Kanako Higuchi
Known for 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.
Filmography
Achilles and the Tortoise
2008
as Sachiko
The Night of Martial Law
1980
Edo Porn
1981
as Onao
Modori River
1983
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
1989
as Boss Han Bosatsu
Casshern
2004
as Midori Azuma
Bedtime Eyes
1987
The Oil-Hell Murder
1992
as Okichi
Ashura
2005
as Bizan
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
2004
Manji
1983
as Mitsuko Shido
Heat Wave
1991
as Rin Jyoshima
Ronin-gai
1990
as Oshin
Memories of Tomorrow
2006
as Emiko Saeki
Karaoke Terror
2003
as Midori Suzuki
Letter from the Mountain
2002
as Michiko Ueda
Deaths in Tokimeki
1984
as Hiromi Kozue
Tora-san, the Go-Between
1985
as Wakana Egami
Time Never Stops
2014
as Asako Saigo
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
as Ryoko Kobayashi