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.
Casshern
(Midori Azuma)
Achilles and the Tortoise
(Sachiko)
The Night of Martial Law
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
(Boss Han Bosatsu)
Shara
(Shouko)
Ashura
(Bizan)
Edo Porn
(Onao)
Letter from the Mountain
(Michiko Ueda)
Ronin-gai
(Oshin)
Heat Wave
(Rin Jyoshima)
Memories of Tomorrow
(Emiko Saeki)
The Oil-Hell Murder
(Okichi)
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
(Yoshie Miyoshi)
Manji
(Mitsuko Shido)
Time Never Stops
(Asako Saigo)
The Pearls of the Stone Man
(Ryoko Kobayashi)
Tora-san, the Go-Between
(Wakana Egami)
Hana
Door To Door
(Kurasawa Mitsue)
Deaths in Tokimeki
(Hiromi Kozue)
Love is Always Almond Pink
The Wangan Highway
(Fumiko Sugimoto)
Bedtime Eyes
Modori River
Shimanto River
Karaoke Terror
(Midori Suzuki)
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Toge no Gunzo
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
(Shimasu Yako)
Saigo no Kazoku
The Private Detective Mike
Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
Detective Lovesick
(Tamae Aoki)
Masamune Shogun
(Kanako Higuchi)
Ohisama
(Tokuko Maruyama)
Amakarashan
(神沢(榊)ふみ)
Romansu
(小島はる)
A Little Princess
(Mimura Chieko)
Atsuhime
Nukata no Ōkimi
雪の華-建礼門院徳子の生涯
Sketchbook of Early Spring