Portrait of Kanako Higuchi

Kanako Higuchi

Acting

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.

Born: December 13, 1958

Place of Birth: Kamo, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Filmography

2015
The Pearls of the Stone Man

as Ryoko Kobayashi

2014
Time Never Stops

as Asako Saigo

2011
Ohisama

as Tokuko Maruyama

2010
Detective Lovesick

as Tamae Aoki

2009
A Little Princess

as Mimura Chieko

2009
Door To Door

as Kurasawa Mitsue

2006
Memories of Tomorrow

as Emiko Saeki

2005
Ashura

as Bizan

2004
Casshern

as Midori Azuma

2003
Karaoke Terror

as Midori Suzuki

2003
2003
Shara

as Shouko

2002
1997
Amakarashan

as 神沢(榊)ふみ

1992
1991
Heat Wave

as Rin Jyoshima

1990
Ronin-gai

as Oshin

1989
1987
Masamune Shogun

as Kanako Higuchi

1985
1984
The Wangan Highway

as Fumiko Sugimoto

1984
Romansu

as 小島はる

1984
Deaths in Tokimeki

as Hiromi Kozue

1983
Manji

as Mitsuko Shido

1981
Edo Porn

as Onao