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.
Modori River
1983
The Night of Martial Law
1980
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
1989
Bedtime Eyes
1987
Edo Porn
1981
Karaoke Terror
2003
The Oil-Hell Murder
1992
Shara
2003
Ashura
2005
Deaths in Tokimeki
1984
Heat Wave
1991
Manji
1983
Casshern
2004
Tora-san, the Go-Between
1985
Memories of Tomorrow
2006
Ronin-gai
1990
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
2004
Achilles and the Tortoise
2008
Shimanto River
1991
Hana
2003
Letter from the Mountain
2002
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
2007
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015
The Wangan Highway
1984
Love is Always Almond Pink
1988
Door To Door
2009
Time Never Stops
2014