fiction.wikisort.org - Actor

Search / Calendar

Akiko Wakabayashi (若林 映子, Wakabayashi Akiko, born December 13, 1939) is a retired Japanese actress.

Akiko Wakabayashi
若林 映子
Akiko Wakabayashi in Akiko (1961)
Born (1939-12-13) 13 December 1939 (age 82)
Ōta, Tokyo, Japan
OccupationActress
Years active1958–1971
Known forYou Only Live Twice as Bond girl Aki

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 Dagora, 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 Kissy Suzuki while 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 playing the smaller part of Kissy and Wakabayashi playing the larger part of Suki. At her suggestion, the character of Suki was renamed Aki. They had acted together in King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) and Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (1965),[1] from which footage was recut to make Woody Allen's 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



References


  1. "Akiko Wakabayashi and Mie Hama: Bond girls live twice". classicdriver.com. 22 November 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  2. Shoji, Kaori (30 November 2012). "The gentleman in the tux and what he did for Japan". The Japan Times. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  3. Stuart Galbraith IV (16 May 2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. pp. 212–213. ISBN 978-1-4616-7374-3.



На других языках

[de] Akiko Wakabayashi

Akiko Wakabayashi (jap. 若林映子 Wakabayashi Akiko; * 26. August 1941 in Tokio) ist eine japanische Schauspielerin, die international vor allem durch ihre Rolle der Aki im James-Bond-Film Man lebt nur zweimal bekannt wurde. Darüber hinaus drehte sie viele Filme in ihrer Heimat Japan, wobei vor allem die Monster-Filme der Tōhō-Studios wie etwa X 3000 – Fantome gegen Gangster und Ghidrah – The Three-Headed Monster zu nennen sind.
- [en] Akiko Wakabayashi

[ru] Вакабаяси, Акико

Акико Вакабаяси (яп. 若林映子; род. 13 декабря 1939[1], Ота) — японская киноактриса.


Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.

Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.

2019-2025
WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии