Akiko Wakabayashi
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.
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Acting
Movie
You Only Live Twice
as Aki
1967
Movie
King Kong vs. Godzilla
as Tamiye
1962
Movie
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
as Princess Maas Doulina Salno of Selgina
1964
Movie
King Kong vs. Godzilla
as Tamiye (uncredited)
1963
Movie
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
as Suki Yaki
1966
Movie
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as Hostess
1960
Movie
Dogora
as Gang Moll
1964
Movie
The Stranger Within a Woman
as Sayuri Sugimoto
1966
Movie
Samurai Pirate
as Yaya's maid
1963
Movie
The Beast Shall Die
as Hostess at the Rollita B
1959
Movie
Adventure in Kigan Castle
as Spuria, Chamberlain's daughter
1966
Movie
Key of Keys
as Bai-Lan
1965
Movie
Hello, Baby
as Shizuko Nagata
1964
TV
Shirley's World
1972
Movie
A Keg of Powder
as Girl Taken at Haneda
1964
Movie
Interpol Code 8
as Mie Tsugawa
1963
Movie
Akiko
as Akiko
1961
Movie
It Started In The Alps
1966
Movie
Girl from Hong Kong
as Anna Suh
1961
Movie
The Crimson Sky
1962
Movie
The Weed of Crime
1962
Movie
Youth Season
1962
Movie
Anything For Success
1962
Movie
Acchan no bebi gyangu
as Midori
1961