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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
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 | Killing for the Prosecution · as 橘沙穂 |
| 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 | Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler · as Yumi |
| 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 | Cannonball Wedlock · as Chie |
| 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 | Snakes and Earrings · as Lui |
| 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 | Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game (TV Series) · as Guest |