Kanako Higuchi
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.
Known for
- Ohisama (2011)
- Atsuhime (2008)
- Amakarashan (1997)
- Masamune Shogun (1987)
- Romansu (1984)
- The Private Detective Mike (2002)
- Toge no Gunzo (1982)
- Detective Lovesick (2010)
- The Night of Martial Law (1980)
- A Little Princess (2009)
- Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku (2020)
- Casshern (2004)
- Modori River (1983)
- Bedtime Eyes (1987)
- Edo Porn (1981)
- Ronin-gai (1990)
- Sketchbook of Early Spring (1983)
- Ashura (2005)
- Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004)
- Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally (1989)