Acting credits
41
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Kanako Higuchi
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 27Series: 14
TMDB ID: 70210
IMDb ID: nm0383679
Known for: Acting
Born: December 13, 1958
Age: 67
Place of birth: Kamo, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1980 - 2020
Years active: 41
Average TMDB rating: 6.27
Wikidata: Q3067350
Also known as
糸井可南子
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Kanako Higuchi.
8.3
The Pearls of the Stone Man
as Ryoko Kobayashi
2015 Movie
10.0
Time Never Stops
as Asako Saigo
2014 Movie
9.3
Door To Door
as Kurasawa Mitsue
2009 Movie
7.0
Achilles and the Tortoise
as Sachiko
2008 Movie
6.5
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
as Yoshie Miyoshi
2007 Movie
6.0
Memories of Tomorrow
as Emiko Saeki
2006 Movie
5.1
Ashura
as Bizan
2005 Movie
7.3
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
2004 Movie
5.9
Casshern
as Midori Azuma
2004 Movie
5.6
Karaoke Terror
as Midori Suzuki
2003 Movie
Hana
2003 Movie
6.4
Shara
as Shouko
2003 Movie
8.4
Letter from the Mountain
as Michiko Ueda
2002 Movie
5.8
The Oil-Hell Murder
as Okichi
1992 Movie
6.0
Shimanto River
1991 Movie
5.6
Heat Wave
as Rin Jyoshima
1991 Movie
5.9
Ronin-gai
as Oshin
1990 Movie
6.3
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
as Boss Han Bosatsu
1989 Movie
Love is Always Almond Pink
1988 Movie
3.6
Bedtime Eyes
1987 Movie
6.5
Tora-san, the Go-Between
as Wakana Egami
1985 Movie
The Wangan Highway
as Fumiko Sugimoto
1984 Movie
6.3
Deaths in Tokimeki
as Hiromi Kozue
1984 Movie
3.5
Modori River
1983 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Kanako Higuchi.
8.8
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
as Shimasu Yako • 1 eps
2020 Series
9.0
Ohisama
as Tokuko Maruyama
2011 Series
7.0
Detective Lovesick
as Tamae Aoki • 1 eps
2010 Series
8.0
A Little Princess
as Mimura Chieko • 10 eps
2009 Series
9.0
Atsuhime
50 eps
2008 Series
8.4
The Private Detective Mike
1 eps
2002 Series
Amakarashan
as 神沢（榊）ふみ • 150 eps
1997 Series
9.2
Masamune Shogun
as Kanako Higuchi • 50 eps
1987 Series
2.0
Romansu
as 小島はる • 156 eps
1984 Series
8.0
Sketchbook of Early Spring
12 eps
1983 Series
Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
1 eps
1983 Series
Toge no Gunzo
50 eps
1982 Series
雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯
1 eps
1982 Series
Nukata no Ōkimi
2 eps
1980 Series