
Actor
Kanako Higuchi
Born 1958 · 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.
Acting

Achilles and the Tortoise
Sachiko · 2008

Casshern
Midori Azuma · 2004

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Boss Han Bosatsu · 1989

Shara
Shouko · 2003

Masamune Shogun
Kanako Higuchi · 1987

Letter from the Mountain
Michiko Ueda · 2002

Time Never Stops
Asako Saigo · 2014

Door To Door
Kurasawa Mitsue · 2009

The Pearls of the Stone Man
Ryoko Kobayashi · 2015

Edo Porn
Onao · 1981

Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
Shimasu Yako · 2020

Ohisama
Tokuko Maruyama · 2011

Detective Lovesick
Tamae Aoki · 2010

A Little Princess
Mimura Chieko · 2009

Memories of Tomorrow
Emiko Saeki · 2006

Ronin-gai
Oshin · 1990

The Wangan Highway
Fumiko Sugimoto · 1984

The Oil-Hell Murder
Okichi · 1992

Heat Wave
Rin Jyoshima · 1991

Karaoke Terror
Midori Suzuki · 2003

Deaths in Tokimeki
Hiromi Kozue · 1984

Ashura
Bizan · 2005

Tora-san, the Go-Between
Wakana Egami · 1985

Manji
Mitsuko Shido · 1983