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name: "Yuriko Hirooka"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yuriko-hirooka"
fi1m_id: "yuriko-hirooka"
imdb_id: "nm0386395"
tmdb_id: 551590
wikidata_id: "Q11484395"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "31 May 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T02:59:52.907114+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Yuriko Hirooka

## Identity

Yuriko Hirooka

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yuriko-hirooka
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yuriko-hirooka
- **IMDb ID:** nm0386395
- **TMDB ID:** 551590
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11484395
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11484395, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386395/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/551590

Actor. Born 31 May 1965 in Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 31 May 1965, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
- **Also known as:** Yuriko Hiro'oka, Yurika Hirooka, 広岡由里子 , 히로오카 유리코
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11484395, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386395/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/551590

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Audition*](https://film.one/film/audition.md) (84)

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## Biography

Yuriko Hirooka is a Japanese actress. She was born on 31 May 1965 in Chiba, Japan.

She began her career in 1987 as a member of the theatre company 劇団東京乾電池 and appeared in most of its productions until leaving the group in 1999. Her film roles include Michiyo Yanagida in *Audition* (1999), Toshiko in *Gemini* (1999), and supporting parts in *Isola: Multiple Personality Girl* (2000) and *Ikisudama* (2001). She has continued to work in film and television, with credits including *A Story of Yonosuke* (2013), *Wood Job!* (2014) and numerous series such as *Aibou: Tokyo Detective Duo*.

*Sources: imdb.com, ja.wikipedia.org, asianwiki.com, wikidata.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Audition* (2000), Fi1m 84, as Michiyo Yanagida — [page](https://film.one/film/audition.md)

## Complete filmography (64)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Town of Blooming Forget-Me-Nots* (2026), series, Actor
- *Hei no Naka no Biyoushitsu* (2025), series, as Nimura
- *A Girl Named Ann* (2024), Actor
- *Hamlet Q1* (2024), Actor
- *Mom, Is That You?!* (2023), Actor
- *A Town Without Seasons* (2023), series, as Taeko
- *AI Love You* (2023), Actor
- *Yes, I Can't Swim* (2022), as Atsuko Ashino
- *Ultramarine Area* (2021), series, Actor
- *It's a Flickering Life* (2021), Actor
- *Kawa no Hotori de* (2021), series, Actor
- *Yell* (2020), series, Actor
- *Tales of the Bizarre: 2019 Rain Special* (2019), as Kiyomi Tōno
- *Hard-Core* (2018), Actor
- *Black Dahlia* (2018), Actor
- *Half Blue Sky* (2018), series, as Tomiko Saionji
- *Home Sweet Tokyo* (2017), series, as [Employee at the hot bath]
- *Let Me Eat Your Pancreas* (2017), as Kyoko's Co-worker
- *What a Wonderful Family! 2* (2017), Actor
- *Tax Inspector Madogiwa Taro: Case File 31* (2016), Actor
- *Shiratori Reiko: The Movie* (2016), as Masae Akimoto
- *What a Wonderful Family!* (2016), Actor
- *Nagasaki: Memories of My Son* (2015), Actor
- *Ghost Theater* (2015), Actor
- *Wood Job!* (2014), as Yuki's Mother
- *The World Within a 3-Km Radius* (2013), Actor
- *A Story of Yonosuke* (2013), as Housekeeper
- *必殺仕事人2013* (2013), Actor
- *Solitary Gourmet* (2012), series, as 笹川仁美
- *Shikei Kijun* (2011), as Toshiko Togane
- *Princess Go* (2011), series, as Asahi
- *A Little Princess* (2009), series, as Onuma Hideko
- *Brass Knuckle Boys* (2009), as Sachiko Shimizu
- *Abarenbo Mama* (2007), series, as Sachiko Kanai
- *Kitaro* (2007), as Mrs. Tanaka
- *Ghost Train* (2006), Actor
- *竜馬がゆく* (2004), series, Actor
- *Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement* (2003), Actor
- *The Armchair Detective and the Family of Flutists* (2003), Actor
- *AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo* (2002), series, Actor
- *The Life of Bangaku* (2002), series, Actor
- *Shadow of the Wraith* (2001), as Nakada Kimie
- *Inugami* (2001), Actor
- *By Player* (2000), as Yoshiko
- *The Story of One Century* (2000), series, as Support Role
- *The Whispered City* (2000), as Maya's shop clerk
- *Audition* (2000), as Michiyo Yanagida — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/audition.md)
- *Isola: Multiple Personality Girl* (2000), Actor
- *Gemini* (1999), as Toshiko
- *The Exam* (1999), Actor
- *Will to Live* (1999), Actor
- *Begging for Love* (1998), as Toyoko's co-worker
- *The Key* (1997), as Taki
- *Haunted School* (1995), as Mrs. Chiba
- *The Tokyo Siblings* (1995), as Yoshiko Hayashi
- *I'm not Afraid of the Hospital. The Reason I got Sick 2!* (1994), Actor
- *The Brutal Insanity of Love* (1993), Actor
- *Maria's Stomach* (1990), Actor
- *Nekketsu After School Club 1* (1990), Actor
- *Nekketsu After School Club 2* (1990), Actor
- *Nekketsu After School Club 3* (1990), Actor
- *Fancy Dance* (1989), as Madonna
- *Bakayarō! 2: I Want to Be Happy* (1989), Actor
- *Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You* (1988), as Tokyo Shoji Employee

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