Kanako Higuchi
Acting
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.
As actor 42
Amakarashan
1997
Masamune Shogun
1987
Atsuhime
2008
Ohisama
2011
Modori River
1983
Toge no Gunzo
1982
Detective Lovesick
2010
Edo Porn
1981
The Private Detective Mike
2002
Casshern
2004
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
2020
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
1989
Bedtime Eyes
1987
Ronin-gai
1990
Romansu
1984
A Little Princess
2009
The Night of Martial Law
1980
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
2004
Manji
1983
Hana
2003
The Oil-Hell Murder
1992
Nukata no Ōkimi
1980
Saigo no Kazoku
2001
Heat Wave
1991
Letter from the Mountain
2002
Tora-san, the Go-Between
1985
Achilles and the Tortoise
2008
Sketchbook of Early Spring
1983
Memories of Tomorrow
2006
Ashura
2005
Shara
2003
The Wangan Highway
1984
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
2007
Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
1983
Time Never Stops
2014
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
Door To Door
2009
Karaoke Terror
2003
Shimanto River
1991
Deaths in Tokimeki
1984
雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯
1982
Love is Always Almond Pink
1988