Kanako Higuchi
ActingKanako 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
Filmography — Acting
The Night of Martial Law
Manji
Mitsuko Shido
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Boss Han Bosatsu
Modori River
Casshern
Midori Azuma
The Oil-Hell Murder
Okichi
Bedtime Eyes
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Achilles and the Tortoise
Sachiko
Edo Porn
Onao
Ashura
Bizan
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Wakana Egami
Karaoke Terror
Midori Suzuki
Heat Wave
Rin Jyoshima
Ronin-gai
Oshin
Deaths in Tokimeki
Hiromi Kozue
Memories of Tomorrow
Emiko Saeki
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Yoshie Miyoshi
Letter from the Mountain
Michiko Ueda
Shara
Shouko
Time Never Stops
Asako Saigo
Shimanto River
Door To Door
Kurasawa Mitsue
The Pearls of the Stone Man
Ryoko Kobayashi
Hana
Love is Always Almond Pink
The Wangan Highway
Fumiko Sugimoto