Kanako Higuchi
Acting • Born 1958-12-13
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.
Filmography
42 credits
Casshern
Movie • 2004
Midori Azuma
Achilles and the Tortoise
Movie • 2008
Sachiko
The Night of Martial Law
Movie • 1980
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Movie • 1989
Boss Han Bosatsu
Shara
Movie • 2003
Shouko
Ashura
Movie • 2005
Bizan
Edo Porn
Movie • 1981
Onao
Letter from the Mountain
Movie • 2002
Michiko Ueda
Ronin-gai
Movie • 1990
Oshin
Heat Wave
Movie • 1991
Rin Jyoshima
Memories of Tomorrow
Movie • 2006
Emiko Saeki
The Oil-Hell Murder
Movie • 1992
Okichi
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Movie • 2007
Yoshie Miyoshi
Manji
Movie • 1983
Mitsuko Shido
Time Never Stops
Movie • 2014
Asako Saigo
The Pearls of the Stone Man
Movie • 2015
Ryoko Kobayashi
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Movie • 1985
Wakana Egami
Hana
Movie • 2003
Door To Door
Movie • 2009
Kurasawa Mitsue
Deaths in Tokimeki
Movie • 1984
Hiromi Kozue
Love is Always Almond Pink
Movie • 1988
The Wangan Highway
Movie • 1984
Fumiko Sugimoto
Bedtime Eyes
Movie • 1987
Modori River
Movie • 1983
Shimanto River
Movie • 1991
Karaoke Terror
Movie • 2003
Midori Suzuki
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Movie • 2004
Toge no Gunzo
TV • 1982
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
TV • 2020
Shimasu Yako
Saigo no Kazoku
TV • 2001
The Private Detective Mike
TV • 2002
Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
TV • 1983
Detective Lovesick
TV • 2010
Tamae Aoki
Masamune Shogun
TV • 1987
Kanako Higuchi
Ohisama
TV • 2011
Tokuko Maruyama
Amakarashan
TV • 1997
神沢（榊）ふみ
Romansu
TV • 1984
小島はる
A Little Princess
TV • 2009
Mimura Chieko
Atsuhime
TV • 2008
Nukata no Ōkimi
TV • 1980
雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯
TV • 1982
Sketchbook of Early Spring
TV • 1983