkimi
- 1980The Night of Martial Law