Kanako Higuchi
Biography
Kanako Higuchi is a Japanese actress born on December 13, 1958, in Kamo, Niigata, Japan. Active in film, television, radio dramas, stage, commercials, and voice roles, she played her first lead role at the age of 20 in the television drama Kōrogi-bashi. Her film credits include Hokusai Manga, Bedtime Eyes, Zatoichi in 1989, Casshern, Memories of Tomorrow, and Ashura no Jō Blood Gets In Your Eyes. Her television roles include portraying Lady Yodo in the 1987 NHK Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune and Hanayasha in the 1991 Taiga drama Taiheiki. Additionally, she has represented the cosmetics firms KOSÉ and Kao.
Career overview
Kanako Higuchi is a Japanese actress born in Kamo, Niigata, on December 13, 1958. Her extensive career encompasses film, television, and radio dramas, along with stage productions, commercials, and voice roles. At the age of twenty, she played her first lead role in the television drama Kōrogi-bashi.
In television, her roles include portraying Lady Yodo in the 1987 NHK Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune and Hanayasha in the 1991 Taiga drama Taiheiki. Her film credits feature appearances in Hokusai Manga, Bedtime Eyes, Zatoichi released in 1989, Casshern, Memories of Tomorrow, and Ashura no Jō Blood Gets In Your Eyes.
Beyond her acting in dramatic works and media productions, she has represented the cosmetics firms KOSÉ and Kao in commercials. Her professional name in Japanese is written as 樋口可南子, and she is also known as 糸井可南子.
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- Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku (2020) as Shimasu Yako
- The Pearls of the Stone Man (2015) as Ryoko Kobayashi
- Time Never Stops (2014) as Asako Saigo
- Ohisama (2011) as Tokuko Maruyama
- Detective Lovesick (2010) as Tamae Aoki
- A Little Princess (2009) as Mimura Chieko
- Door To Door (2009) as Kurasawa Mitsue
- Atsuhime (2008)
- Achilles and the Tortoise (2008) as Sachiko
- The Invitation from Cinema Orion (2007) as Yoshie Miyoshi
- Memories of Tomorrow (2006) as Emiko Saeki
- Ashura (2005) as Bizan
- Casshern (2004) as Midori Azuma
- Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004)
- Karaoke Terror (2003) as Midori Suzuki
- Shara (2003) as Shouko
- Hana (2003)
- The Private Detective Mike (2002)
- Letter from the Mountain (2002) as Michiko Ueda
- Saigo no Kazoku (2001)
- Amakarashan (1997) as 神沢（榊）ふみ
- The Oil-Hell Murder (1992) as Okichi
- Heat Wave (1991) as Rin Jyoshima
- Shimanto River (1991)
- Ronin-gai (1990) as Oshin
- Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally (1989) as Boss Han Bosatsu
- Love is Always Almond Pink (1988)
- Masamune Shogun (1987) as Kanako Higuchi
- Bedtime Eyes (1987)
- Tora-san, the Go-Between (1985) as Wakana Egami
- Romansu (1984) as 小島はる
- The Wangan Highway (1984) as Fumiko Sugimoto
- Deaths in Tokimeki (1984) as Hiromi Kozue
- Modori River (1983) as Kotoe
- Manji (1983) as Mitsuko Shido
- Sketchbook of Early Spring (1983)
- Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun (1983)
- Toge no Gunzo (1982)
- 雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯 (1982)
- Edo Porn (1981) as Onao
- The Night of Martial Law (1980)
- Nukata no Ōkimi (1980)