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Release Date:
13 June 1967 (USA)
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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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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
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1 nomination
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YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (Lewis Gilbert, 1967) ***
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Sean Connery | ... | James Bond | |
| Akiko Wakabayashi | ... | Aki | |
| Mie Hama | ... | Kissy Suzuki | |
| Tetsurô Tanba | ... | Tiger Tanaka (as Tetsuro Tanba) | |
| Teru Shimada | ... | Mr. Osato | |
| Karin Dor | ... | Helga Brandt | |
| Donald Pleasence | ... | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | |
| Bernard Lee | ... | M | |
| Lois Maxwell | ... | Miss Moneypenny | |
| Desmond Llewelyn | ... | Q | |
| Charles Gray | ... | Dikko Henderson | |
| Tsai Chin | ... | Ling, Chinese Girl in Hong Kong | |
| Peter Fanene Maivia | ... | Car Driver | |
| Burt Kwouk | ... | Spectre 3 | |
| Michael Chow | ... | Spectre 4 |
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Also Known As:
Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice (UK) (complete title) (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
117 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
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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 |
UK:PG (tv rating) |
Australia:M (TV rating) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
Netherlands:12 |
Norway:16 (original rating) |
Sweden:15 |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:PG (video rating) (1987) |
USA:Approved (original rating) |
USA:GP (re-rating) (1970) |
USA:PG (re-rating) (1994)
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Product placements, brand integrations and promotional tie-ins for this movie include Toyota, particularly the Toyota 2000GT; Stolichnaya Vodka; Sony Electronics, a Sony TV monitor is seen in the Toyota 2000GT; Jack Daniel's Whiskey; Suntory Old Whisky; Rolex Watches, James Bond wears a Rolex Submariner; Dom Perignon Champagne, particularly a Dom Perignon '59; and Martini & Rossi Vermouth.
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Goofs:
Continuity: In the close up shots of Bond and Aki is her car the center of the windshield trim on the top is missing, but in the far shot of her driving the windshield is intact.
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Astronaut - 1st American Spacecraft: Calling CapCom. CapCom, this is Jupiter 16. Do you give a go for fourth orbit.
Houston 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.
Houston CapCom: Okay. Everything looks good from here. You have a go for fourth orbit.
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Astronaut - 1st American Spacecraft: Calling CapCom. CapCom, this is Jupiter 16. Do you give a go for fourth orbit.
Houston 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.
Houston CapCom: Okay. Everything looks good from here. You have a go for fourth orbit.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Now Pay Attention 007! (2000) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
You Only Live Twice
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What is SPECTRE?How does the movie end?
Who sings the title song?
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Solid entry in the James Bond saga Sean Connery's fifth appearance as the secret agent in a row (his last, in fact, until DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER [1971] and, eventually, the non-series entry NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN [1983]) featuring a lovely title tune by John Barry and Leslie Bricusse sung by Nancy Sinatra.
The relocation to Japan for the main action (resulting in impeccable photography courtesy of the renowned Freddie Young, who also contributes an inspired aerial shot of our hero at the center of a rooftop chase/struggle) adds much-needed novelty in the exotic department though characters tend to be less well developed as a consequence. Tetsuro Tamba is imposing enough as his 'sidekick', but the all-important Bond girls have no distinguishing features save for Karin Dor, a typical femme-fatale-ish villainess who manages to trap Bond in an unpiloted plane. Similar expansiveness was shown in Ken Adam's elaborate design of Ernst Stavro Blofeld's headquarters, hidden within the crater of a Japanese volcano; other attention-grabbing devices include Bond being 'killed' in the prologue (thus explaining the title), while he's later given an Oriental 'countenance' and even made to 'marry' a Japanese girl (an irrelevant undercover attempt, as it happens since there is very little interaction between Bond, his local allies and the enemy before the final confrontation in the volcano interior)!
Its plot involving the abduction of space shuttles belonging to the U.S. and Russia, in the hope of provoking a war between the major powers, again plays on the fears of nuclear annihilation palpable during the Cold War era. Incidentally, this is the first time Blofeld himself steps in as chief villain (played with appropriate menace by Donald Pleasence with a handy piranha-filled stream underneath a sliding bridge to replace the pool-sharks from the previous installment, THUNDERBALL [1965]). By the way, Charles Gray (Blofeld in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER) appears in a bit here as Bond's ill-fated contact in Japan! The most prominent gadget invented by Q (the ubiquitous Desmond Llewellyn) in this case is an artillery-equipped mini-chopper employed in a sequence whose filming unfortunately cost an aerial photographer his leg!; there's also a memorably violent brawl which has Bond and his opponent lashing at each other with heavy living-room couches!
The show, then, is climaxed by one of the most spectacular actions bouts in the entire saga for which Bond recruits Tamba's ninjas to fight the minions of SPECTRE; Blofeld, of course, is allowed to go free this time around since he'd be involved in at least three subsequent direct matches with 007. Given that director Gilbert lived up to the challenge of ably following in the footsteps of Terence Young and Guy Hamilton, it was only natural he'd be asked to helm further Bond adventures though, by the time THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977) and MOONRAKER (1979) came along, Roger Moore had firmly established himself in the role.