Yuriko Yoshitaka

Known for ActingBorn 1988-07-22 (age 38)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game

Dear Radiance

MIOKA –MY LAST DAYS WITH YOU–

Atsuhime

Your Eyes Tell

We Were There: True Love

The Reason I Can't Find My Love

Galileo

The Samurai and the Prisoner

White Spring

Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow

Tokyo Tarareba Girls

Off the Record

Hanako & Anne

We Were There: First Love

NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen

Tokyo Dogs

Vampire Prosecutor

A Story of Yonosuke

Cannonball Wedlock

Dearest

I Will Not Work Overtime, Period!

Cyborg She

Galileo XX

Robo-G

Phone Call to the Bar

Dangerous Venus

Gravity's Clowns

Ms. Justice

Adrift in Tokyo

Himizu

Midsummer's Equation

Homeroom on the Beachside

Yurigokoro

Noriko's Dinner Table

Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

Time Limit Investigator

Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler

Gantz: Perfect Answer

Gantz

Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2020 Special

Love Shuffle

Killing for the Prosecution

The Wind, The Storm

Snakes and Earrings

On a Starry Night

Your Friend

Camellia