Akiko Wakabayashi

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.

  • Title : Akiko Wakabayashi
  • Popularity : 8
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1939-12-13
  • Place of Birth : Ota, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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  • Also Known As : 若林 映子, Акико Вакабаяси
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Akiko Wakabayashi Movies

  • 1967
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    You Only Live Twice

    You Only Live Twice

    6.567 1967 HD

    A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the...

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  • 1962
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    King Kong vs. Godzilla

    King Kong vs. Godzilla

    6.846 1962 HD

    The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist...

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  • 1966
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    What's Up, Tiger Lily?

    What's Up, Tiger Lily?

    5.3 1966 HD

    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...

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  • 1960
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    When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

    When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

    7.963 1960 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    Kanpai! Sararīman shokun

    Kanpai! Sararīman shokun

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1962
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    The Crimson Sky

    The Crimson Sky

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1964
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    Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

    Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

    7 1964 HD

    After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.

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  • 1966
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    Adventure in Kigan Castle

    Adventure in Kigan Castle

    5.7 1966 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    Our Failures

    Our Failures

    1 1962 HD

    Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.

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  • 1962
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    The Weed of Crime

    The Weed of Crime

    1 1962 HD

    Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

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  • 1966
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    The Thin Line

    The Thin Line

    7.3 1966 HD

    Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

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  • 1962
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    Ai no uzu shio

    Ai no uzu shio

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1962
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    Pig and Goldfish

    Pig and Goldfish

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1961
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    Akiko

    Akiko

    6.5 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    Samurai Pirate

    Samurai Pirate

    5.5 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1966
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    Arupusu no wakadaishô

    Arupusu no wakadaishô

    1 1966 HD

    Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa

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  • 1965
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    Key of Keys

    Key of Keys

    6 1965 HD

    Intelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas.

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  • 1962
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    Wakai kisetsu

    Wakai kisetsu

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1962
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    Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten

    Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1962
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    Gekkyū dorobō

    Gekkyū dorobō

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 2006
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    The Exotic Locations of 'You Only Live Twice'

    The Exotic Locations of 'You Only Live Twice'

    6 2006 HD

    Maud Adams narrates a tour of the locations of You Only Live Twice.

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  • 2002
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    Best Ever Bond

    Best Ever Bond

    5 2002 HD

    Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.

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  • 1964
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    Dogora

    Dogora

    6.8 1964 HD

    A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.

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  • 1964
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    A Keg of Powder

    A Keg of Powder

    1 1964 HD

    In the third installment in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, agent Jiro Kitami investigates the mysterious disappearance of a prominent...

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  • 1963
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    Interpol Code 8

    Interpol Code 8

    1 1963 HD

    Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.

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  • 1964
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    こんにちは赤ちゃん

    こんにちは赤ちゃん

    10 1964 HD

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  • 1959
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    The Beast Shall Die

    The Beast Shall Die

    5.6 1959 HD

    A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...

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  • 1961
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    Acchan no bebi gyangu

    Acchan no bebi gyangu

    1 1961 HD

    Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.

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  • 1958
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    Song for a Bride

    Song for a Bride

    1 1958 HD

    An Ishiro Honda film.

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  • 1960
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    The Orientals

    The Orientals

    1 1960 HD

    Episodic, globe-trotting quasi-mondo focused on women of the East.

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  • 1961
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    Girl from Hong Kong

    Girl from Hong Kong

    10 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    King Kong vs. Godzilla

    King Kong vs. Godzilla

    6.6 1963 HD

    When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they...

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  • 1968
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    Diamonds of the Andes

    Diamonds of the Andes

    1 1968 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    Shirley's World

    Shirley's World

    5 1972 HD

    Shirley's World is a television series aired first by American Broadcasting Company during the U.S. 1971-72 television season. The sitcom was...

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