Kanako Higuchi
Acting · Born 1958-12-13 · age 67 · Kamo, Niigata, Japan
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.
Titles
Casshern
Achilles and the Tortoise
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Shara
Edo Porn
Ashura
Memories of Tomorrow
Ronin-gai
Manji
The Oil-Hell Murder
Heat Wave
Karaoke Terror
Letter from the Mountain
Detective Lovesick
Atsuhime
The Pearls of the Stone Man
Masamune Shogun
Bedtime Eyes
The Private Detective Mike
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Deaths in Tokimeki
Shimanto River
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
Door To Door
Modori River
A Little Princess
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
The Wangan Highway
Ohisama
Time Never Stops
Romansu
Sketchbook of Early Spring
The Night of Martial Law
Hana
Love is Always Almond Pink
Toge no Gunzo
Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
Amakarashan
Nukata no Ōkimi
雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯