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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Akiko Wakabayashi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
You Only Live Twice
as AkiA mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
as TamiyeThe advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as HostessKeiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow....
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
as Tamiye (uncredited)When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong...
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
as Mas Selina SalnoAfter a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla...
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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
as Suki YakiIn comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret...
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A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of...
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The Thin Line
as Sayuri SugimotoTashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in...
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A Keg of Powder
as Girl Taken at HanedaIn the third installment in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, agent Jiro Kitami...
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The Beast Shall Die
as Hostess at the Rollita BA promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following...
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Samurai Pirate
as Yaya's maidAn adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil...
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Adventure in Kigan Castle
as Spuria, Chamberlain's daughterOsami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the...
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Key of Keys
as Bai-LanIntelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas.
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Acchan no bebi gyangu
as MidoriBased on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.
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Our Failures
as uncreditedTells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his...
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Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie
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Diamonds of the Andes
as uncreditedRomantic action film set against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. Jiro Ibuki has...
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Arupusu no wakadaishô
as uncreditedSeventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa
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The Weed of Crime
as uncreditedToho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.
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Interpol Code 8
as uncreditedAgent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.
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Akiko
as AkikoThe quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and...
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Girl from Hong Kong
as Anna SuhUnusual race relations melodrama from West Germany follows a German sailor who meets and weds a...
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The Orientals
as uncreditedEpisodic, globe-trotting quasi-mondo focused on women of the East.
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Shirley's World
as uncreditedShirley's World is a television series aired first by American Broadcasting Company during the...
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