1. Yuriko Yoshitaka has played numerous roles in film and television, including lead roles in Snakes and Earrings, Yurigokoro, and the NHK asadora Hanako to Anne.
10 Facts About Yuriko Yoshitaka
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At age 16, her first year of high school, Yoshitaka joined the entertainment industry when she was scouted by an agency while shopping at Harajuku.
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Yuriko Yoshitaka was given the lead role in the live-action adaptation of Hitomi Kanehara's award-winning novel Snakes and Earrings in 2007.
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The Japanese public began to take notice of her, and in a poll conducted by Oricon, Yuriko Yoshitaka was the fifth promising young actress of 2009 and 2009's freshest female celebrity.
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Yuriko Yoshitaka began to receive more work in 2008 as she appeared in Flow's music video "Arigato", was given her first lead role in the comedy drama Konno-san to Asobo and took up the lead role in the film Yubae Shojo before the theatrical release of her other lead film Snakes and Earrings.
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In 2009, Yuriko Yoshitaka was given the role of the suicidal Kairi Hayakawa in the romantic-comedy drama Love Shuffle.
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Yuriko Yoshitaka played Tae Kojima in the two-part 2011 live-action adaptation of the sci-fi and action manga Gantz.
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Yuriko Yoshitaka took the lead role in Koji Maeda's movie Konzen Tokkyu, portraying a young woman dating multiple men in hopes of finding the right one to marry.
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Yuriko Yoshitaka hosted the 65th NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen on New Year's Eve 2014 alongside Arashi.
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Yuriko Yoshitaka was in the intensive care unit for five days as a result.