Sean Connery IS James Bond
You Only Live Twice...and "TWICE" is the only way to live!
James Bond is thrust into one of his most amazing adventures in this relentless juggernaut of danger,
passion and non-stop excitement. Sean Connery portrays Agent 007 with the class and sex appeal
befitting film history's original action hero.
A disaster in space pushes mankind toward World War III...and only Agent
007 can prevent it!
After a mysterious rocketship seizes manned space missions from Earth's orbit, suspicions mount and the
world superpowers are hurled to the brink of war. Their only hope rests with James Bond, who races to
stop the space-jackings' true mastermind, Ernst Blofeld (Donald Pleasence). Chief of the evil Spectre
organization, Blofeld is bent on instigating global warfare from his massive headquarters nestled in an
inactive volcano. As the countdown begins, Bond joins forces with luscious Japanese agent Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama) and
scores of Ninja warriors to mount a daring raid on Blofeld's lair and prevent a calamitous world war.
With dazzling high-tech gadgetry that includes Bond's lethal mini-copter (equipped with flame throwers and
air-to-air missiles), "You Only Live Twice" is a magnificent, pull-out-the-stops movie spectacular.
Trivia
Most female voices heard in this film, with the notable exception of
Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny, are dubbed by the same (uncredited) English
actress.
The budget was the then astronomic sum of $9,500,000 ($1,000,000 of
of which was spent by Ken Adam in his crater set).
For the first time the story of a 007 film bears little resemblance
to the novel it is based on.
The face of Ernst Blofeld is revealed for the first time (in the guise
of Donald Pleasence).
The female leads Mie Hama and Akiko Wakabayashi both appeared in Kingukongu
tai Gojira (1962).
Whilst in Japan, Sean Connery and his wife are hounded by the international
press. During news conferences the press insisted on referring to
Connery as James Bond. The last straw comes when local newsmen attempted
to photograph him in a rest room. To
ease the tension the producers remove his contractual obligation to
do one more 007 movie, despite being offered $1 million.
The relevance of "you only live twice" is a poem included in the novel
on which the film is based. In the novel, the poem is written by James
Bond, and runs: "You only live twice /Once when you are born, and once
/ When you look death in the face." Due to a
badly-worded attribution in the front of the book, the poem is sometimes
incorrectly believed to have been written by a Japanese poet called Basho.
Theme Song
© 1967 Danjaq S.A. & United Artists Corporation
Music by John Barry
Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
Sung by Nancy Sinatra
You Only Live Twice or so it seems,
One life for yourself and one for your dreams.
You drift through the years and life seems tame,
Till one dream appears and love is its name.
And love is a stranger who'll beckon you on,
Don't think of the danger or the stranger is gone.
This dream is for you, so pay the price.
Make one dream come true, you only live twice.
And love is a stranger who'll beckon you on,
Don't think of the danger or the stranger is gone.
This dream is for you, so pay the price.
Make one dream come true, you only live twice.
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