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You Only Live Twice

Year:
Duration:
117 min
Genres:
Action | Adventure | Thriller
IMDB rate:
6.9
Director:
Lewis Gilbert
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 2 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 1967-06-13
Filming Locations: Nakano Shimbashi station, Marunouchi Line, Nakano-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Earnings
Budget: $9,500,000
Gross: $43,084,787 (USA)$68,500,000 (Worldwide)
Cast
Actor
Character
Donald Pleasence
Donald Pleasence
You Only Live Twice
Sean Connery
James Bond
Akiko Wakabayashi
Aki
Mie Hama
Kissy
Tetsurô Tanba
Tiger Tanaka
Teru Shimada
Mr. Osato
Karin Dor
Helga Brandt
Bernard Lee
'M'
Lois Maxwell
Miss Moneypenny
Desmond Llewelyn
'Q'
Charles Gray
Henderson
Tsai Chin
Ling, Chinese Girl in Hong Kong
Burt Kwouk
Spectre 3
Michael Chow
Spectre 4
Ronald Rich
Hans, Blofeld's Bodyguard
Jeanne Roland
Bond's Masseuse
David Toguri
Assassin in Bedroom
John Stone
Submarine Captain
Norman Jones
Astronaut - 1st American Spacecraft
Paul Carson
Astronaut - 1st American Spacecraft
Laurence Herder
Astronaut - Russian Spacecraft
Richard Graydon
Astronaut - Russian Spacecraft
Bill Mitchell
Astronaut - 2nd American Spacecraft
George Roubicek
Astronaut - 2nd American Spacecraft
Anthony Ainley
Hong Kong Policeman #2 (uncredited)
Vic Armstrong
Ninja #1 (uncredited)
Robin Bailey
Foreign Secretary (uncredited)
George Baker
NASA Engineer (uncredited)
David Bauer
American Diplomat (uncredited)
Ed Bishop
Hawaii CapCom (uncredited)
Cecil Cheng
Control Room Technician (uncredited)
Anthony Chinn
SPECTRE Guard
Hans De Vries
Control Room Technician (uncredited)
Moris Farhi
Control Room Technician (uncredited)
Jonathan Hanson
Control Room Technician (uncredited)
Masaaki Hatsumi
Photographic Assistant to Tanaka on Train (uncredited)
David Healy
Houston Radar Operator (uncredited)
Sylvana Henriques
Japanese Fan Dancer (Silhouette) in Title Sequence (uncredited)
Tony Hill
Diver rescuing Bond (uncredited)
Andy Ho
Control Room Technician (uncredited)
Stephen Hubay
Control Room Technician (uncredited)
Robert Hutton
President's Aide (uncredited)
Patrick Jordan
Hong Kong Policeman #1 (uncredited)
Hisako Katakura
Blofeld's Financier (uncredited)
Michael Kennedy
Control Room Technician (uncredited)
Alexander Knox
American President (uncredited)
Kristopher Kum
Control Room Technician (uncredited)
Robert Lee
2nd Chinese VIP (uncredited)
Mai Ling
Bath Girl #2 (uncredited)
Richard Marner
Russian Spacecraft Communicator (uncredited)
Kikko Matsuoka
Diver Girl (uncredited)
Basil Moss
British Navy Officer on Submarine (uncredited)
George Murcell
Russian Diplomat (uncredited)
Willy Myers
Diver rescuing Bond (uncredited)
Yasuko Nagazumi
Bath Girl #4 (uncredited)
Bill Nagy
USAF General at Pentagon (uncredited)
James Payne
Man at Typewriter in Office (uncredited)
Robert Rietty
Tiger Tanaka
Shane Rimmer
Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited)
Sadanoyama
Japanese Sumo Wrestler (uncredited)
William Sylvester
Pentagon Official (uncredited)
Peter Taylor
Control Room Technician (uncredited)
Francesca Tu
Osato's Secretary
Burnell Tucker
Hawaii Control Room Technician (uncredited)
Zsolt Vadaszffy
Control Room Technician (uncredited)
Nikki Van der Zyl
Kissy Suzuki
Jeffry Wickham
Russian Control Room Officer (uncredited)
Brian Wilde
1st Policeman (uncredited)
Yee-Wah Yang
Bath Girl #3 (uncredited)
Tommy Yapp
Control Room Technician (uncredited)
Ric Young
Chinese Agent (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
Retired US Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Russhon acted as a technical advisor, military liaison, helped set up a product-placement deal with Sony, attended the location scout, assisted with obtaining important transportation means and advised on the logistics for working in Japan.
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Actor Tetsurô Tanba (Tanaka) later became a religious leader in Japan.
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Ken Adam's volcano set was constructed at Pinewood Studios outside London and consisted of a movable helicopter platform, a working monorail system, a launch pad and a full scale rocket mock-up that could simulate lift-off. 700 tonnes of structural steel and 200 miles of tubular steel were used. Adam once said that the set used more steel than that used for the London Hilton Hotel. The set also used 200 tonnes of plaster, 500,000 tubular couplings, 8,000 railway ties for the monorail and over 250,000 square yards of canvas to protect the set from the weather were all employed in the construction of the set which cost just over $1 million.
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Goofs
The ninjas outside the crater are armed with Spanish Star Z-45 submachine guns and Thompsons. When they are inside the volcano, they mostly use British Sterling and Sten submachine guns. This is because the exterior shots were filmed in Spain, while the volcano set was in Pinewood, UK.
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In the helicopter battle scene, all of the copters are flying quickly through the sky (obviously.) However in the shots where enemy copters are destroyed, they are obviously stationary.
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Representatives from the UK, US and USSR meet each other in Norway. Normally, representatives use vehicles produced in their own country, but the three cars in front of the facility are two Plymouth and one Cadillac - all American-made.
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Quotes
Blofeld's Financier: Our agreement states quite clearly that no money should be paid until war has broken out between Russia and the United States.
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Aki: You wouldn't touch that horrible woman, would you?
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Tiger Tanaka: It can save your life, this cigarette.
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Faq
Q
What is Blofeld's plan?
A
Blofeld hijacks an American space capsule, for which the Americans blame the Soviets. He then hijacks a Soviet space capsule, for which the Soviets blame the Americans. Finally, he intends to hijack another American space capsule, only this time, he will blow up the capsule, along with his own rocket, leading the Americans to believe that the Soviets have retaliated. After the Americans and the Soviet annihilate each other in the war that will surely follow, another country will step forward as the new world power. This other country is unnamed, but two of its agents are seen talking with Blofeld and are presumed to be Chinese. They have supplied SPECTRE with equipment ("I compliment you on your equipment." says Blofeld) and are paying SPECTRE to use it ("I compliment you on the way you handle it." the agent replies). Blofeld asks for $100 million in gold (dollars presumably being worthless after WWIII) in advance, despite agreeing that SPECTRE would only get paid after war broke out.
Q
What exotic places does Bond visit in this movie?
A
Unlike most Bond movies, James does not do a lot of globetrotting in You Only Live Twice. In the precredit opener, he is "murdered" while in Hong Kong, and his body is buried at sea. It's all a ruse, however, so that he can go undercover in order to learn who is hijacking both American and Soviet space capsules. Since they have radar evidence that the hijacking rocket landed in the Sea of Japan, Bond is sent to Tokyo to make contact with the local MI6 operative, Dikko Henderson (Charles Gray), and Japanese secret service leader "Tiger" Tanaka. Tanaka sends Bond to the docks in Kobe to look over the Ning-po, where he learns that Osato Chemicals is about to ship a large supply of LOX (liquid oxygen) to Shanghai, China. After learning that SPECTRE is behind the hijackings and may be operating from the small island of Matsu, located somewhere between Kobe and Shanghai, Bond has his appearance altered to make him look Japanese, and he is sent to Matsu where he is "married" to Kissy Suzuki, a local girl who is also a Japanese secret service operative. It becomes their job to more closely investigate the island.
Q
Why does Tanaka keep referring to Bond as Bond-san?
A
Adding -san to the end of a person's name is a sign of respect in Japanese. It is much like using "Mister" in English. If your name is Richard Harris, for example, you might be referred to as "Harris-san."
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