Kanako Higuchi
Actor
December 13, 1958 (67 years)
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.
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
| 2020 | Kotaki Brothers · as Shimasu Yako |
| 2015 | The Pearls of the Stone Man · as Ryoko Kobayashi |
| 2011 | Sunshine (2011) · as Tokuko Maruyama |
| 2010 | Detective Lovesick · as Tamae Aoki |
| 2009 | A Little Princess · as Mimura Chieko |
| 2009 | Door to Door · as Kurasawa Mitsue |
| 2008 | Achilles and the Tortoise · as Sachiko |
| 2008 | |
| 2007 | The Invitation from Cinema Orion · as Yoshie Miyoshi |
| 2006 | Memories of Tomorrow · as Emiko Saeki |
| 2005 | Blood Gets in Your Eyes · as Bizan |
| 2004 | |
| 2004 | Casshern · as Midori Azuma |
| 2003 | Shôwa kayô daizenshû · as Midori Suzuki |
| 2003 | Shara · as Shouko |
| 2002 | Letter from the Mountain · as Michiko Ueda |
| 2002 | |
| 1992 | The Oil-Hell Murder · as Okichi |
| 1991 | |
| 1991 | Heat Wave · as Rin Jyoshima |
| 1991 | Taiheiki · as Hanayasha |
| 1990 | Ronin Gai · as Oshin |
| 1989 | Zatoichi · as Boss Han Bosatsu |
| 1988 | |
| 1987 | |
| 1985 | Tora-san, the Go-between · as 江上若菜 |
| 1984 | Deaths in Tokimeki · as Hiromi Kozue |
| 1983 | Modori River · as Kotoe |
| 1983 | Manji · as Mitsuko Shido |
| 1981 | Edo Porn · as Onao |
| 1987 | Masamune the One-Eyed Dragon · as Kanako Higuchi |
| 1976 | Tetsuko's Room · as Self |