You Only Live Twice
1967
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Career. Wakabayashi is best known in English-speaking countries for her role as Bond girl Aki in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice.Before this, she had made many films in her native Japan, especially Toho Studio's monster films, such as Dogora, the Space Monster (1964) and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964), both of which were also released under various other titles.
Akiko Wakabayashi was born on August 26, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan. During her work in movies, she became one of Japan's most popular actresses of their cinema's "Golden Age", ranking with actresses Kumi Mizuno and Mie Hama.One of her first films was Akiko (1961), which was named after her.Interestingly, the movie title shares both her real and character names.
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Akiko Wakabayashi. Actress: You Only Live Twice. Akiko Wakabayashi was born on August 26, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan. During her work in movies, she became one of Japan's most popular actresses of their cinema's "Golden Age", ranking with actresses Kumi Mizuno and Mie Hama. One of her first films was Akiko (1961), which was named after her. Interestingly, the movie title shares both her real and ...
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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 ...
You Only Live Twice: Directed by Lewis Gilbert. With Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsurô Tanba. James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States.
Biography: Best known for her role of Aki in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice and Princess Selina Salno in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964), Wakabayashi was a prominent actress near the end of the "Golden Age" of Japanese cinema.
BIOGRAPHY Born on the 26th of August 1941, Akiko Wakabayashi began her film career in 1958 with "Hanayome Sanjuso" ("Song of the Bride") and quickly rose to stardom in Japan. Wakabayashi made her break in the film industry during the Golden Age of Japanese cinema - along with the likes of Kumi Mizuno and Mie Hama whose stunning looks brought them success in the film business.
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