Yuka Itaya

Yuka Itaya (板谷 由夏, Itaya Yuka; born 22 June 1975, in Fukuoka Prefecture)^[1] is a Japanese actress and caster. She is represented with Amuse, Inc.^[2]

Yuka Itaya
板谷 由夏
Born	(1975-06-22) 22 June 1975 (age 50) Fukuoka Prefecture,[1] Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1994–present
Agent	Amuse, Inc.
Notable work	Dodge Go! Go!
Television	Perfect Love! Aishiteru: Kaiyō Gine: Sanfujinka no Onna-tachi
Spouse	Hirohiko Furuta ​ (m. 2007)​
Website	Official website

Biography

• Itaya graduated from Kyushu International University Comes High School^[3] and Fukuoka Jo Gakuin Junior College.^[4]
• She worked as an exclusive model for PeeWee in 1994.^[4]
• In 1995, Itaya joined with Hanamaru Hakata (As Hakata Tsuruya at the time) and Otako Pū as South End×Yuka (stylized as SOUTH END×YUKA) and released the single "So.ta.i".
• Co-starring with Kentarō Ōtani, she acting debut in the film avec mon mari, in which she won the Best New Talent award at the Yokohama Film Festival.^[4] After appearing in Perfect Love!, Itaya appeared in many television dramas and films.^[4]
• On 22 February 2007, she married wardrobe stylist Hirohiko Furuta. Itaya gave birth to her eldest son in June 2008, and to her second son on 9 August 2012,^[5] and is now a mother of two children.

Filmography

TV dramas

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1999	Perfect Love!	Aya Tominaga		[6]
2008	Atsuhime	Hirokawa	Taiga drama	[7]
2015	Ishi-tachi no Renai Jijō	Tomoko Ichikawa		[8]
	Kāsan, Ore wa Daijōbu	Nurse Shintani	TV movie	[9]
	Isan Sōzoku	Rinko Kawamura		[10]
2016	Yassan: Tsukiji-hatsu! Oishī Jiken-bo	Omoni		[8][11]
	Sniffer: Kyūkaku Sōsa-kan	Emi Katayama		[12]
2017	The Stranger Within a Woman	Michiko Ito		[13]
2021	Pension Metsa	Fuki	Episode 3	[14]
	Ochoyan	Yū	Asadora	[15]
2022	Tokyo Vice	Mrs. Katagiri		[16]
2024	Dear Radiance	Takashina no Takako	Taiga drama	[17]

Variety, cultural programmes

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
2007	News Zero	Tuesday caster	[18]
2010	History 10-Nen no Happyō: Anata ga Erabu 10 Genre No. 1	Presenter	[19]
2011	Takumi Saito×Yuka Itaya: Eiga Kōbō		[20]
2016	Nonfiction W: Hollywood o Sukutta Utagoe –Shijō Saikyō no Ghost Singer to Yoba reta Onna–	Narration	[21]
2022	Love Is Blind: Japan	Co-host	[22]

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1999	avec mon mari	Mitsuko Aso
2001	Hikari no Ame	Teruko Tsukida
2002	Dodge Go! Go!	Sachie Yamada
	Tokyo.sora	Yoko
	Tasogare Ryūsei-gun	Mina Imai
2004	Survive Style 5+	President's Secretary
2005	A Stranger of Mine	Ayumi Kurata
	Irasshaimase, Kanja-sama.	Yen Shimizu
	Yokubō	Ruiko Aota	Lead role
2006	Berna no shippo	Keiko Ito
	Akihabara@Deep	Yui
2007	Sad Vacation	Saeko Shiina
	Closed Note	Seibi Yamazaki
	Kayōkyokuda yo, Jinsei wa	Beautiful woman
	Apartment 1303	Neighbor next door
2010	Ōoku	Ōoka Tadasuke
	Outrage	Otomo woman
2012	Girl	Takako Hirai
	Hotaru the Movie: It's Only A Little Light In My Life	Sachiko Yamada
2014	Our Family
2016	You Lie in April	Hiroko Seto
2017	March Comes in like a Lion	Misaki
2018	Sunny: Our Hearts Beat Together	adult Ito Serika
2019	37 Seconds	Fujimoto		[23]
	At the End of the Matinee	Keiko		[24]
2021	Unlock Your Heart	Yoriko Kimura		[25]
2022	A Hundred Flowers			[26]
	No Place to Go	Michiko Kitabayashi	Lead role	[27]
2023	Analog	Kazumi		[28]
	The Moon			[29]
2024	Sensei's Pious Lie			[30]
	Adabana		French-Japanese film	[31]
2025	Good Luck			[32]

Japanese dub

Year	Title	Role	Voice dub for	Notes	Ref.
2015	Extant	Molly Woods	Halle Berry		[33]

Awards

Year	Award	Work	Ref.
1999	21st Yokohama Film Festival Best New Talent	avec mon mari	[34]
2005	60th Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress	A Stranger of Mine	[35]