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Yuriko Yoshitaka

Actor
Born July 22, 1988 (36 years)
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
  • Your Eyes Tell
  • Noriko's Dinner Table
  • Gantz: Perfect Answer
  • Gantz
  • A Story of Yonosuke
  • Snakes and Earrings
  • Adrift in Tokyo
  • Midsummer's Equation
  • Yurigokoro
  • Yûbae Shôjo
  • Dearest
  • Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler
  • We Were There: First Love
  • Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
  • Killing for the Prosecution
  • We Were There: True Love
  • I Will Not Work Overtime, Period!
  • Tokyo Tarareba Girls
  • Galileo
  • Robo-G
  • Love Shuffle
  • Cannonball Wedlock
  • A Pierrot
  • Ms. Justice

Filmography

2024
Dear Radiance (TV Series) · as Murasaki Shikibu | Mahiro
2023
On a Starry Night (TV Series) · as Yukimiya Suzu
2021
Dearest (TV Series) · as Rio Sanada
2020
Off the Record (2020) (TV Series) · as 真壁ケイト
2020
Your Eyes Tell · as Akari Kashiwagi
2020
Dangerous Venus (TV Series) · as Kaede Yagami
2019
I Will Not Work Overtime, Period! (TV Series) · as Yui Higashiyama
2018
2018
Ms. Justice (TV Series) · as Ririko Takemura
2017
Yurigokoro · as Misako
2017
Tokyo Tarareba Girls (TV Series) · as 鎌田倫子
2014
Hanako & Anne (TV Series)
2013
Midsummer's Equation · as Misa Kishitani
2013
Galileo XX · as Misa Kishitani
2012
A Story of Yonosuke · as Shōko Yosano
2012
We Were There: True Love · as Nanami Takahashi
2012
We Were There: First Love · as Nanami Takahashi
2012
Robo-G · as Sasaki Yoko
2011
2011
The Reason I Can't Find My Love (TV Series) · as Saki Ogura
2011
Vampire Prosecutor (TV Series) · as Runa
2011
The Detective Is in the Bar · as Megumi Kondo
2011
Himizu · as Miki
2011
Hanawake no Yon Shimai (TV Series) · as Cast
2011
Gantz: Perfect Answer · as Tae Kojima
2011
2010
Gantz · as Tae Kojima
2010
Camellia · as Kamome (segment "kamome")
2010
Mioka (TV Series) · as Minegishi Mioka
2010
2009
Tokyo DOGS (TV Series) · as Yuki Matsunaga
2009
2009
A Pierrot · as Natsuko
2009
White Spring (TV Series) · as Nishida Shiori
2009
Love Shuffle (TV Series) · as Hayakawa Kairi
2008
2008
Your Friend · as Hana
2008
Taiyo to Umi no Kyoshitsu (TV Series) · as Yashima Akari
2008
Cyborg She · as Student In 22nd Century
2008
Yûbae Shôjo · as (segment "itaria No Uta")
2008
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow (TV Series) · as Yoimachi Shinobu
2008
Atsuhime (TV Series)
2007
Adrift in Tokyo · as Fufumi
2007
Galileo (TV Series) · as Misa Kishitani
2007
2006
Children · as Miharu (young)
2006
Time Limit Investigator (TV Series) · as Mayumi Myougadani
2005
Noriko's Dinner Table · as Yuka / Yoko
2003

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