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\u00a0Hitomi Kanehara’s award-winning novel\u00a0“Snakes and Earrings”\u00a0in 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\u00a0breakthrough role. The Japanese public began to take notice of her, and in a poll conducted by\u00a0Oricon, 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\u00a0Flow’s music video\u00a0“Arigat\u014d” (\u3042\u308a\u304c\u3068\u3046, “Thanks”), was given her first lead role in the comedy drama Konno-san to Asobo (\u7d3a\u91ce\u3055\u3093\u3068\u904a\u307c\u3046, Let\u2019s Play with Konno-san) and took up the lead role in the film Yubae Sh\u014djo (\u5915\u6620\u3048\u5c11\u5973, A Girl in the Sunset) before the theatrical release of her other lead film\u00a0Snakes and Earrings. In 2009, Yoshitaka was given the role of the suicidal Kairi Hayakawa in the romantic-comedy\u00a0drama\u00a0Love Shuffle. Later in the year, she portrayed Y\u016bki Matsunaga (\u677e\u6c38 \u7531\u5c90, Matsunaga Y\u016bki) in the police drama\u00a0“Tokyo Dogs”\u00a0with\u00a0Shun Oguri\u00a0and\u00a0Hiro Mizushima\u00a0as her co-stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0Hitomi Kanehara’s award-winning novel\u00a0“Snakes and Earrings”\u00a0in 2007. Portraying Lui, a teenager whose life goes into a downward spiral after meeting the forked-tongued and tattooed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-32962","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n