Kanako Higuchi

Kanako Higuchi (66)

1958-12-13 | Kamo, Niigata Prefecture, 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.

On Movies

  • The Pearls of the Stone Man
  • Door To Door
  • Achilles and the Tortoise
  • The Invitation from Cinema Orion
  • Memories of Tomorrow
  • Ashura
  • Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
  • Casshern
  • Karaoke Terror
  • Shara
  • Letter from the Mountain
  • The Oil-Hell Murder
  • Shimanto River
  • Heat Wave
  • Ronin-gai
  • Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
  • Love is Always Almond Pink
  • Bedtime Eyes
  • Tora-san, the Go-Between
  • The Wangan Highway
  • Deaths in Tokimeki
  • Manji
  • Edo Porn

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