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You Only Live Twice
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Overview

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Director:
Lewis Gilbert
Writers:
Roald Dahl (screenplay)
Harold Jack Bloom (additional story material)
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Release Date:
13 June 1967 (USA) more
Tagline:
Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond more
Plot:
Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(15 articles)
Blofeld named best Bond baddie ever
 (From BoxWish. 25 June 2009, 3:47 AM, PDT)

Michael Sheen as Blofeld for Bond 23...?
 (From CinemaSpy. 17 June 2009, 12:10 PM, PDT)

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Who's Out Capturing The Great Satellites Of Space more
US TV Schedule:
Mon. July 1312:00 PMUSA   

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice (UK) (copyright title) (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
117 min
Country:
UK
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Ireland:PG | Iceland:12 | West Germany:12 (re-rating) | West Germany:16 | South Korea:15 | Brazil:14 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:16 (original rating) | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) | USA:Approved (original rating) | USA:GP (re-rating) (1970) | USA:PG (re-rating) (1994)
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Danjaq more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The "Little Nellie" aerial sequences were not shot in Japan because Japanese Law forbade the firing of rockets in the air. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: During the opening movie sequence (tracking station) "Hawaii" can be heard calling "Jupiter 16" - this is contrary to proper protocol. Tracking stations only relay communications between Houston and the capsule. To reduce confusion during missions NASA capsule communications ("CapCom") was through one individual (always an astronaut) at NASA-Houston ("Houston, we've had a problem here"). One exception to this was during the launch phase when Cape Canaveral ("Launch") was the only communications point. This protocol is still in use today. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Astronaut - 1st American Spacecraft: Calling CapCom. CapCom, this is Jupiter 16. Do you give a go for fourth orbit.
Hawaii CapCom: CapCom to Jupiter 16. Can you confirm O2 pressure is within limit.
Astronaut - 1st American Spacecraft: Roger. Everything looks good in the environmental control system.
Hawaii CapCom: Okay. Everything looks good from here. You have a go for fourth orbit.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Licensed to Love and Kill (1979) more
Soundtrack:
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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Who's Out Capturing The Great Satellites Of Space, 15 May 2009
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Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

You Only Live Twice was the fifth James Bond film with Sean Connery and the basic premise of it kind of dismays me. After four films with Bond battling SPECTRE and foiling their evil plans, you would think that the powers would consider SPECTRE's involvement in any kind of dirty business on this globe.

But that's not what happens here. SPECTRE under the leadership of Donald Pleasance as Ernest Stavro Blofeld has developed its own space technology, courtesy of Japanese industrialist Teru Shimada. They've set up shop on a small Japanese volcanic island inside the crater of a dead volcano that has a retractable dome covering like the Rogers Center in Toronto. And they're going about the business capturing US and Soviet satellites right out of orbit.

The tone of this film is set in the beginning at that conference where the sides are accusing each other of heating up the Cold War. But Her Majesty's government says cool down boys, we're sending our best man in. My problem is that I can't believe the two superpowers wouldn't think that SPECTRE's involvement isn't a possibility all on their own.

But with Sean Connery on the scene do you doubt that he will bring the truth out and the culprits to his own brand of Bondian justice?

I've seen all the Connery Bond films and You Only Live Twice is the weakest of the bunch. Not to say it doesn't have its moments. My favorite is Connery in Little Nell, the airborne equivalent of his Ashton-Martin special car where Connery dispatches some SPECTRE sent helicopters. He also has a nice fight scene with Ronald Rich who is Pleasance's bodyguard. But next to Odd Job from Goldfinger, Rich was a ham and egger.

You Only Live Twice has Connery collaborating with the Japanese Secret Service in the person of Tetsuro Tamba and a couple Oriental lovelies in Mie Hama and Akika Wakabayashi. He also gets to deal with Karin Dor, an assassin from SPECTRE all now Bond girls in good standing. Tamba has an army of Ninjas, as skilled with automatic weaponry as they are with martial arts. Had this film been done a few years later, I could have seen Bruce Lee collaborating with James Bond.

Now that would really have been a memorable film.

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