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.

Known For

The Private Detective Mike

Masamune Shogun

Atsuhime

Toge no Gunzo

Detective Lovesick

Ohisama

Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku

Amakarashan

All Movies (27)

• The Pearls of the Stone Man2015 · as Ryoko Kobayashi
• Time Never Stops2014 · as Asako Saigo
• Door To Door2009 · as Kurasawa Mitsue
• Achilles and the Tortoise2008 · as Sachiko
• The Invitation from Cinema Orion2007 · as Yoshie Miyoshi
• Memories of Tomorrow2006 · as Emiko Saeki
• Ashura2005 · as Bizan
• Crying Out Love in the Center of the World2004
• Casshern2004 · as Midori Azuma
• Karaoke Terror2003 · as Midori Suzuki
• Hana2003
• Shara2003 · as Shouko
• Letter from the Mountain2002 · as Michiko Ueda
• The Oil-Hell Murder1992 · as Okichi
• Shimanto River1991
• Heat Wave1991 · as Rin Jyoshima
• Ronin-gai1990 · as Oshin
• Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally1989 · as Boss Han Bosatsu
• Love is Always Almond Pink1988
• Bedtime Eyes1987
• Tora-san, the Go-Between1985 · as Wakana Egami
• The Wangan Highway1984 · as Fumiko Sugimoto
• Deaths in Tokimeki1984 · as Hiromi Kozue
• Modori River1983
• Manji1983 · as Mitsuko Shido
• Edo Porn1981 · as Onao
• The Night of Martial Law1980

All TV Shows (15)

• Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku2020 · as Shimasu Yako
• Ohisama2011 · as Tokuko Maruyama
• Detective Lovesick2010 · as Tamae Aoki
• A Little Princess2009 · as Mimura Chieko
• Atsuhime2008
• The Private Detective Mike2002
• Saigo no Kazoku2001
• Amakarashan1997 · as 神沢（榊）ふみ
• Masamune Shogun1987 · as Kanako Higuchi
• Romansu1984 · as 小島はる
• Sketchbook of Early Spring1983
• Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun1983
• Toge no Gunzo1982
• 雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯1982
• Nukata no Ōkimi1980