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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 13, 1958
Place of Birth
Kamo, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Also Known As
- 糸井可南子
Kanako Higuchi
0.8 Popularity
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.
Known For
8.8
Shimasu Yako
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
2020
8.3
Ryoko Kobayashi
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
10.0
Asako Saigo
Time Never Stops
2014
9.0
Tokuko Maruyama
Ohisama
2011
7.0
Tamae Aoki
Detective Lovesick
2010
8.0
Mimura Chieko
A Little Princess
2009
9.3
Kurasawa Mitsue
Door To Door
2009
7.0
Sachiko
Achilles and the Tortoise
2008
9.0
Atsuhime
2008
6.5
Yoshie Miyoshi
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
2007
Credits
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
as Shimasu Yako
2020
8.8
The Pearls of the Stone Man
as Ryoko Kobayashi
2015
8.3
Time Never Stops
as Asako Saigo
2014
10.0
Ohisama
as Tokuko Maruyama
2011
9.0
Detective Lovesick
as Tamae Aoki
2010
7.0
A Little Princess
as Mimura Chieko
2009
8.0
Door To Door
as Kurasawa Mitsue
2009
9.3
Achilles and the Tortoise
as Sachiko
2008
7.0
Atsuhime
2008
9.0
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
as Yoshie Miyoshi
2007
6.5
Memories of Tomorrow
as Emiko Saeki
2006
6.0
Ashura
as Bizan
2005
5.1
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
2004
7.3
Casshern
as Midori Azuma
2004
5.9
Karaoke Terror
as Midori Suzuki
2003
5.6
Hana
2003
0.0
Shara
as Shouko
2003
6.3
Letter from the Mountain
as Michiko Ueda
2002
8.4
The Private Detective Mike
2002
8.4
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Saigo no Kazoku
2001
0.0
Amakarashan
as 神沢（榊）ふみ
1997
0.0
The Oil-Hell Murder
as Okichi
1992
5.7
Shimanto River
1991
6.0
Heat Wave
as Rin Jyoshima
1991
5.6
Ronin-gai
as Oshin
1990
5.9
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
as Boss Han Bosatsu
1989
6.3
Love is Always Almond Pink
1988
0.0
Bedtime Eyes
1987
3.6
Masamune Shogun
as Kanako Higuchi
1987
9.2
Tora-san, the Go-Between
as Wakana Egami
1985
6.5
The Wangan Highway
as Fumiko Sugimoto
1984
0.0
Romansu
as 小島はる
1984
2.0
Deaths in Tokimeki
as Hiromi Kozue
1984
6.3
Modori River
1983
4.0
Manji
as Mitsuko Shido
1983
4.8
Sketchbook of Early Spring
1983
8.0
Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
1983
0.0
Toge no Gunzo
1982
0.0
雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯
1982
0.0
Edo Porn
as Onao
1981
5.9
The Night of Martial Law
1980
0.0
Nukata no Ōkimi
1980
0.0