Kanako Higuchi
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
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
as Ryoko Kobayashi
Time Never Stops
2014
as Asako Saigo
Door To Door
2009
as Kurasawa Mitsue
Achilles and the Tortoise
2008
as Sachiko
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
2007
as Yoshie Miyoshi
Memories of Tomorrow
2006
as Emiko Saeki
Ashura
2005
as Bizan
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
2004
Casshern
2004
as Midori Azuma
Karaoke Terror
2003
as Midori Suzuki
Hana
2003
Shara
2003
as Shouko
Letter from the Mountain
2002
as Michiko Ueda
The Oil-Hell Murder
1992
as Okichi
Shimanto River
1991
Heat Wave
1991
as Rin Jyoshima
Ronin-gai
1990
as Oshin
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
1989
as Boss Han Bosatsu
Love is Always Almond Pink
1988
Bedtime Eyes
1987
Tora-san, the Go-Between
1985
as Wakana Egami
The Wangan Highway
1984
as Fumiko Sugimoto
Deaths in Tokimeki
1984
as Hiromi Kozue
Modori River
1983
as Kotoe