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 liveaction adaptation of Hitomi Kaneharas awardwinning novel Snakes and Earrings in 2007 Portraying Lui a teenager whose life goes into a downward spiral after meeting the forkedtongued and tattooed Ama the role was Yoshitakas 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 2009s 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 Flows music video Arigatō ありがとう Thanks was given her first lead role in the comedy drama Konnosan to Asobo 紺野さんと遊ぼう Lets Play with Konnosan 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 romanticcomedy 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 costars