Akiko Wakabayashi

Known for ActingBorn 1939-12-13 (age 86)Ota, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Akiko Wakabayashi (born December 13, 1939 in Ōta, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Akiko Wakabayashi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Diamonds of the Andes

Hello, Baby

Youth Season

Girl from Hong Kong

Song for a Bride

Female Detective Story: S.O.S Woman

All About Marriage

Sensation Seekers

The Crimson Sky

Achan's Baby Gang

Bandits on the Wind

New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller

The Entrapped Gangster

A Keg of Powder

It Started In The Alps

Walleyed Nippon

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Reporters from the Sky

Akiko

Interpol Code 8

The Stranger Within a Woman

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

The Weed of Crime

Anything For Success

The Orientals

Respect, Flatter, and Love

The Terrible Game

King Kong vs. Godzilla

Key of Keys

Dogora

You Only Live Twice

King Kong vs. Godzilla

Adventure in Kigan Castle

The Beast Shall Die

Shirley's World

Samurai Pirate

What's Up, Tiger Lily?

More Than 10,000 Women But...

A Salaryman's Reckless Family

Yes! Yes! 3 Young Girls

Kanpai! Sararīman shokun

Our Failures

Whirlpool of Love

Pig and Goldfish

Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten

Ganpā kachō

Ginza Tomboy

In Self-Defense