Akiko Wakabayashi
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Akiko Wakabayashi | |
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若林 映子 | |
 Akiko Wakabayashi in Akiko (1961) | |
| Born | 13 December 1939 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1958–1971 |
| Known for | You Only Live Twice as Bond girl Aki |
Akiko Wakabayashi (若林 映子, Wakabayashi Akiko, born 13 December 1939) is a retired Japanese actress.
Career
Wakabayashi is best known in English-speaking countries for her role as
Dogora, the Space Monster (1964) and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
(1964), both of which were also released under various other titles. In Ghidorah, she played a mystical princess, who could predict the future and was also a prophetess.
When production of You Only Live Twice began, Wakabayashi was slated to play the role of
What's Up Tiger Lily?
.
In 1971, she made an appearance in an episode of Shirley's World.[2] 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 owing to injuries sustained while making a film.
Selected filmography
- Song for a Bride (1958)
- Josei SOS (1958)
- Yajû shisubeshi (1959)
- Osorubeki hiasobi (1959)
- Le orientali (1960) as Sadako
- Shin santô jûyaku: Ataru mo hakke no maki (1960) as Haruko Momoyama
- Akiko (1961) as Akiko
- Girl from Hong Kong (1961) as Anna Suh
- Yato kaze no naka o hashiru (1961) as Sawa
- Ganba (1961)
- Ai no uzu shio (1962)
- Kurenai no sora (1962)
- King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) as Tamiye
- Gekkyû dorobo (1962)
- Ankokugai no kiba (1962)
- Nippon jitsuwa jidai (1963)
- Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: shirei dai hachigo (1963) as Mie Tsugawa
- Walleyed Nippon (1963) as Nashiko
- The Lost World of Sinbad (1963) as Yaya's maid
- Kon'nichiwa akachan (1964) as Shizuko Nagata
- Dogora, the Space Monster (1964) as Gangster Hamako[3]
- Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kayaku no taru (1964) as Girl Taken at Haneda
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) as Princess of Sergina
- Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (1965, footage used to make What's Up, Tiger Lily?) as Bai-Lan
- The Stranger Within a Woman (1966) as Sayuri Sugimoto
- Kiganjô no bôken (1966) as Spuria, Chamberlain's daughter
- Arupusu no wakadaishô (1966)
- You Only Live Twice (1967) as Aki
- Diamonds of the Andes (1968) as Reiko
References
- ^ "Akiko Wakabayashi and Mie Hama: Bond girls live twice". classicdriver.com. 22 November 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ^ Shoji, Kaori (30 November 2012). "The gentleman in the tux and what he did for Japan". The Japan Times. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ISBN 978-1-4616-7374-3.
External links
- Akiko Wakabayashi at IMDb
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