Kanako Higuchi

Kanako Higuchi

Born: December 13, 1958
in Kamo, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Her credits include film, television, and radio dramas, stage, commercials, and voice roles. She married Shigesato Itoi in 1993 and has a dog named Bouillon.

She has represented the cosmetics firms Kosé and Kao.

She won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 15th Hochi Film Awards for Rōningai.

Movies for Kanako Higuchi...

Title: Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
Character: Shimasu Yako
Released: January 11, 2020
Type: TV
A slice of life comedy where Furutachi Kanji and Takito Kenichi play poor brothers Ichiro and Jiro respectively. Older one (Ichiro) is very serious while the younger one (Jiro) is trying to start rental father/uncle service and they have to deal with issues from their clients.
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The Pearls of the Stone Man
Title: The Pearls of the Stone Man
Character: Ryoko Kobayashi
Released: June 20, 2015
Type: Movie
Atsushi and Ryoko are a married coupled. They decide they want to live around nature and move to Biei in Hokkaido, Japan. Atsushi isn't sure what to do with his free time, so Ryoko asks him build a stone wall around their house. Atsushi experiences tragedy, but later gets closer to his estranged daughter, Satoko. Atsushi continues building the stone wall.
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Time Never Stops
Title: Time Never Stops
Character: Asako Saigo
Released: February 22, 2014
Type: Movie
A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and a family that escaped the disaster. The film depicts the collapse and rebirth of two families whose children were supposed to marry each other. A moving drama written by Yamada Taichi and starring Nakai Kiichi, Kuroki Meisa and Kamiki Ryunosuke.
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Title: Ohisama
Character: Tokuko Maruyama
Released: April 4, 2011
Type: TV
Ohisama is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2011 in the Asadora time slot. Set in Nagano prefecture, "Ohisama" covers the life of Yoko Sudo (Mao Inoue) through World War II. Yoko Sudo with her smile is able to bring brightness to those around her & she follows her mother's motif to laugh through the hard times. During the onset of WW II, Yoko is a high school student and "Ohisama" follows her as she eventually becomes a teacher and then gets married and has a child. Yoko then opens a soba restaurant with her student. --asianwiki
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Title: Detective Lovesick
Character: Tamae Aoki
Released: July 9, 2010
Type: TV
He was the pride of his police department as the number one armed robbery buster... until he had his heart broken by the sudden flight of a fiancee from his life. Now "Detective Lovesick" finds his crime-fighting mojo and his chance at rising through the police hierarchy slipping away. Spending his days in a desperate search for the love of his life, Detective Lovesick is a man in love with himself and idolizes his drinking buddy, who is a romance psychologist. He loses himself to love easily, even at work, falling for every femme fatale he investigates and after a lot of hair pulling, ending each case with a marriage proposal. "Marry me or be under arrest." But will any woman accept such a proposal? Suspense, comedy and romance all converge in a libido-rich police drama unlike any you've ever seen.
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Title: A Little Princess
Character: Mimura Chieko
Released: October 17, 2009
Type: TV
Shōkōjo Seira is a 2009 Japanese drama television series based on the children's novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Mirai Shida stars as Seira, the daughter of a rich boss of a mining company. Due to her father's sudden death in a mining accident, Seira has overcomes many ordeals at the Millenius Seminary boarding school because she is unable to pay her school fees. Shōkōjo Seira aired on Saturdays from 7:56pm on the Tokyo Broadcasting System between 17 October 2009 and 19 December 2009.
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Door To Door
Title: Door To Door
Character: Kurasawa Mitsue
Released: May 29, 2009
Type: Movie
Based on a true story about about a man who was told for many years that he was not employable, but threw all of his effort into working as a door-to-door salesman. Despite the pain attributed to his cerebral palsy, he walked eight to ten miles a day to meet his customers and achieved the highest sales for his company.
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Achilles and the Tortoise
Title: Achilles and the Tortoise
Character: Sachiko
Released: September 20, 2008
Type: Movie
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.
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Title: Atsuhime
Released: January 6, 2008
Type: TV
The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. She accedes to the highest rank in Ooku, the inner palace of the Edo castle where women related to the reigning shogun resided. Iesada dies soon after their marriage and Atsuhime assumes the name Tenshoin at the age of 23. She exerts herself for the Tokugawa clan and for the nation during the upheaval in the Meiji Restoration, headed by those from Satsuma.
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The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Title: The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Character: Yoshie Miyoshi
Released: November 3, 2007
Type: Movie
Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's undying love for the cinema and each other.
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Memories of Tomorrow
Title: Memories of Tomorrow
Character: Emiko Saeki
Released: May 13, 2006
Type: Movie
After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.
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Ashura
Title: Ashura
Character: Bizan
Released: April 16, 2005
Type: Movie
Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, a kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki. However, something is not right, as mysterious marks appear on her body as time progresses. At the same time, it is announced that Ashura, the queen of all demons, will be resurrected and bring destruction to the universe.
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Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Title: Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Released: May 8, 2004
Type: Movie
While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.
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Casshern
Title: Casshern
Character: Midori Azuma
Released: April 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people have become prey to new diseases. Professor Azuma's "neo-cell" project, which is supposed to be the answer to mankind's hardships, becomes a nightmare come true when mutants spawned from the experiment escape and declare war on the human race. Azuma's son Tetsuya, who was killed during the previous war, is reborn into the cyborg Casshern as mankind's last hope against the new mutant threat. This live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name.
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Karaoke Terror
Title: Karaoke Terror
Character: Midori Suzuki
Released: November 8, 2003
Type: Movie
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer and it escalates!
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Shara
Title: Shara
Character: Shouko
Released: July 12, 2003
Type: Movie
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with his childhood friend, Yu.
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Letter from the Mountain
Title: Letter from the Mountain
Character: Michiko Ueda
Released: October 5, 2002
Type: Movie
Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.
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Title: The Private Detective Mike
Released: July 1, 2002
Type: TV
Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for his kid sister Akane. Mike's so down on his luck he'll take any case, from finding a lost pet to spying on cheating spouses. But every now and then, along comes a client with dubious and dangerous case… and that's when Mike shows his stuff.
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Title: Saigo no Kazoku
Released: October 18, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Amakarashan
Character: 神沢(榊)ふみ
Released: October 6, 1997
Type: TV
The 57th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama. Story's settings include Kobe and Sasayama. It is a story about the conflicts between generations and the relationships within families. A strong mother-daughter theme and a sister-brother theme exist.
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The Oil-Hell Murder
Title: The Oil-Hell Murder
Character: Okichi
Released: May 23, 1992
Type: Movie
The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.
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Shimanto River
Title: Shimanto River
Released: December 7, 1991
Type: Movie
A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He comes to grips with the unfairness of life and the emotional pain involved in the loss of innocence. The film is based on an autobiographical novel written by Kyuzo Sasayama.
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Heat Wave
Title: Heat Wave
Character: Rin Jyoshima
Released: February 9, 1991
Type: Movie
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
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Ronin-gai
Title: Ronin-gai
Character: Oshin
Released: August 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a brothel from a hostile militia bent on wiping out local prostitutes.
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Title: Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Character: Boss Han Bosatsu
Released: February 4, 1989
Type: Movie
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
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Love is Always Almond Pink
Title: Love is Always Almond Pink
Released: February 11, 1988
Type: Movie
Based on the comic book series by Tamiko Akaboshi.
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Bedtime Eyes
Title: Bedtime Eyes
Released: April 25, 1987
Type: Movie
Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate Japanese jazz singer and a black American GI on the margins of the law.
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Title: Masamune Shogun
Character: Kanako Higuchi
Released: January 4, 1987
Type: TV
Broadcast TV drama NHK broadcast on January 4 to December 13, 1987 (Showa 62). In the questionnaire survey conducted by NHK, it is shining in the most favorite river drama. The original is Yamaka Sosaichi's novel "Date Masamune", the biggest drama on the theme of the Date house was the first time in 17 years since the "Shinnogi remained" (1970), which painted Datejo in the Edo period. It depicts the life of Matsudo Date of Sengoku warrior · Date Masamune who built the foundation of Sendai clan 620,000 stones in his generation as a result of my own wisdom and talent.
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
Title: Tora-san, the Go-Between
Character: Wakana Egami
Released: August 3, 1985
Type: Movie
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san falls in love with the old woman's daughter, but winds up acting as a go-between for her and a young law student.
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The Wangan Highway
Title: The Wangan Highway
Character: Fumiko Sugimoto
Released: September 29, 1984
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.
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Title: Romansu
Character: 小島はる
Released: April 2, 1984
Type: TV
The 32nd NHK Asadora. Starring Takaaki Enoki as a young man who becomes a film director. The first Asadora with a male lead since 1967.
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Deaths in Tokimeki
Title: Deaths in Tokimeki
Character: Hiromi Kozue
Released: February 18, 1984
Type: Movie
Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of a religious cult.
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Modori-gawa
Title: Modori-gawa
Released: April 16, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave themselves over to his ambitions.
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Manji
Title: Manji
Character: Mitsuko Shido
Released: March 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Kleptomaniac Sonoko and young, beautiful Mitsuko begin an unusual love affair which develops fast into a kinky sexual love triangle when Sonoko’s husband gets involved.
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Title: Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
Released: January 2, 1983
Type: TV
The tumultuous life of the fallen Isoroku Yamamoto is depicted, along with his family, friends, and subordinates, his bonds with the women who loved and watched over him, and the sorrows of the nameless people who have disappeared in the torrent of history.
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Title: Toge no Gunzo
Released: January 10, 1982
Type: TV
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Edo Porn
Title: Edo Porn
Character: Onao
Released: September 12, 1981
Type: Movie
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
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The Night of Martial Law
Title: The Night of Martial Law
Released: July 5, 1980
Type: Movie