Akiko Wakabayashi (born December 13, 1939 in ÅŒta, Tokyo) is a Japanese actress, best known in English-speaking countries for her role as Bond girl, Aki in the 1967 James Bond movie You Only Live Twice. Prior to this, she made many movies in her native Japan, especially Toho Studio’s monster movies such as Dagora, the Space Monster and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (both of which were also released under various other titles). When production of You Only Live Twice began, Wakabayashi was originally slated to play the role of Kissy Suzuki whilst her co-star Mie Hama played Suki, one of Tiger Tanaka’s top agents. When learning English proved to be a major hurdle to Hama, the women switched roles, with Hama now playing the smaller part of Kissy and Wakabayashi playing the larger part of Suki. Wakabayashi, as Aki in the movie You Only Live Twice. At her suggestion, the character of Suki was renamed to Aki. This is probably partly because[citation needed] in 1966, Woody Allen took the Japanese action film International Secret Police: Key of Keys (in which both Mie Hama and Wakabayashi starred), re-edited, re-dubbed, re-plotted, and renamed it What’s Up, Tiger Lily?. In the film, Wakabayashi’s character was “Suki Yaki” whereas her You Only Live Twice co-star Hama played “Teri Yaki”. Wakabayashi made only one more film (and a guest TV appearance) before disappearing from both the big and small screen. In an interview in G-FAN magazine (No. 76), Wakabayashi said she retired from acting due to injuries sustained while making a movie.
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Akiko Wakabayashi Biography / Wiki
| Name | Akiko Wakabayashi |
| Also Know | 若林 æ˜ å, Ðкико ВакабаÑÑи |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Ota, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
| Date of Birth | 1941-08-26 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 81 |
| Deathday |
Akiko Wakabayashi Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Akiko | Akiko | 1961-03-23 | The quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Japanese girl knocks at her door, claiming to be the… |
| You Only Live Twice | Aki | 1967-06-13 | A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the c… |
| What’s Up, Tiger Lily? | Suki Yaki | 1966-11-02 | In comic Woody Allen’s film debut, he took the Japanese action film “International Secret Police: Key of Keys” and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to … |
| The Orientals | 1960-04-08 | Episodic, globe-trotting quasi-mondo focused on women of the East…. | |
| Diamonds of the Andes | 1968-04-28 | Romantic action film set against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. Jiro Ibuki has decided to leave the world of the yakuza and live with his f… | |
| Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster | Mas Selina Salno | 1964-12-20 | A meteor lands in Kurobe Valley as detective Shindo is assigned to protect Princess Salno from assassination. She emerges under the guise of a Venusia… |
| Key of Keys | Bai-Lan | 1965-10-22 | Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi is the fourth instalment of five films in the “Kokusai himitsu keisatsu” series. The film is a parody of James … |
| Girl from Hong Kong | Anna Suh | 1961-08-29 | Unusual race relations melodrama from West Germany follows a German sailor who meets and weds a Chinese woman while on leave in Hong Kong, only to mee… |
| Our Failures | 1962-09-01 | Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures…. | |
| The Thin Line | Sayuri Sugimoto | 1966-02-12 | Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although … |
| Interpol Code 8 | 1963-08-31 | Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas…. | |
| Acchan no bebi gyangu | Midori | 1961-09-17 | Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe…. |
| Adventure in Kigan Castle | Spuria, Chamberlain’s daughter | 1966-04-28 | Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in… |
| The Weed of Crime | 1962-12-08 | Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade…. | |
| Arupusu no wakadaishô | 1966-05-28 | Seventh movie of the WakadaishÅ series directed by Kengo Furusawa… | |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla | Tamiye | 1962-08-11 | Japanese-Release Version. Tako, advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, is frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program and … |
| A Keg of Powder | Girl Taken at Haneda | 1964-12-09 | In the third installment in the “Kokusai himitsu keisatsu” series, agent Jiro Kitami investigates the mysterious disappearance of a prominent scientis… |
| Hello, Baby! | 1964-03-20 | … | |
| Lost World Of Sinbad | Yaya’s maid | 1963-10-26 | An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the t… |
| Dogora | Gang Moll | 1964-08-11 | A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds…. |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla | Tamiye (uncredited) | 1963-06-26 | US version. The re-edited John Beck version of the film: released outside of Japan and restructured with new footage of American actors centering arou… |
| Song for a Bride | 1958-02-11 | An Ishiro Honda film…. | |
| The Beast Shall Die | Hostess at the Rollita B | 1959-06-09 | A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mot… |
| When a Woman Ascends the Stairs | Hostess | 1960-01-15 | Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she’s a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life’s vicious cycle: acting cheerful ar… |
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