Kanako Higuchi

Actress

Born: December 13, 1958 (67 years old)

Place of birth: Kamo, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

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 (20)

• Letter from the Mountain (2002, ★ 8.4)
• The Pearls of the Stone Man (2015, ★ 8.3)
• The Private Detective Mike (2002, ★ 8.4)
• Masamune Shogun (1987, ★ 9.2)
• Atsuhime (2008, ★ 9)
• Achilles and the Tortoise (2008, ★ 7)
• Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004, ★ 7.3)
• Detective Lovesick (2010, ★ 7.2)
• Casshern (2004, ★ 5.9)
• Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally (1989, ★ 6.3)
• Shara (2003, ★ 6.4)
• Ashura (2005, ★ 5.1)
• Edo Porn (1981, ★ 5.9)
• Ronin-gai (1990, ★ 5.9)
• Heat Wave (1991, ★ 5.6)
• Memories of Tomorrow (2006, ★ 6)
• The Oil-Hell Murder (1992, ★ 5.8)
• Manji (1983, ★ 4.8)
• Karaoke Terror (2003, ★ 5.7)
• Bedtime Eyes (1987, ★ 3.6)