[1] She started out as a gravure idol in 1994 in a swimsuit campaign for Toyobo and in the same year she was also chosen as one of the Fuji Television Visual Queens.
[5] Also in 1996, she appeared in the fantasy film Acri: The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius, directed by singer-songwriter Tatsuya Ishii.
[1][2] In the TV Tokyo series Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora, a live action TV drama based on a series of novels which aired in October to December, 2006, she played the role of the nurse Akiko Tanizaki.
According to reports, Yoshino was to be paid about 20 to 25 million yen (about US$170,000 to 200,000) and it was considered that the video might sell as many as 100,000 copies.
[12] In 2011, she starred in the title role for the TBS version of the manga classic Lady Snowblood which was broadcast on March 27, 2011.