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You Only Live Twice
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- Adventure
- Crime/detective
- 1967
- Lewis Gilbert
- 116 mins
- PG
Summary
Spy adventure starring Sean Connery and Donald Pleasence. When international crime syndicate Spectre captures an American spaceship in the hope of starting the Third World War, James Bond is dispatched to Japan to face arch villain Blofeld, the man behind the evil scheme.
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A star rating of 5 out of 5.
Andrew Collins
This is one of the best of the Sean Connery Bond films, despite the actor's desire to quit the franchise. Having faked his own death, agent 007 is sent to Japan where he goes native and "marries" a local girl, all the while trying to prevent World War Three following the disappearance of US and Russian spacecraft. The film has one of the all-time great screen villains in Donald Pleasence's cat-stroking Blofeld, and director Lewis Gilbert keeps the pace up, while the script (co-written by Roald Dahl) is suitably arch. But this is really production designer Ken Adam's triumph: the secret volcanic base, where the film's explosive climax unfolds, remains definitive and much parodied.
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rolenameJames BondSean ConneryErnst Stavro BlofeldDonald PleasenceAkiAkiko WakabayashiTiger TanakaTetsuro TambaKissy SuzukiMie HamaOsatoTeru ShimadaHelga BrandtKarin DorMiss MoneypennyLois Maxwell"Q"Desmond LlewelynHendersonCharles GrayChinese girlTsai Chin "M"Bernard LeeUS PresidentAlexander KnoxSpectre 3Burt KwoukPentagon officialWilliam SylvesterPresidential aideRobert Hutton
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rolenameDirectorLewis Gilbert
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1967-06-13
Languages
English | English | Russian | Japanese
Guidance
violence.
Available on
video, DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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