Kanako Higuchi
Acting
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
2015The Pearls of the Stone Man
Ryoko Kobayashi
2014Time Never Stops
Asako Saigo
2009Door To Door
Kurasawa Mitsue
2008Achilles and the Tortoise
Sachiko
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
2003Shara
Shouko
2003Hana
2003Karaoke Terror
Midori Suzuki
2002Letter from the Mountain
Michiko Ueda
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
1985Tora-san, the Go-Between
Wakana Egami
1984Deaths in Tokimeki
Hiromi Kozue
1984The Wangan Highway
Fumiko Sugimoto
1983Manji
Mitsuko Shido