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.
Acted in 42
2020s
- 2020
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
Shimasu Yako · 1 episode
2010s
- 2015
The Pearls of the Stone Man
Ryoko Kobayashi
- 2014
Time Never Stops
Asako Saigo
- 2011
- 2010
2000s
- 2009
A Little Princess
Chieko Mimura · 10 episodes
Door To Door
Kurasawa Mitsue
- 2008
Achilles and the Tortoise
Sachiko
- 2007
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Yoshie Miyoshi
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003
Hana
Movie
Shara
Shouko
- 2002
Letter from the Mountain
Michiko Ueda
1990s
- 1997
- 1996
San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku
TV
- 1992
- 1991
Shimanto River
Movie
- 1990
1980s
- 1989
- 1988
Love is Always Almond Pink
Movie
- 1987
- 1985
- 1984
The Wangan Highway
Fumiko Sugimoto
Romansu
小島はる · 156 episodes
Deaths in Tokimeki
Hiromi Kozue
- 1983
Manji
Mitsuko Shido
Sketchbook of Early Spring
TV
Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
TV
- 1982
雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯
TV
- 1981
- 1980
The Night of Martial Law
Movie
Nukata no Ōkimi
TV
