Kanako Higuchi
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
Movie
Casshern
as Midori Azuma
2004
Movie
Achilles and the Tortoise
as Sachiko
2008
Movie
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
2004
Movie
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
as Boss Han Bosatsu
1989
Movie
Shara
as Shouko
2003
Movie
Edo Porn
as Onao
1981
Movie
Ashura
as Bizan
2005
Movie
Memories of Tomorrow
as Emiko Saeki
2006
Movie
Ronin-gai
as Oshin
1990
Movie
Manji
as Mitsuko Shido
1983
Movie
Heat Wave
as Rin Jyoshima
1991
Movie
The Oil-Hell Murder
as Okichi
1992
Movie
Karaoke Terror
as Midori Suzuki
2003
Movie
Letter from the Mountain
as Michiko Ueda
2002
TV
Detective Lovesick
as Tamae Aoki
2010
TV
Atsuhime
2008
Movie
The Pearls of the Stone Man
as Ryoko Kobayashi
2015
TV
Masamune Shogun
as Kanako Higuchi
1987
Movie
Bedtime Eyes
1987
TV
The Private Detective Mike
2002
Movie
Tora-san, the Go-Between
as Wakana Egami
1985
Movie
Deaths in Tokimeki
as Hiromi Kozue
1984
Movie
Shimanto River
1991
TV
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
as Shimasu Yako
2020