Yuriko Yoshitaka Wiki, Age, Biography, Height, Boyfriend, Family, Images, And More

Yoshitaka Yuriko (, Yuriko Yuriko, born July 22, 1988) is a Japanese actress. She has been in various films and television shows, including Snakes and Earrings, Yurigokoro, and the NHK asadora Hanako to Anne.

Yoshitaka's career began at the age of 16, during her first year of high school, when she was scouted by an agency while shopping in Harajuku. Yoshitaka debuted as an actress in 2006. In 2007, she was cast as the lead in the live-action version of Hitomi Kanehara's award-winning novel Snakes and Earrings. Yoshitaka's breakout performance was as Lui, a youngster whose life spirals downward after encountering the forked-tongued and tattooed Ama. The Japanese people began to notice her, and according to an Oricon poll, Yoshitaka was the fifth most promising young actress of 2009 and the year's freshest female celebrity. In 2010, Oricon organized another vote to determine the most promising actress, and she rose to the top of the list.

Yoshitaka began to receive more work in 2008, when she appeared in Flow's music video "Arigat" (, "Thanks"), was cast in her first lead role in the comedy drama Konno-san to Asobo (, Let's Play with Konno-san), and took on the lead role in the film Yubae Shjo (, A Girl in the Sunset) prior to the theatrical release of her other lead film Snakes and Earrings.

Yoshitaka was cast as the suicidal Kairi Hayakawa in the romantic comedy drama Love Shuffle in 2009. Later same year, she starred as Yki Matsunaga (, Matsunaga Yki) in the police drama Tokyo Dogs, alongside Shun Oguri and Hiro Mizushima.

In 2010, she played all three sisters in Tofu Shimai (, lit. Tofu Sisters), a short drama series. On May 13, 2010, it was reported that Yoshitaka would play a university student with an incurable illness in a network television drama series named Mioka ().

In the two-part 2011 live-action version of the sci-fi and action comic Gantz, she portrayed Tae Kojima. She also starred as a young woman dating numerous men in the hopes of finding the right one to marry in Kji Maeda's film Konzen Tokky. It debuted in the spring of 2011.

She portrayed Hanako Muraoka (1893-1968) in Hanako to Anne (, Hanako to An), a Japanese television drama series, the 90th Asadora series broadcast on NHK, from March 31, 2014 to September 27, 2014. On New Year's Eve 2014, she co-hosted the 65th NHK Khaku Uta Gassen with Arashi.

Yoshitaka was wounded in a traffic accident in September 2007, while rehearsing for her role in Snakes and Earrings, and suffered a fractured jaw. As a result, she spent five days in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Filmography

TV drama

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Jikō Keisatsu	Mayumi	Episode 6
	Children	young Miharu	Television film
	PS Rashōmon	Yukari Sonoda	Episode 2
	Ii Onna	Mika Nakamura
2007	Jodan Ja Nai!		Episode 8
2007	Yonimo Kimyona Monogatari: Countdown
2008	Ashita no Kita Yoshio	Shinobu Yoimachi
	Atsuhime	Otetsu	Taiga drama
	Konno-san to Asobo	Miyuki Konno	Lead role
	Average
	Taiyo to Umi no Kyoshitsu	Akari Yashima
	Tonsure	Mika Kashiwaba	Lead role
	Average 2
	The Naminori Restaurant	Misaki
2009	Love Shuffle	Kairi Hayakawa
	True Horror Stories: Chi Nurareta Ryokan	Moe Yasuda	Lead role; short drama
	Shiroi Haru	Shiori Nishida
	Ikemen Shin Sobaya Tantei	Glico	Episode 5
	Tokyo Dogs	Yūki Matsunaga
2010	Tofu Shimai	Three sisters: Kinuyo, Momen, Yuriko	Lead role; miniseries
2010	Mioka	Mioka Minegishi	Lead role
2011	The Reason I can't Find Love	Saki Ogura	Lead role
2012	Vampire Prosecutor 2	Luna
2013	Galileo 2	Misa Kishitani
2014	Hanako to Anne	Hanako Muraoka	Lead role; Asadora
2017	Tokyo Tarareba Girls	Rinko Kamata	Lead role
2018	Ms. Justice	Ririko Takemura	Lead role
2019	I Will Not Work Overtime, Period	Yui Higashiyama	Lead role
2020	Off the Record	Keito Makabe	Lead role
2020	The Dangerous Venus	Kaede Yagami
2021	Dearest	Rio Sanada	Lead role
2024	Hikaru Kimi e	Murasaki Shikibu	Lead role; Taiga drama

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Zoo	"Seven Rooms" Room 7 girl
2006	Noriko's Dinner Table	Yuka Shimbara
2007	Maruyamacho	Seta
	Kayokyoku Dayo, Jinsei wa
	Adrift in Tokyo	Fufumi
2008	Yubae Shōjo		Lead role
	Cyborg She	Student in the 22nd Century
	Your Friends	Hanai Kyōko
	Snakes and Earrings	Lui	Lead role
2009	Gravity's Clowns	Natsuko
2009	Kaiji 2	Hiromi Ishida
2010	Subete wa Umi ni Naru	Shizuko
2011	Gantz	Tae Kojima
	Gantz: Perfect Answer	Tae Kojima
	Cannonball Wedlock	Chie	Lead role
2012	Robo-G	Yoko Sasaki
	We Were There: First Love	Nanami Takahashi	Lead role
	We Were There: True Love	Nanami Takahashi	Lead role
2013	The Story of Yonosuke	Shoko Yosano
2013	Midsummer's Equation	Misa Kishitani
2017	Yurigokoro	Misako	Lead role
2018	Killing for the Prosecution	Saho Tachibana
2020	Your Eyes Tell	Akari Kashiwagi	Lead role

Awards and nominations

Year	Organization	Award	Work	Result
2007	28th Yokohama Film Festival	Best Newcomer	Noriko's Dinner Table	Won
2009	32nd Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Newcomer	Snakes and Earrings	Won
	51st Blue Ribbon Awards	Best Newcomer		Won
	18th Japan Movie Critics Awards	Best New Actress		Won
2012	36th Elan d'or Awards	Newcomer of the Year	Herself	Won
2012	33rd Yokohama Film Festival	Best Actress	Cannonball Wedlock	Won
2014	68th Mainichi Film Awards	Best Supporting Actress	The Story of Yonosuke	Won
2018	41st Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Actress	Yurigokoro	Nominated
2022	15th Tokyo Drama Awards	Best Actress	Dearest	Won

Yuriko Yoshitaka Biography, Facts & Life Story

Body Measurements	35-26-34 Inches
Bodytype	Slim
Height	5 Feet 6 Inches (1.63 m)
Weight	55 kg (122 lbs)
Waist	26 Inches
Hair Color	Black
Eye Color	Black
Shoe Size	7 US
Dress Size	4 US

Nickname	Yuriko
Gender	Female
Age	34 years old (in 2023)
Date of Birth	July 22, 1988
Full Name	Yuriko Yoshitaka
Profession	Actress
Nationality	Japanese
Birthplace	Tokyo, Japan
Religion	Buddhism
Zodiac Sign	Cancer