Yuriko Yoshitaka
Acting
1988-07-22 · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
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
The Samurai and the Prisoner
2026 · Movie
シャイニングな女たち
2025 · Movie
吉高由里子 プリンスエドワード島の旅
2025 · Series
STAR CHIP GOLF
2025 · Series
Kazeyo Arashi yo Gekijo Ban
2024 · Movie
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]
2024 · Series
午後LIVE ニュースーン
2024 · Series
風よ あらしよ 劇場版
2024 · Movie
Dear Radiance
2024 · Series
M&Oplaysプロデュース「クランク・イン！」
2023 · Series
On a Starry Night
2023 · Series
The Wind, The Storm
2022 · Series
Dearest
2021 · Series
Your Eyes Tell
2020 · Movie
Dangerous Venus
2020 · Series
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2020 Special
2020 · Series
Off the Record
2020 · Series
I Will Not Work Overtime, Period!
2019 · Series
Killing for the Prosecution
2018 · Movie
Ms. Justice
2018 · Series
Yurigokoro
2017 · Movie
Tokyo Tarareba Girls
2017 · Series
Hanako & Anne
2014 · Series
Midsummer's Equation
2013 · Movie
Galileo XX
2013 · Movie
A Story of Yonosuke
2013 · Movie
Making of Himizu
2012 · Movie
We Were There: True Love
2012 · Movie
We Were There: First Love
2012 · Movie
Himizu
2012 · Movie
Robo-G
2012 · Movie
Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler
2011 · Movie
The Reason I Can't Find My Love
2011 · Series
Vampire Prosecutor
2011 · Series
Phone Call to the Bar
2011 · Movie
Gantz: Perfect Answer
2011 · Movie
Cannonball Wedlock
2011 · Movie
Gantz
2010 · Movie
Camellia
2010 · Movie
Tofu Sisters
2010 · Series
MIOKA –MY LAST DAYS WITH YOU–
2010 · Series
All to the Sea
2010 · Movie
Tokyo Dogs
2009 · Series
Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
2009 · Movie
Gravity's Clowns
2009 · Movie
White Spring
2009 · Series
Love Shuffle
2009 · Series
Tonsure
2008 · Series
Snakes and Earrings
2008 · Movie
Your Friend
2008 · Movie
Homeroom on the Beachside
2008 · Series
Cyborg She
2008 · Movie
The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table
2008 · Movie
Let's play with KONNO-SAN!
2008 · Series
A Girl in the Sunset
2008 · Movie
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
2008 · Series
Atsuhime
2008 · Series
Adrift in Tokyo
2007 · Movie
Galileo
2007 · Series
Tokyo Rhapsody
2007 · Movie
CHiLDREN
2006 · Movie
Time Limit Investigator
2006 · Series
Noriko's Dinner Table
2005 · Movie
Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game
2003 · Series
NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen
1951 · Series