Outside the building, assassins open fire on Bond before Aki rescues him again. Osato humors Bond, but after their meeting, he orders his secretary, Helga Brandt, to have him killed both are SPECTRE agents. The pair kiss and Bond carries Aki to his bed.īond goes back to Osato Chemicals to meet Osato, masquerading as a potential new buyer. While at Tanaka's spa, Bond meets with Aki again. The stolen documents are examined, and found to include a photograph of the cargo ship Ning-Po, with a microdot message saying the tourist who took the photo was killed as a security precaution. Bond chases her, but falls down a trap door leading to the office of the head of the Japanese secret service, Tiger Tanaka.
After obtaining secret documents, Bond is pursued by armed security, but is rescued by Aki, who flees to a secluded subway station.
Once there, Bond subdues the driver and breaks into the office safe of the company's president, Mr. Bond chases and kills the assailant, taking the assailant's clothing as a disguise, and is driven in the getaway car to Osato Chemicals. Henderson claims to have critical evidence about the rogue craft, but is killed before he can elaborate. To investigate, MI6 operative James Bond is sent to Tokyo, after faking his own death in Hong Kong and being buried at sea from HMS Tenby.īond attends a sumo match where he is approached by Japanese secret service agent Aki, who takes him to meet local MI6 operative Dikko Henderson. The United States suspects it to be the work of the Soviets, but the British suspect Japanese involvement since the spacecraft, after having "swallowed" Jupiter 16, landed in the Sea of Japan. However, it was the first Bond film to see a decline in box-office revenue, owing to the oversaturation of the spy film genre from Bond imitators, including a competing Bond film, Casino Royale, from Columbia Pictures (1967).Īmerican NASA spacecraft Jupiter 16 is hijacked from orbit by an unidentified spaceship. You Only Live Twice received positive reviews and grossed over $111 million in worldwide box office. ĭuring the filming in Japan, it was announced that Sean Connery would retire from the role of Bond, but after one film's absence, he returned in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever and later 1983's non-Eon Bond film Never Say Never Again. SPECTRE is working for the government of an unnamed Asian power, implied to be the People's Republic of China, to provoke war between the superpowers. The film reveals the appearance of Blofeld, who was previously a partially unseen character. Bond travels secretly to a remote Japanese island to find the perpetrators, and comes face-to-face with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. In the film, Bond is dispatched to Japan after American and Soviet crewed spacecraft disappear mysteriously in orbit, each nation blaming the other amidst the Cold War. It is the first James Bond film to discard most of Fleming's plot, using only a few characters and locations from the book as the background for an entirely new story. The screenplay of You Only Live Twice was written by Roald Dahl, and loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name.
It is the first Bond film to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, who later directed the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me and the 1979 film Moonraker, both starring Roger Moore.
You Only Live Twice is a 1967 spy film and the fifth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.