James Bond meets Blofeld for the first time. | You Only Live Twice

Good entertainment, but very little of the original novel is here | You Only Live Twice | Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi

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	• You Only Live Twice Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi MGM (Video & DVD), 2000 average customer review:based on 143 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

[Three-and-a-half] Bond takes it on the chops that year from Flint!

Sean Connery stubs his toe here as a
'reborn' asian-passoff artist to upend
evil 'Bloehard', er, ah, Blofeld. Maybe
this is where that great Police/Detective
Anti-Communist show Hawai'i Five-0, which
co-starred Jack Lord as the orginal Felix
Lighter (not 'LightNer') gots it's sometimes
maddening habit of starring caucasian actors
as orientals! [By The Numbers, To Hell With
Babe Ruth, A Matter of Mutual Concern, Samurai,
others...] No, as much as I really like Sean
Connery, the former Scottish golden gloves box-
er, he's no more convicing as an asian act-ali-
ke as Mark Lenard, and other Hawai'i Five-0 ac-
tors were. It was time for a break from Bond in
that year anyway as this film got sandwiched be-
tween two fine Flint films! Advantage, America!

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James Bond meets Blofeld for the first time.

This is the 5th "James Bond 007" film and starring Sean Connery.
Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn all return in their original roles.
Burt Kwouk (The Pink Panther) returns, this time as SPECTRE #3.
James Bond likes Chinese wiomen too. We find him in bed with one. Suddenly the bed folds up in the wall and the hit man shoots at him. Bond appears to be bleeding and thought dead.
Next we see a burial-at-sea for Bond. Scuba-divers quickly pick him up and open his wraps aboard the British submarine. Bond is very much alive breathing with one of Q's gadgets.
Bond's new mission is to travel to Tokyo, japan. There he is to meet with Mr. Henderson (Charles Gray) who will give Bond some very important information. Quietly and unexpectedly Henderson is killed in front of Bond. With more spy work and obsticles out of the way, the trace finally leads him to Tiger Tanka (Tetsuro Tamba). Mr. Tanka gives Bond the real information he needs and a pleasant, courtesy bath with the Japanese girls. After meeting with Mr. Osama (Teru Shimada), who finds out he is James Bond, he takes him on another wild chase with the trusty Japanese agent, Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi). It all leads to the opponent of James Bond. He will soon be introduced to the evil man with the white cat, Mr. Ernst Blofeld (Donald Pleasence).
Charles Gray returned in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971) for his chance to play Blofeld.
This film was intended to be Sean Connery's last "Bond" film, however after the new "Bond", George Lazenby was seen in the next film ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (1969), they brought back Sean Connery for DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971). That film was his official last. However, he returned 12 years later as "James Bond" in 1983 in an unofficial film made by a different production company (not EON Productions), NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN (1983). That same year, the new "James Bond", Roger Moore appeared in his sixth "Bond" film, OCTOPUSSY (1983).
After YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, James Bond returns in ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (1969).

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Good entertainment, but very little of the original novel is here

"You Only Live Twice" features exotic Japanese locations, a fine Japanese cast (I love the actor who plays Tiger Tanaka), and of course, the great Sean Connery, who will always be THE James Bond. Also in this film's favor is the music--"You Only Live Twice" by Nancy Sinatra is widely acknowledged to be the best of all of the superb James Bond theme music. The script is all right, but it has little in common with the Ian Fleming novel of the same name save the Japanese venue. This is unfortunate because "You Only Live Twice" is among the very finest of all of the James Bond novels and contains some of Ian Fleming's best writing. Further, in my opinion the best James Bond flicks are those which hew faithfully to the Ian Fleming novels, as indeed several of them do (Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, From Russia With Love, and Thunderball come to mind).

Overall, this film does provide excellent entertainment for 007 afficianados, and it holds the viewer's interest throughout. The special effects are great fun. James Bond purists will possibly not like the storyline as well as that of the novel, but still, this one rates four stars because it is, at a minimum, fine entertainment if not to be taken too seriously. That ain't bad.

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Great Bond film

Connery does it again, great Bond movie.

A favorite Bond Movie

This is one of the best James Bond movies. Sean Connery is truly special in this movie. The adventure in Hong Kong demonstrates a unique quality of the "James Bond" series. There is true excitement and intrigue in every scene.

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