Kanako Higuchi
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1958-12-13
Place of birth: Kamo, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
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.
Known for
Casshern
2004Midori Azuma
Achilles and the Tortoise
2008Sachiko
The Night of Martial Law
1980
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
1989Boss Han Bosatsu
Shara
2003Shouko
Ashura
2005Bizan
Edo Porn
1981Onao
Letter from the Mountain
2002Michiko Ueda
Ronin-gai
1990Oshin
Heat Wave
1991Rin Jyoshima
Memories of Tomorrow
2006Emiko Saeki
The Oil-Hell Murder
1992Okichi
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
2007Yoshie Miyoshi
Manji
1983Mitsuko Shido
Time Never Stops
2014Asako Saigo
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015Ryoko Kobayashi
Tora-san, the Go-Between
1985Wakana Egami
Hana
2003
Door To Door
2009Kurasawa Mitsue