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Akiko Wakabayashi
is a retired Japanese actress. 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 K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiko (film)
''Akiko'' is a 1961 Cinema of Italy, Italian comedy film written and directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico. Plot In Rome, Mrs. Ottavia Colasanto has not had news of her husband since he went to Japan eighteen years ago. She is considered practically a widow. One day, a very beautiful young Japanese girl arrives. She notifies the Colasanto family that she is the biological daughter of Ottavia's (presumably) deceased husband. Cast *Akiko Wakabayashi as Akiko *Pierre Brice as Duilio *Marisa Merlini as Ottavia Colasanto *Memmo Carotenuto as Armando Piffero * as Anita Colasanto *Valeria Fabrizi as Tosca *Andrea Checchi as Sor Egisto *Marcello Paolini as Serse Colasanto *Giacomo Furia as Peppe, aka "Er Campanaro" *Giuseppe Chinnici as the commissioner * as the referee in the ring *Paolo Ferrari (actor), Paolo Ferrari as "Terzo Braccio" *Paolo Panelli as Felice *Carlo Taranto * as little boy asking for a cigarette * *Ettore Zamperini * * * References External links * 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley's World
''Shirley's World'' is a television series aired first by ABC during the 1971–72 television season. The sitcom was co-produced by the British ITC Entertainment and American producer Sheldon Leonard, with English producer-director Ray Austin; it starred Shirley MacLaine as a photojournalist and John Gregson as her editor at ''World Illustrated'' magazine. Immediately after the ABC broadcasts ended, the seventeen-episode series was aired in its entirety on ITV in the United Kingdom. Cast and characters *Shirley MacLaine as Shirley Logan * John Gregson as Dennis Croft Episode list Filmed on location and at Pinewood Studios England Production # is the order of the Network DVD. References External links Comedy Guide – ''Shirley's World''at bbc.co.uk BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service. It is a large network of websites including such high-profile sites as BBC News and Sport, the on-demand video and radio services branded BBC iP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actresses From Tokyo
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 Births
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Third Reich *** Jews are forbidden to work with Germans. *** The Youth Protection Act was passed on April 30, 1938 and the Working Hours Regulations came into effect. *** The Jews name change decree has gone into effect. ** The rest of the world *** In Spain, it becomes a duty of all young women under 25 to complete compulsory work service for one year. *** First edition of the Vienna New Year's Concert. *** The company of technology and manufacturing scientific instruments Hewlett-Packard, was founded in a garage in Palo Alto, California, by William (Bill) Hewlett and David Packard. This garage is now considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. *** Sydney, in Australia, records temperature of 45 ˚C, the highest record for the city. *** Philipp Etter took over as Swiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stranger Within A Woman
is a 1966 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on the 1951 novel ''The Thin Line'' by Edward Atiyah. Plot Isao and Masako Toshiro are what looks like a happily married middle-class couple with two children. One day, Sayuri, wife of close friend Ryukichi Sugimoto, is found strangled. As it turns out, Sayuri had an affair with another man. Isao, struggling with his conscience, confesses to Masako that he was the man Sayuri had the affair with, and was responsible for her death, although inadvertently. To preserve the family's reputation and sheltered life, Masako begs her husband to keep his deed a secret. Isao also confesses to Ryukichi, who slaps him in return, but refrains from bringing charges against him. When Isao eventually announces to turn himself in to the police, which he sees as the only way to find peace and maintain his personal honour, Masako poisons him with a soporific. His death is classified as suicide. Some time later, while taking a walk o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
''What's Up, Tiger Lily?'' is a 1966 American comedy film directed by Woody Allen in his feature-length directorial debut. Allen took a Japanese spy film, '' International Secret Police: Key of Keys'' (1965), and overdubbed it with completely original dialogue that had nothing to do with the plot of the original film. By putting in new scenes and rearranging the order of existing scenes, he completely changed the tone of the film from a James Bond clone into a comedy about the search for the world's best egg salad recipe. During post-production, Allen's original one-hour television version was expanded without his permission to include additional scenes from ''International Secret Police: A Barrel of Gunpowder'', the third film in the International Secret Police series, and musical numbers by the band the Lovin' Spoonful. The band released a soundtrack album. Louise Lasser, who was married to Allen at the time, served as one of the voice actors for the "new" dialogue soundtrack, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogora
is a 1964 Japanese ''kaiju'' film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Studios, the film stars Yosuke Natsuki, Nobuo Nakamura, Hiroshi Koizumi, and Akiko Wakabayashi, along with American actor Robert Dunham. The film tells the story of a huge jellyfish-like carbon-eating creature from space that attacks Japan. ''Dogora'' was released theatrically in Japan on August 11, 1964. It was released directly to television in the United States in 1966 by American International Television, under the title ''Dagora, the Space Monster''. Plot When several TV satellites launched by the Electric Wave Laboratory go missing above Japan, people later discover that they collided with unidentified protoplasmic "space cells" of unknown origin. Meanwhile, Inspector Komai's investigation of unexplained disappearances of diamonds across the globe leads him to the crystallographer Dr. Munakata. While tracking down self-proclaimed diam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost World Of Sinbad
is a 1963 Japanese drama action film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film stars Toshiro Mifune and Mie Hama. at Time Out The film is often confused with the theme of fantasy instead of '''' but, the book ''Toho Special Effects All Monster Encyclopedia'' specifically identifies it in the genre of ''tokusatsu'' fantasy. It was also released as ''Samurai Pirate'' in the United States. Cast * Toshiro Mifune as Sukezaemon Naya *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl From Hong Kong
''Girl from Hong Kong'' (german: Bis zum Ende aller Tage) is a 1961 West German romance film directed by Franz Peter Wirth and starring Hanns Lothar, Helmut Griem and Akiko Wakabayashi.Schrader & Winkler p. 175 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Berthel and Johannes Ott. Cast * Hanns Lothar as Kuddel Bratt * Helmut Griem as Glenn Dierks * Akiko Wakabayashi as Anna Suh * Carla Hagen as Martha * Ursula Lillig as Geesche * Carl Lange as Knut Ohlsen * Peter Carsten as Volkert * Eva Pflug as Gudrun * Maria Martinsen * Klaus Kindler as Fleez * Wilhelm Groothe * Li Min as Lili Kwong * Hela Gruel * Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum * Peter Thom * Herta Fahrenkrog * Helga Feddersen * Erika Tweer * Willem Fricke Willem () is a Dutch and West FrisianRienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 158. masculine given name. The name is Germanic, and can be seen as the Dutch equivalent of the name William in English, ... * Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song For A Bride
is a 1958 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda. Cast Release ''Song for a Bride'' was released on February 11, 1958. Reception In a retrospective review, Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski declared the film "one of Honda's most thoroughly entertaining film" that "showcases Honda's flair for comedy in ways similar to ''Mothra'' and ''King Kong vs. Godzilla is a 1962 Japanese ''kaiju'' film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd, it is the third film in both the ''Godzilla'' and ''King Kong'' franchises, as well as the first T ...''" had." References ;Bibliography * External links * http://www.ishirohonda.com/works/195802-sanju/195802-sanju.shtml * Japanese black-and-white films 1958 films Films directed by Ishirō Honda Films produced by Sanezumi Fujimoto Films scored by Masaru Sato 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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