Akiko Wakabayashi played Aki in You Only Live Twice and had appeared in Japanese films including King Kong vs Godzilla. She retired from acting shortly after the Bond film, at twenty-eight, following a car accident.
Akiko Wakabayashi1967 Lewis Gilbert Bond film with Connery in Japan facing Blofeld in a hollow volcano. You Only Live Twice is Lewis Gilbert's 1967 British spy film loosely adapting Ian Fleming's 1964 novel.
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