Kanako Higuchi
Acting
- Born:
- 1958-12-13
- Place of birth:
- Kamo, Niigata, 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
Filmography
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
The Pearls of the Stone Man
Time Never Stops
Ohisama
Detective Lovesick
A Little Princess
Door To Door
Achilles and the Tortoise
Atsuhime
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Memories of Tomorrow
Ashura
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Casshern
Karaoke Terror
Hana
Shara
Letter from the Mountain
The Private Detective Mike
Saigo no Kazoku
Amakarashan
The Oil-Hell Murder
Shimanto River
Heat Wave
Ronin-gai
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Love is Always Almond Pink
Bedtime Eyes
Masamune Shogun
Tora-san, the Go-Between
The Wangan Highway
Romansu
Deaths in Tokimeki
Modori River
Manji
Sketchbook of Early Spring
Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
Toge no Gunzo
雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯
Edo Porn
The Night of Martial Law
Nukata no Ōkimi