Kanako Higuchi

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Kanako Higuchi

Acting 67 December 13, 1958

Kamo, Niigata, 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…

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Casshern

Casshern

5.9 2004 Movie
Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise

7.0 2008 Movie
Amakarashan

Amakarashan

1997 TV Show
Masamune Shogun

Masamune Shogun

9.0 1987 TV Show
Ohisama

Ohisama

9.0 2011 TV Show
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World

7.2 2004 Movie
Atsuhime

Atsuhime

9.0 2008 TV Show
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

6.5 1989 Movie
Edo Porn

Edo Porn

5.9 1981 Movie
Shara

Shara

6.3 2003 Movie
Toge no Gunzo

Toge no Gunzo

1982 TV Show
Detective Lovesick

Detective Lovesick

7.2 2010 TV Show

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2020
    Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku

    TV show Shimasu Yako

  2. 2015
    The Pearls of the Stone Man

    Movie Ryoko Kobayashi

  3. 2014
    Time Never Stops

    Movie Asako Saigo

  4. 2011
    Ohisama

    TV show Tokuko Maruyama

  5. 2010
    Detective Lovesick

    TV show Tamae Aoki

  6. 2009
    A Little Princess

    TV show Mimura Chieko

  7. 2009
    Door To Door

    Movie Kurasawa Mitsue

  8. 2008
    Achilles and the Tortoise

    Movie Sachiko

  9. 2008
    Atsuhime

    TV show

  10. 2007
    The Invitation from Cinema Orion

    Movie Yoshie Miyoshi

  11. 2006
    Memories of Tomorrow

    Movie Emiko Saeki

  12. 2005
    Ashura

    Movie Bizan

  13. 2004
    Crying Out Love in the Center of the World

    Movie

  14. 2004
    Casshern

    Movie Midori Azuma

  15. 2003
    Karaoke Terror

    Movie Midori Suzuki

  16. 2003
    Hana

    Movie

More credits
  1. 2003
    Shara

    Movie Shouko

  2. 2002
    Letter from the Mountain

    Movie Michiko Ueda

  3. 2002
    The Private Detective Mike

    TV show

  4. 2001
    Saigo no Kazoku

    TV show

  5. 1997
    Amakarashan

    TV show 神沢（榊）ふみ

  6. 1992
    The Oil-Hell Murder

    Movie Okichi

  7. 1991
    Shimanto River

    Movie

  8. 1991
    Heat Wave

    Movie Rin Jyoshima

  9. 1990
    Ronin-gai

    Movie Oshin

  10. 1989
    Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

    Movie Boss Han Bosatsu

  11. 1988
    Love is Always Almond Pink

    Movie

  12. 1987
    Bedtime Eyes

    Movie

  13. 1987
    Masamune Shogun

    TV show Kanako Higuchi

  14. 1985
    Tora-san, the Go-Between

    Movie 江上若菜

  15. 1984
    The Wangan Highway

    Movie Fumiko Sugimoto

  16. 1984
    Romansu

    TV show 小島はる

  17. 1984
    Deaths in Tokimeki

    Movie Hiromi Kozue

  18. 1983
    Modori River

    Movie Kotoe

  19. 1983
    Manji

    Movie Mitsuko Shido

  20. 1983
    Sketchbook of Early Spring

    TV show

  21. 1983
    Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun

    TV show

  22. 1982
    Toge no Gunzo

    TV show

  23. 1982
    雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯

    TV show

  24. 1981
    Edo Porn

    Movie Onao