Yuriko Yoshitaka
Born: 1988-07-22 in Tokyo, Japan
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2024
- Dear Radiance as Murasaki Shikibu | Mahiro
- 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]
2023
- On a Starry Night as Yukimiya Suzu
- M&Oplaysプロデュース「クランク・イン！」 as ジュン
2022
- The Wind, The Storm as 伊藤野枝
2021
- Dearest as Rio Sanada
2020
- Your Eyes Tell as Akari Kashiwagi
- Off the Record as Keito Makabe
- Dangerous Venus as Kaede Yagami
- Tokyo Tarareba Musume 2020 Special as Rinko Kamata (鎌田倫子)
2019
- I Will Not Work Overtime, Period! as Yui Higashiyama
2018
- Killing for the Prosecution as Saho Tachibana
- Ms. Justice as Ririko Takemura
2017
- Yurigokoro as Misako
- Tokyo Tarareba Girls as 鎌田倫子
2014
- Hanako & Anne as Ando Hana / Muraoka Hana
2013
- Galileo XX as Misa Kishitani
- A Story of Yonosuke as Shōko Yosano
- Midsummer's Equation as Misa Kishitani
2012
- We Were There: True Love as Nanami Takahashi
- We Were There: First Love as Nanami Takahashi
- Robo-G as Sasaki Yoko
2011
- Gantz: Perfect Answer as Tae Kojima
- Cannonball Wedlock as Chie
- Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler as Yumi Ishida
- Himizu as Miki
- Phone Call to the Bar as Megumi Kondo
- Vampire Prosecutor as Runa
- The Reason I Can't Find My Love as Saki Ogura
2010
- Gantz as Tae Kojima
- Camellia as Kamome (segment "Kamome")
- All to the Sea
- MIOKA –MY LAST DAYS WITH YOU– as Minegishi Mioka
- Tofu Sisters as Yoshitaka Kinuyo / Momen (voice) / Yuriko
2009
- Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler as Yasuda, Ishida Hiromi
- Gravity's Clowns as Natsuko
- Tokyo Dogs as Yuki Matsunaga
- Love Shuffle as Hayakawa Kairi
- White Spring as Nishida Shiori
2008
- Cyborg She as Student in 22nd Century
- Snakes and Earrings as Lui
- Your Friend as Hana
- The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table as Herself
- Atsuhime
- A Girl in the Sunset as (segment "Itaria no Uta")
- Homeroom on the Beachside as Akara Yashima
- Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow as Yoimachi Shinobu
- Tonsure as Mika Kashiwaba
- Let's play with KONNO-SAN! as Konno Miyuki
2007
- Galileo as Misa Kishitani
- Adrift in Tokyo as Fufumi
- Tokyo Rhapsody
2006
- CHiLDREN as Miharu (young)
- Time Limit Investigator as Mayumi Myougadani
2005
- Noriko's Dinner Table as Yuka / Yoko
2003
1951
- NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen as Self - Red Team Host