Yuriko Yoshitaka (吉高 由里子, Yoshitaka Yuriko) (born July 22, 1988) 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.
Series | Spring in the Ancient Capitals of Japan | 2025 | |
Series | Dear Radiance | Murasaki Shikibu | Mahiro | 2024-01-07 |
Series | On a Starry Night | Yukimiya Suzu | 2023-01-17 |
Series | The Man Next Door Eats Well | 伊藤野枝 | 2023-04-12 |
Series | About Sunday Night... | 伊藤野枝 | 2023-04-30 |
Movie | Hard Days | 2023-05-19 | |
Series | The Wind, The Storm | 伊藤野枝 | 2022-09-04 |
Series | Dearest | Rio Sanada | 2021-10-15 |
Movie | Your Eyes Tell | Akari Kashiwagi | 2020-10-23 |
Series | Dangerous Venus | Kaede Yagami | 2020-10-11 |
Series | Off the Record | Keito Makabe | 2020-01-08 |
Series | Tokyo Tarareba Musume 2020 Special | Rinko Kamata (鎌田倫子) | 2020-10-07 |
Series | I Will Not Work Overtime, Period! | Yui Higashiyama | 2019-05-14 |
Movie | Killing for the Prosecution | Saho Tachibana | 2018-08-24 |
Series | Ms. Justice | Ririko Takemura | 2018-04-11 |
Series | Tokyo Tarareba Girls | 카마타 린코 | 2017-01-18 |
Movie | Yurigokoro | Misako | 2017-09-23 |
Series | Hanako & Anne | 2014-03-31 | |
Movie | A Story of Yonosuke | Shōko Yosano | 2013-02-23 |
Movie | Midsummer's Equation | Misa Kishitani | 2013-06-28 |
Movie | Galileo XX | Misa Kishitani | 2013-06-22 |
Movie | Robo-G | Sasaki Yoko | 2012-01-14 |
Movie | We Were There: First Love | Nanami Takahashi | 2012-03-17 |
Movie | We Were There: True Love | Nanami Takahashi | 2012-04-21 |
Movie | Gantz: Perfect Answer | Tae Kojima | 2011-04-23 |
Movie | Cannonball Wedlock | Chie | 2011-04-01 |
Movie | Phone Call to the Bar | Megumi Kondo | 2011-09-10 |
Movie | Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler | Yumi | 2011-11-05 |
Movie | Himizu | Miki | 2011-09-05 |
Series | The Reason I Can't Find My Love | Saki Ogura | 2011-10-17 |
Movie | All to the Sea | 2010-01-23 | |
Series | MIOKA –MY LAST DAYS WITH YOU– | Minegishi Mioka | 2010-07-10 |
Series | Tofu Sisters | Yoshitaka Kinuyo / Momen (voice) / Yuriko | 2010-07-31 |
Movie | Gantz | Tae Kojima | 2010-11-29 |
Movie | Camellia | Kamome (segment "Kamome") | 2010-10-15 |
Series | Love Shuffle | Hayakawa Kairi | 2009-01-16 |
Series | White Spring | Nishida Shiori | 2009-04-14 |
Series | Tokyo Dogs | Yuki Matsunaga | 2009-10-19 |
Movie | Gravity's Clowns | Natsuko | 2009-05-23 |
Movie | Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler | 2009-10-10 | |
Series | Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow | Yoimachi Shinobu | 2008-01-08 |
Movie | A Girl in the Sunset | (segment "Itaria no Uta") | 2008-01-26 |
Series | Atsuhime | 2008-01-06 | |
Series | Tonsure | Mika Kashiwaba | 2008-10-05 |
Movie | Snakes and Earrings | Lui | 2008-09-20 |
Movie | Cyborg She | Student in 22nd Century | 2008-05-31 |
Movie | Your Friend | Hana | 2008-07-26 |
Series | Homeroom on the Beachside | Akara Yashima | 2008-07-21 |
Movie | Tokyo Rhapsody | 2007-05-12 | |
Movie | Adrift in Tokyo | Fufumi | 2007-11-10 |
Series | Galileo | Misa Kishitani | 2007-10-15 |
Movie | Noriko's Dinner Table | Yuka / Yoko | 2005-09-23 |