Yuriko Yoshitaka
Known For
Acting
Born
1988-07-22 in 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.
Most Known For
Galileo
as Misa Kishitani
Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game
as Guest
Hanako & Anne
as Ando Hana / Muraoka Hana
Dear Radiance
as Murasaki Shikibu | Mahiro
NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen
as Self - Red Team Host
Time Limit Investigator
as Mayumi Myougadani
Atsuhime
Love Shuffle
as Hayakawa Kairi
Off the Record
as Keito Makabe
Vampire Prosecutor
as Runa
I Will Not Work Overtime, Period!
as Yui Higashiyama
On a Starry Night
as Yukimiya Suzu
Tokyo Tarareba Girls
as 鎌田倫子
Tokyo Dogs
as Yuki Matsunaga
Dangerous Venus
as Kaede Yagami
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
as Yoimachi Shinobu
Galileo XX
as Misa Kishitani
Let's play with KONNO-SAN!
as Konno Miyuki
The Reason I Can't Find My Love
as Saki Ogura
Your Eyes Tell
as Akari Kashiwagi