Yuriko Yoshitaka
Acting • Born 1988-07-22
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
61 credits
CHiLDREN
Movie • 2006
Miharu (young)
All to the Sea
Movie • 2010
Adrift in Tokyo
Movie • 2007
Fufumi
Noriko's Dinner Table
Movie • 2005
Yuka / Yoko
Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
Movie • 2009
Yasuda, Ishida Hiromi
Snakes and Earrings
Movie • 2008
Lui
Cannonball Wedlock
Movie • 2011
Chie
The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table
Movie • 2008
Herself
Gantz: Perfect Answer
Movie • 2011
Tae Kojima
Phone Call to the Bar
Movie • 2011
Megumi Kondo
Gravity's Clowns
Movie • 2009
Natsuko
Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler
Movie • 2011
Yumi Ishida
Robo-G
Movie • 2012
Sasaki Yoko
A Story of Yonosuke
Movie • 2013
Shōko Yosano
Camellia
Movie • 2010
Kamome (segment "Kamome")
Himizu
Movie • 2011
Miki
Tokyo Rhapsody
Movie • 2007
Midsummer's Equation
Movie • 2013
Misa Kishitani
We Were There: First Love
Movie • 2012
Nanami Takahashi
We Were There: True Love
Movie • 2012
Nanami Takahashi
Your Friend
Movie • 2008
Hana
Gantz
Movie • 2010
Tae Kojima
Cyborg She
Movie • 2008
Student in 22nd Century
Yurigokoro
Movie • 2017
Misako
Killing for the Prosecution
Movie • 2018
Saho Tachibana
A Girl in the Sunset
Movie • 2008
(segment "Itaria no Uta")
Galileo XX
Movie • 2013
Misa Kishitani
Your Eyes Tell
Movie • 2020
Akari Kashiwagi
Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner
Movie • 2026
Tofu Sisters
TV • 2010
Yoshitaka Kinuyo / Momen (voice) / Yuriko
Time Limit Investigator
TV • 2006
Mayumi Myougadani
Dearest
TV • 2021
Rio Sanada
Love Shuffle
TV • 2009
Hayakawa Kairi
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
TV • 2008
Yoimachi Shinobu
Tokyo Dogs
TV • 2009
Yuki Matsunaga
The Reason I Can't Find My Love
TV • 2011
Saki Ogura
White Spring
TV • 2009
Nishida Shiori
Homeroom on the Beachside
TV • 2008
Akara Yashima
Tonsure
TV • 2008
Mika Kashiwaba
Vampire Prosecutor
TV • 2011
Runa
Galileo
TV • 2007
Misa Kishitani
Tokyo Tarareba Girls
TV • 2017
鎌田倫子
Ms. Justice
TV • 2018
Ririko Takemura
Dear Radiance
TV • 2024
Murasaki Shikibu | Mahiro
The Wind, The Storm
TV • 2022
伊藤野枝
MIOKA –MY LAST DAYS WITH YOU–
TV • 2010
Minegishi Mioka
Let's play with KONNO-SAN!
TV • 2008
Konno Miyuki
I Will Not Work Overtime, Period!
TV • 2019
Yui Higashiyama
Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game
TV • 2003
Guest
Hanako & Anne
TV • 2014
Ando Hana / Muraoka Hana
On a Starry Night
TV • 2023
Yukimiya Suzu
Atsuhime
TV • 2008
Off the Record
TV • 2020
Keito Makabe
M&Oplaysプロデュース「クランク・イン！」
TV • 2023
ジュン
午後LIVE ニュースーン
TV
Tokyo Tarareba Musume 2020 Special
TV • 2020
Rinko Kamata (鎌田倫子)
Dangerous Venus
TV • 2020
Kaede Yagami
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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]
TV • 2024
NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen
TV • 1951
Self - Red Team Host
吉高由里子 プリンスエドワード島の旅
TV • 2025
STAR CHIP GOLF
TV • 2025
Herself