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