
Cast
Kanako Higuchi
Acting
Cast
Kanako Higuchi
Known for
Acting
Born
1958-12-13
From
Kamo, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Also known as 糸井可南子
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.

Modori River

Bedtime Eyes

Manji
as Mitsuko Shido

Edo Porn
as Onao

Casshern
as Midori Azuma

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World

The Night of Martial Law

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
as Boss Han Bosatsu

Achilles and the Tortoise
as Sachiko

The Oil-Hell Murder
as Okichi

Heat Wave
as Rin Jyoshima

Time Never Stops
as Asako Saigo

Karaoke Terror
as Midori Suzuki

Letter from the Mountain
as Michiko Ueda

Ronin-gai
as Oshin

Memories of Tomorrow
as Emiko Saeki

Deaths in Tokimeki
as Hiromi Kozue

Ashura
as Bizan

Door To Door
as Kurasawa Mitsue

Shara
as Shouko

The Pearls of the Stone Man
as Ryoko Kobayashi

The Invitation from Cinema Orion
as Yoshie Miyoshi

Shimanto River

Tora-san, the Go-Between
as Wakana Egami

Hana

The Wangan Highway
as Fumiko Sugimoto
