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Kanako Higuchi is a Actor Japonaise born on 13 december 1958 at Kamo (Japon)

Kanako Higuchi

Kanako Higuchi
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Nationality Japon
Birth 13 december 1958 (65 years) at Kamo (Japon)

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. She married Shigesato Itoi in 1993 and has a dog named Bouillon.

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.

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

Biography

Elle est mariée à Shigesato Itoi, célèbre auteur japonais qui a également travaillé comme scénariste pour certains studios de jeux vidéo, et qui est l'auteur de la série Mother (EarthBound).

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Filmography of Kanako Higuchi (11 films)

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Actress

Achilles and the Tortoise, 1h59
Directed by Takeshi Kitano
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Peinture, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Takeshi Kitano, Kanako Higuchi, Ren Osugi, Kumiko Asō, Akira Nakao, Nao Ōmori
Roles Sachiko
Rating72% 3.6438853.6438853.6438853.6438853.643885
Kitano plays Machisu, who is born into a wealthy family, but loses both his parents as a child. When his father (Akira Nakao) commits suicide after the collapse of his business, Machisu's stepmother (Mariko Tsutsui) sends him to live with an aunt and uncle who mistreat him and finally send him to an orphanage. As a young man, Machisu (Yurei Yanagi) attends art school and finds his style of painting challenged by the more experimental and conceptual work turned in by his classmates. Machisu takes a job in order to pay for art school, and strikes up a friendship with a fellow co-worker, Sachiko (Kumiko Aso), who seems to grasp his artistic vision. They get married and have a daughter. As he grows older, Mashisu's obsession with contemporary art controls his whole life, leaving him insensitive of everything around him, including the death of his own daughter (Eri Tokunaga) and his wife's desertion. He tries to please the art critics, remaining penniless. He is caught up in a fire and almost dies. Losing all his previous works, he is left with a single half-burnt soda can, which he assesses at 200,000 yen and tries to sell. This ends up kicked carelessly away when his wife picks him up from the street. They walk away together, seemingly finally rid of his artistic obsession.
Memories of Tomorrow
Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Genres Drama
Actors Ken Watanabe, Kanako Higuchi, Kazue Fukiishi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Hideji Ōtaki, Asami Mizukawa
Roles Emiko Saeki
Rating74% 3.729833.729833.729833.729833.72983
The film begins by showing the inevitable outcome of the events of the film: the viewer is shown a scene of a man who is disabled by Alzheimer's Disease, set in the year 2010. The story proper then begins by switching back to an earlier stage in the life of the man, Masayuki Saeki in 2004. Masayuki Saeki is a brilliant and successful advertising company executive. Saeki is shown to be a prime example of an ideal Japanese white collar worker. He is strict, well organized, hard working, devoted to his job, and sets very high standards for himself and his subordinates. However he is soon shocked to realize that he is failing to meet up to his perfect standards. He starts inexplicably forgetting things - appointments, details of his work, and his knowledge of the layout of Tokyo. Following this he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, to which he reacts with great anger, disbelief and despair. What follows through the rest of the film is a tragic, emotional and very human portrayal of the suffering and the decline of this once powerful, soaring man to that of a pitiful state that resembles a second childhood as the disease wears him down. As the years pass, his memory worsens. He leaves work, and lives at home, where he is cared for by his devoted wife, Emiko. Inevitably, tensions surface between Masayuki and his wife and daughter, and it reaches the point where Emiko's life revolves around taking care of her debilitated husband.
Ashura
Ashura (2005)
, 1h59
Directed by Yōjirō Takita
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films
Actors Rie Miyazawa, Kanako Higuchi, Erika Sawajiri, Fumiyo Kohinata, Takashi Naitō, Yukijirō Hotaru
Roles Bizan
Rating57% 2.89822.89822.89822.89822.8982
Dans le Japon de l'ère Edo, alors que la lutte entre démons et samouraïs fait rage, on annonce la résurrection de la toute-puissante Ashura, Reine de tous les démons. Au même moment, Izumo, un ancien chasseur de démons reconverti dans le théâtre, fait la connaissance d'une mystérieuse jeune femme dont il tombe rapidement amoureux. Mais sa rencontre avec celle-ci, qui semble être étrangement liée à la maléfique Ashura, le confronte violemment à son passé. Son amour pour la jeune femme mènera Izumo vers un ultime combat.
Casshern
Casshern (2004)
, 2h20
Directed by Kazuaki Kiriya
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action, Horror
Themes Monde imaginaire, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Yūsuke Iseya, Kumiko Asō, Jun Kaname, Akira Terao, Susumu Terajima, Kanako Higuchi
Roles Midori Azuma
Rating59% 2.9990452.9990452.9990452.9990452.999045
A fifty-year war between the Eastern Federation and Europa ends, with the Federation taking control of the Eurasian continent. A resistance movement rises in Zone 7 and the Federation mobilizes its military. However, the war and heavy industry have exhausted the Federation and polluted the environment.
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World, 2h18
Directed by Isao Yukisada
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Takao Ōsawa, Mirai Moriyama, Kō Shibasaki, Masami Nagasawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Maki Horikita
Rating71% 3.5975953.5975953.5975953.5975953.597595
In a neglected box in her Tokyo apartment, Ritsuko finds a teenage girl's audio diary on an old cassette. Her fiancee Saku spots her in a television report at Takamatsu Airport about an approaching typhoon; he realizes she has gone to their hometown in Shikoku and goes after her. At his family home, he discovers a box of audio cassettes. He listens to them while retracting his steps from his school life.
Shara
Shara (2003)
, 1h40
Directed by Naomi Kawase
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Jumeaux ou jumelles
Actors Naomi Kawase, Katsuhisa Namase, Kanako Higuchi
Roles Shouko
Rating71% 3.590423.590423.590423.590423.59042
Dans la ville de Nara au Japon, le jour de la fête du Bodhisattva Jizo, des jumeaux, Kei et Shun, courent dans les ruelles lorsque, soudain, l'un d'eux disparaît mystérieusement.
Ronin-gai
Ronin-gai (1990)
, 1h57
Directed by Kazuo Kuroki
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Action, Historical
Actors Kanako Higuchi, Shintarō Katsu, Yoshio Harada, Hideyo Amamoto, Renji Ishibashi, Hiroyuki Nagato
Roles Oshin
Rating65% 3.2885653.2885653.2885653.2885653.288565
À quelques enjambées d'Edo, dans une petite bourgade, une taverne tenue par un certain Tahei sert de repère aux prostituées, rōnin, marchands et à quelques paumés... Goemon, le sympathique protecteur de ces dames vit une vie paisible, entre alcool et petits duels. À ses côtés, Oshin, autoproclamée et reconnue comme étant la plus belle et la plus expérimentée des prostituées. Gonbei, un rōnin solitaire secrètement amoureux d'Oshin. Magozoemon, ex-samurai du Shogun, tente une reconversion dans la vente d'oiseaux avec sa jeune sœur Obun. Gennai, un rōnin fêtard et impétueux fait irruption dans leur vie... Une prostituée est retrouvée sauvagement assassinée... suit alors une vague de meurtres visant essentiellement ces femmes des rues. Tahei, témoin de l'un des crimes, est supprimé à son tour.
Tora-san, the Go-Between, 1h48
Directed by Yōji Yamada
Genres Comedy
Actors Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishō, Mitsuru Hirata, Masami Shimojō, Chishū Ryū, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Roles Wakana Egami
Rating66% 3.309483.309483.309483.309483.30948
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.
Edo Porn
Edo Porn (1981)
, 1h59
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Documentary, Historical
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Ken Ogata, Nobuko Otowa, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yūko Tanaka, Kanako Higuchi, Frankie Sakai
Roles Onao
Rating64% 3.229243.229243.229243.229243.22924
Tetsuzō (Ken Ogata) is an unsuccessful ukiyo-e painter who lives with his young daughter Ōei (Yūko Tanaka) in poverty over a geta shop owned by Ōyaku (Nobuko Otowa), the older wife of the aspirant writer Sashichi (Toshiyuki Nishida) who is a childhood friend of Tetsuzō.