Riho Yoshioka is Expected to be No.1 Lead Actress this Autumn after Her Long Absence in Drama

Autumn dramas for the October season are finally starting.

The general entertainment website “Crank In!” conducted a survey of readers on the leading actresses they are looking forward to seeing in October season dramas. The top choice was Riho Yoshioka (30), who stars in the drama “Toki wo Kakeru Na, Koibito-tachi” (Kantele/Fuji TV), which starts on October 10.

Yoshioka plays the main character, Maki Tokiwa, who works as an art director at an advertising agency and is adored by her junior colleagues, but is not good at love. The first-place winner was selected by the respondent who said, “I saw this movie in a ‘Y-mobile’ commercial.”

The respondents who chose No. 1 said they had high expectations for the two actors, who were well known for their comical performances in the “Y-Mobile” commercials, because they are working together again.

I’m looking forward to it because Shizuka and Papa were so good in the re-run of the terrestrial TV program.

I thought she was just a cute actress, but the sign language between Shizuka and Papa is very natural and likable! I didn’t expect her acting to be this good.

Many people commented on Yoshioka’s performance in “Shizuka-chan to Papa,” which aired on NHKBS Premium in March 2022 and was rebroadcast on NHK Sogo until September.

The drama was a home comedy that won various domestic awards, including the Hoso Bunka Foundation Award,

On social networking sites, people said, “She looked so natural that it didn’t look like she was acting.”

She is getting more beautiful as she gets older. It was wonderful.

Even women, who are often said to be anti-actors, commented on the actress’ performance. Speaking of Yoshioka, she got her big break in “Yutori kanaka nakana” (NTV series) broadcast in 2016 and “Quartet” (TBS series) broadcast in 2017, in which she played a woman who makes the most of her mockery and does not read the air.

However, in June 2017, while her popularity was soaring, Yoshioka mentioned her past gravure activities in an interview in a women’s magazine called “She is,” and only her words, “I hated gravure work,” were cut out and spread. In the article, Yoshioka was bashed for making fun of gravure and dissing gravure. Furthermore, reports of her love affair with Takeru Sato also appeared, and the female anti-gravure sentiment spread rapidly.