Kanako Higuchi
Actor
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.
Filmography
Achilles and the Tortoise
as Sachiko 2008
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
2004
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
as Boss Han Bosatsu 1989
Shara
as Shouko 2003
Edo Porn
as Onao 1981
Ashura
as Bizan 2005
Memories of Tomorrow
as Emiko Saeki 2006
Manji
as Mitsuko Shido 1983
Ronin-gai
as Oshin 1990
Heat Wave
as Rin Jyoshima 1991
The Oil-Hell Murder
as Okichi 1992
Letter from the Mountain
as Michiko Ueda 2002
Karaoke Terror
as Midori Suzuki 2003
The Pearls of the Stone Man
as Ryoko Kobayashi 2015
Bedtime Eyes
1987
Tora-san, the Go-Between
as Wakana Egami 1985