Yuriko Yoshitaka
- Acting
- July 22, 1988 · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Biography
Yuriko Yoshitaka is a Japanese actress who is represented by the Japanese agency Amuse. Yoshitaka made her acting debut in 2006. She was given the lead role in the live-action adaptation of Hitomi Kanehara's award-winning novel "Snakes and Earrings" in 2007. Portraying Lui, a teenager whose life goes into a downward spiral after meeting the forked-tongued and tattooed Ama, the role was Yoshitaka's breakthrough role. The Japanese public began to take notice of her, and in a poll conducted by Oricon, Yoshitaka was the fifth promising young actress of 2009 and 2009's freshest female celebrity. In 2010, Oricon again conducted a poll on the most promising actress and she managed climb up to top the poll. Yoshitaka began to receive more work in 2008 as she appeared in Flow's music video "Arigatō" (ありがとう, "Thanks"), was given her first lead role in the comedy drama Konno-san to Asobo (紺野さんと遊ぼう, Let’s Play with Konno-san) and took up the lead role in the film Yubae Shōjo (夕映え少女, A Girl in the Sunset) before the theatrical release of her other lead film Snakes and Earrings. In 2009, Yoshitaka was given the role of the suicidal Kairi Hayakawa in the romantic-comedy drama Love Shuffle. Later in the year, she portrayed Yūki Matsunaga (松永 由岐, Matsunaga Yūki) in the police drama "Tokyo Dogs" with Shun Oguri and Hiro Mizushima as her co-stars.
Known for
Filmography
- The Samurai and the Prisoner · Chiyoho
- シャイニングな女たち
- 吉高由里子 プリンスエドワード島の旅
- STAR CHIP GOLF · Self
- Kazeyo Arashi yo Gekijo Ban · Ito Noe
- まひろと彰子 物語が生まれる地へ ～「光る君へ」トークショー[字]
- 午後LIVE ニュースーン
- 風よ あらしよ 劇場版
- Dear Radiance · Murasaki Shikibu | Mahiro
- M&Oplaysプロデュース「クランク・イン！」 · ジュン
- On a Starry Night · Yukimiya Suzu
- The Wind, The Storm · 伊藤野枝
- Dearest · Rio Sanada
- Your Eyes Tell · Akari Kashiwagi
- Dangerous Venus · Kaede Yagami
- Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2020 Special · Rinko Kamata (鎌田倫子)
- Off the Record · Keito Makabe
- I Will Not Work Overtime, Period! · Yui Higashiyama
- Killing for the Prosecution · Saho Tachibana
- Ms. Justice · Ririko Takemura
- Yurigokoro · Misako
- Tokyo Tarareba Girls · 鎌田倫子
- Hanako & Anne · Ando Hana / Muraoka Hana
- Midsummer's Equation · Misa Kishitani
- Galileo XX · Misa Kishitani
- A Story of Yonosuke · Shōko Yosano
- Making of Himizu · Self
- We Were There: True Love · Nanami Takahashi
- We Were There: First Love · Nanami Takahashi
- Robo-G · Sasaki Yoko
- Himizu · Miki
- Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler · Hiromi Ishida
- The Reason I Can't Find My Love · Saki Ogura
- Vampire Prosecutor · Runa
- Phone Call to the Bar · Megumi Kondo
- Gantz: Perfect Answer · Tae Kojima
- Cannonball Wedlock · Chie
- Gantz · Tae Kojima
- Camellia · Kamome (segment "Kamome")
- Tofu Sisters · Yoshitaka Kinuyo / Momen (voice) / Yuriko
- MIOKA –MY LAST DAYS WITH YOU– · Minegishi Mioka
- All to the Sea
- Tokyo Dogs · Yuki Matsunaga
- Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler · Hiromi Ishida
- Gravity's Clowns · Natsuko
- White Spring · Nishida Shiori
- Love Shuffle · Hayakawa Kairi
- Tonsure · Mika Kashiwaba
- Snakes and Earrings · Lui
- Your Friend · Hana
- Homeroom on the Beachside · Akara Yashima
- Cyborg She · Student in 22nd Century
- The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table · Self
- Let's play with KONNO-SAN! · Miyuki Konno
- A Girl in the Sunset · (segment "Itaria no Uta")
- Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow · Yoimachi Shinobu
- Atsuhime
- Adrift in Tokyo · Fufumi
- Galileo · Misa Kishitani
- Tokyo Rhapsody
- CHiLDREN · Miharu (young)
- Time Limit Investigator · Mayumi Myougadani
- Noriko's Dinner Table · Yuka / Yoko
- Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game · Guest
- NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen · Self