Kanako Higuchi
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1958-12-13 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Kamo, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
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.
Acting
(2015)
The Pearls of the Stone Man
as Ryoko Kobayashi
(2014)
Time Never Stops
as Asako Saigo
(2009)
Door To Door
as Kurasawa Mitsue
(2008)
Achilles and the Tortoise
as Sachiko
(2007)
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
as Yoshie Miyoshi
(2006)
Memories of Tomorrow
as Emiko Saeki
(2005)
Ashura
as Bizan
(2004)
(2004)
Casshern
as Midori Azuma
(2003)
Karaoke Terror
as Midori Suzuki
(2003)
Shara
as Shouko
(2003)
(2002)
Letter from the Mountain
as Michiko Ueda
(1992)
The Oil-Hell Murder
as Okichi
(1991)
(1991)
Heat Wave
as Rin Jyoshima
(1990)
Ronin-gai
as Oshin
(1989)
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
as Boss Han Bosatsu
(1988)
(1987)
(1985)
Tora-san, the Go-Between
as Wakana Egami
(1984)
Deaths in Tokimeki
as Hiromi Kozue
(1984)
The Wangan Highway
as Fumiko Sugimoto
(1983)
(1983)
Manji
as Mitsuko Shido
(1981)
Edo Porn
as Onao
(1980)