You Only Live Twice (1967)
The Cast Sean Connery (James Bond), Mie Hama (Kissy Suzuki), Akiki Wakabayashi (Aki), Tetsuro Tamba (Tiger Tanaka), Donald Pleasance (Ernst Staavros Blofeld)
The Supporting Cast Bernard Lee (“M”), Desmond Llewelyn (“Q”), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny), Karen Dor (Helga Brandt), Teru Shimada (Mr. Osato)
Credits Produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman; Directed by Lewis Gilbert; Screenplay by Roald Dahl; Music by John Barry; Title Song performed by Nancy Sinatra; Lyrics by Hal David and Leslie Briscusse; Titles by Maurice Binder; Edited by Thelma Connell;
Mission: Bond must stop the capture of American and Russian manned spacecraft before WW3 ignites, and prove to the world that SPECTRE, and it`s leader, Ernst Stavros Blofeld is behind the whole matter.
Locations covered:Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan
Villain`s Idiosyncrasy:Love of white cat with diamond necklace
Box office:$116 million worldwide ($569,947,339.41 in 1998 dollars)
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Best line: Bond to Helga Brandt, as he takes her dress off: “Oh, the things I do for England.”
Review by Michael Kersey
The film picks up with Bond relaxing in Hong Kong, and as usual, he`s not alone. Bond is in the throws of passion with another beautiful woman when gun toting assassins ambush Bond and shoot him dead. Or do they? In reality , Bond has faked his death in the hopes that some of Bond`s big name opponents will get sloppy, lazy and too cocky with 007 not on the scene anymore. As “M” puts it, this is “the big one” and Bond will need to be undercover more than ever.l
Bond`s “corpse” is buried at sea, jettisoned out of the M1 submarine off the coast of Japan. Bond then attends a sumo wrestling match where he meets up with Japanese SIS Agent Aki. She leads him to his first contact, Dikko Henderson, who is about to tell Bond who he really believes is behind the theft of the spacecraft when a knife wielding assassin puts Dikko out for good.
Bond kills the asssasin and pretends to be him. He runs back to the waiting car and is driven to Osato Chemicals. As it will later be discovered, Osato Chemicals is supplying SPECTRE with liquid nitrogen, a neccessary component in the making of rocket fuel. The very same rocket used to capture American and Soviet spacecraft.
You Only Live Twice is a bigger picture than Goldfinger and Thunderball combined in terms of budget. But bigger isn`t always better, and You Only Live Twice sometimes crumples under the weight of it`s own outlandishness. It`s plot is questionablle, and what there is of it is somewhat formulaic. You feel as if you`ve been there and done that before. Nancy Sinatra turns in one of the more forgetable title songs on record. Another mistake made was the killing off of Aki and replacing her with Kissy Suzuki. While Mrs. Wakabayashi is somewhat wooden in her role as Aki, she`s in the film far longer than Kissy, and is killed off in the film too late for us to get emotionally attached to her replacement.
The best Bond girl in the film by far is Helga Brandt, played by German actress Karen Dor. Her lips and voice drip with a sensual evilness that`s completely captivating. She steals practically every scene she`s in and makes for an excellent successor to Lucianna Paluzzi (Fiona-Thunderball) in the femme fatale department.
There are some truly spectacular action sequences including an elaborate helicopter/car sequence, and the Little Nellie chase. But the film, albeit perhaps unintentionally, relies too much on big explosions and gunfire to cover up the lack of a meaty storyline. And at this point, Connery had had enough of the role. Throughout the filming, he was hounded to death by the press as to whether or not he would return to the role after this film ws complete. As a result, this outing shows Bond a little more wearisome, a little more tired, and a little lackluster. Audiences seemed to agree, as U.S admissions fell nearly 50% compared to Thunderball.