Actor
Kanako Higuchi
Born December 13, 1958 in Kamo, Niigata, Japan27 films
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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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.
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First watchCrying Out Love in the Center of the World20047.2While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.View filmEssential films
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Filmography
27 films as actor- 2015The Pearls of the Stone ManRyoko Kobayashi
- 2014Time Never StopsAsako Saigo
- 2009Door To DoorKurasawa Mitsue
- 2008Achilles and the TortoiseSachiko
- 2007The Invitation from Cinema OrionYoshie Miyoshi
- 2006Memories of TomorrowEmiko Saeki
- 2005AshuraBizan
- 2004Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
- 2004CasshernMidori Azuma
- 2003Karaoke TerrorMidori Suzuki
- 2003Hana
- 2003SharaShouko
- 2002Letter from the MountainMichiko Ueda
- 1992The Oil-Hell MurderOkichi
- 1991Shimanto River
- 1991Heat WaveRin Jyoshima
- 1990Ronin-gaiOshin
- 1989Zatoichi: Darkness Is His AllyBoss Han Bosatsu
- 1988Love is Always Almond Pink
- 1987Bedtime Eyes
- 1985Tora-san, the Go-Between江上若菜
- 1984The Wangan HighwayFumiko Sugimoto
- 1984Deaths in TokimekiHiromi Kozue
- 1983Modori RiverKotoe
- 1983ManjiMitsuko Shido
- 1981Edo PornOnao
- 1980The Night of Martial Law