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Akiko Wakabayashi
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 movi…
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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.
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1972
Shirley's World
TV show
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1968
Diamonds of the Andes
Movie
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1967
You Only Live Twice
Movie Aki
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1966
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Movie Suki Yaki
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1966
It Started In The Alps
Movie
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1966
Adventure in Kigan Castle
Movie Spuria, Chamberlain's daughter
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1966
The Stranger Within a Woman
Movie Sayuri Sugimoto
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1966
More Than 10,000 Women But...
Movie Satoko (Kyushu woman)
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1965
Key of Keys
Movie Bai-Lan
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1964
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Movie Princess Maas Doulina Salno of Selgina
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1964
A Keg of Powder
Movie Girl Taken at Haneda
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1964
Dogora
Movie Gang Moll
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1964
Hello, Baby
Movie Shizuko Nagata
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1963
Samurai Pirate
Movie Yaya's maid
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1963
Walleyed Nippon
Movie Riko Arikane
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1963
Interpol Code 8
Movie Mie Tsugawa
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1963
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Movie Tamiye (uncredited)
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1963
Sensation Seekers
Movie
- 1963
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1963
Yes! Yes! 3 Young Girls
Movie
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1962
The Weed of Crime
Movie
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1962
Anything For Success
Movie
- 1962
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1962
Youth Season
Movie
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1962
Our Failures
Movie
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1962
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Movie Tamiye
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1962
Pig and Goldfish
Movie
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1962
Whirlpool of Love
Movie
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1962
The Crimson Sky
Movie
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1962
Kanpai! Sararīman shokun
Movie
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1961
Ganpā kachō
Movie
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1961
Bandits on the Wind
Movie
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1961
Acchan no bebi gyangu
Movie Midori
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1961
Girl from Hong Kong
Movie Anna Suh
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1961
Akiko
Movie Akiko
- 1960
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1960
Reporters from the Sky
Movie
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1960
New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller
Movie Haruko Momoyama
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1960
The Orientals
Movie
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1960
Ginza Tomboy
Movie Woman in Jail A
