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.
Acting
Movie
Your Eyes Tell
as Akari Kashiwagi
2020
Movie
Gantz
as Tae Kojima
2010
Movie
Gantz: Perfect Answer
as Tae Kojima
2011
Movie
Himizu
as Miki
2012
Movie
Noriko's Dinner Table
as Yuka / Yoko
2005
Movie
Cyborg She
as Student in 22nd Century
2008
Movie
Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
as Yasuda, Ishida Hiromi
2009
Movie
A Story of Yonosuke
as Shōko Yosano
2013
Movie
Adrift in Tokyo
as Fufumi
2007
Movie
Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler
as Yumi Ishida
2011
Movie
Snakes and Earrings
as Lui
2008
TV
Galileo
as Misa Kishitani
2007
Movie
Midsummer's Equation
as Misa Kishitani
2013
Movie
We Were There: First Love
as Nanami Takahashi
2012
Movie
Yurigokoro
as Misako
2017
Movie
Killing for the Prosecution
as Saho Tachibana
2018
Movie
Galileo XX
as Misa Kishitani
2013
Movie
We Were There: True Love
as Nanami Takahashi
2012
TV
Dearest
as Rio Sanada
2021
Movie
Phone Call to the Bar
as Megumi Kondo
2011
Movie
Robo-G
as Sasaki Yoko
2012
TV
Love Shuffle
as Hayakawa Kairi
2009
TV
I Will Not Work Overtime, Period!
as Yui Higashiyama
2019
TV
Tokyo Dogs
as Yuki Matsunaga
2009