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

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

Appearances as themselves (4)

• STAR CHIP GOLF — Herself
• 2012Making of Himizu — Self
• 2008The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table — Herself
• NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen — Self - Red Team Host