Kanako Higuchi
Known for: Acting
Born: December 13, 1958
Place of birth: Kamo, Niigata, Japan
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.
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Filmography
27 movies · 15 TV shows, newest first
8.8
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
2020
8.3
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
10.0
Time Never Stops
2014
9.0
Ohisama
2011
7.2
Detective Lovesick
2010
8.0
A Little Princess
2009
9.3
Door To Door
2009
7.0
Achilles and the Tortoise
2008
9.0
Atsuhime
2008
6.5
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
2007
6.1
Memories of Tomorrow
2006
5.3
Ashura
2005
7.3
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
2004
5.9
Casshern
2004
5.7
Karaoke Terror
2003
NR
Hana
2003
6.3
Shara
2003
8.2
Letter from the Mountain
2002
8.5
The Private Detective Mike
2002NR
Saigo no Kazoku
2001
NR
Amakarashan
1997
5.9
The Oil-Hell Murder
1992
6.8
Shimanto River
1991
5.9
Heat Wave
1991
6.2
Ronin-gai
1990
6.5
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
1989
NR
Love is Always Almond Pink
1988
4.7
Bedtime Eyes
1987
9.0
Masamune Shogun
1987
6.9
Tora-san, the Go-Between
1985
8.0
The Wangan Highway
1984
2.0
Romansu
1984
7.2
Deaths in Tokimeki
1984
5.7
Modori River
1983
5.2
Manji
1983
8.0
Sketchbook of Early Spring
1983
NR
Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
1983
NR
Toge no Gunzo
1982
NR
雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯
1982
5.9
Edo Porn
1981
NR
The Night of Martial Law
1980
NR
Nukata no Ōkimi
1980