Kanako Higuchi
Birthday: 1958-12-13
Place of Birth: Kamo, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
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
Casshern
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have ta...
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Achilles and the Tortoise
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he a...
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life...
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Shara
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disap...
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Ashura
Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between de...
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Edo Porn
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives w...
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Letter from the Mountain
Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural f...
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Ronin-gai
Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attem...
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Heat Wave
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi househo...
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Memories of Tomorrow
After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessm...
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The Oil-Hell Murder
The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of...
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The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation f...
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Manji
Kleptomaniac Sonoko and young, beautiful Mitsuko begin an unusual love affair which develops fast in...
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Time Never Stops
A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and...
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The Pearls of the Stone Man
Atsushi and Ryoko are a married coupled. They decide they want to live around nature and move to Bi...
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She ...
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Hana
Yoichiro Nozaki, a high-achieving office worker, collapses from an aneurysm. The doctor advises imme...
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Door To Door
Based on a true story about about a man who was told for many years that he was not employable, but ...
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Deaths in Tokimeki
Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to ca...
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Bedtime Eyes
Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between ...
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Modori River
The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women...
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Shimanto River
A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He come...
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Karaoke Terror
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him ...
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Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep with...
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