# The James Bond Film Festival.  Part 5: You Only Live Twice

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[The James Bond Film Festival. Part 1: Dr. No](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=194271)  
[The James Bond Film Festival. Part 2: From Russia with Love](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=195426)  
[The James Bond Film Festival. Part 3: Goldfinger](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=197003)  
[The James Bond Film Festival. Part 4: Thunderball](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=198872)

1967 was smack in the middle of the Space Age. Project Gemini had just ended, and the Apollo Program was just starting. Television brought us such fare as _I Dream of Jeanie_ (astronauts dealing with a genie), _It’s about time_ (astronauts lost in the prehistoric era), _Lost in Space_, and of course _Star Trek_. Cars of the era were “themed”. My dad had a '66 Ford Galaxie 500 whose taillights looked like the back of futuristic rocket engines, and the interior was trimmed in a similar manner. Telstar had been launched a few years before, and technology was improving by leaps and bounds. In spite of the unpleasantness around the world, not the least of which was the war in Vietnam, it was a forward-looking time.

Such is the world in which _You Only Live Twice_ takes place; so naturally, it had a space theme. In a nutshell, SPECTRE is intercepting U.S. and Russian spacecraft and taking them to a remote island in Japan. An Asian country is trying to start a war between the Superpowers, and SPECTRE is intercepting the spacecraft to get the Russians and the Americans to start shooting at each other. Bond must stop SPECTRE before the Americans launch another rocket.

_You Only Live Twice_ is the fifth outing for Sean Connery and the series, and IMO it is a poor one. The concept is far-fetched, but in the context of Bond films it’s okay. Where it really falls down is in Lewis Gilbert’s direction. There are things that just bug me.

In the beginning, Bond is “killed” by assassins in Hong Kong. He is buried at sea – very close to the shore, and in shallow water. This just wouldn’t happen. His bagged “corpse” is extremely stiff, and looks for all the world like a movie prop that is supposed to resemble a bag with a body in it instead of looking like a body in a bag. There is even a hollow “thunk” when the “feet” hit the deck of the submarine on which our hero was taken.

And then there is the death of Henderson (Charles Grey). He is about to tell Bond who he thinks is behind the spacejackings when he is stabbed in the back from behind a screen. He just stopped talking. No cry of pain, no grimmace, no blood. He’s dead, that’s all. Not a very effective death scene, if you ask me.

I had always though that Bond preferred his martinis “shaken, not stirred”. And yet Henderson had made a point of saying “stirred, not shaken”. Maybe I’m wrong, but if I’m right then someone should have done a little research.

And speaking of research, how could Gilbert not have caught the actor playing a mission control specialist for NASA (who was based in Houston) pronoucing Houston as “Hoo-ston”? I only heard Houston mispronounced once, but there it was.

Bond teams with “Tiger” Tanaka (Tetsuro Tamba) to search the islands for SPECTRE’s hideout. Q (Desmond Llewellyn) arrives with one of the most famous of the Bond vehicles – an autogyro named “Little Nellie”. “Little Nellie” is armed of course, as Q points out. There are two air-to-air missiles under the cockpit, and Q helpfully points out that they fire at a rate of “sixty per minute”. That may be true, but hardly useful when you only have two missiles!

Blofeld (Donald Pleasence) confronts Helga Brandt (Karen Dor) and Mr. Osato (Teru Shimada) [Doesn’t “osato” mean “sugar” in Japanese? Just curious.] about their failure to kill Bond – who is supposed to have already been killed. As evidence that they are really up against Bond, Blofeld shows them an x-ray photograph of a Walther PPK pistol and declairs that “only one person uses this kind of pistol”. Sorry, but everyone knows that the PPK was a very popular pocket pistol for decades.

Blofeld’s lair is hidden inside of a volcano. Okay, Bond villains must have impressive lairs. It’s in their contract. But it really stretched the imagination to believe this particular one.

Bond must get close to the island without arousing suspicion, so he is made up to look Japanese. He didn’t look remotely Japanese. It was laughable. If I were directing a major motion picture I would have either made the make-up convincing or I would have said, “This isn’t working. Let’s do it another way.”

The monitors that showed the spacecraft: Where were the cameras? How could CAPCOM have nice profile shots of the ships without having a camera ship nearby? Okay, this is a minor nitpick and most people probably wouldn’t notice or care; but still…

There are a some similarities between _You Only Live Twice_ and _Dr. No_. For example, Bond infiltrates Dr. No’s laboratory by stealing an anti-contamination suit from a henchman. In _You Only Live Twice_ he infiltrates Blofeld’s launch area by stealing a pressure suit from a henchman. And Blofeld’s lair is destroyed in a manner very simlar to Dr. No’s lair. I think there was a little too much recycling in this one, and the screenwriter should have been more innovative.

But there are still some good points to this film. For one thing, we get a rare look at Toyota’s prototype [GT2000](http://www.goolsbee.org/ne2003/track-day/ne2003-Pages/Image62.html), of which only three were made (one converted from a coupé). That was a nice-looking car, and it would have been cool if Toyota had persued the idea. The only other Japanese sports car I can think of was the Datsun Fairlady 1600 which predated even the venerable MGB.

“Little Nellie” was fun, and I don’t remember ever seeing an all-helicopter dogfight to rival the battle scene in _You Only Live Twice_.

The ninja raid on the volcano-lair was spectacular. It was epic in the same way as the underwater fight in [Thunderball](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=198872). Great visuals there, with the ninjas rapelling down their ropes.

Unfortunately the nifty bits don’t outweigh the poor direction and the remarkably implausible volcano lair.

Next week: _On Her Majesty’s Secret Service_.

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-5-you-only-live-twice/191090/2 "2003-07-26T16:34:46Z")

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(I can only add my simple comments, since I already did my own “James Bond Film Festival” earlier this year.)

I must say that Nancy Sinatra’s theme for this film is one of my favorites, as it is such a stretch for the series.

I must say the Evil Plan® in this film is one of my favorites since it seems so darn stupid.

HOW TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD OR START A WAR OR SOMETHING IN 5 EASY STEPS

1. Create a group of Spaceship-Eating Spaceships (SESs).
2. Paint SESs in the colors of U.S. and Soviet spacecraft.
3. Use Soviet SES to eat American spacecraft, hold crew hostage.
4. Use American SES to eat Soviet spacecraft, hold crew hostage.
5. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until war ensues.
6. Make sure nobody foils your evil plan.
7. Let the money roll in/control the world/destroy the world/whatever.

**HISTORICAL FOOTNOTE** : 1967 was the first year James Bond would battle James Bond. Two months before the release of _You Only Live Twice_, Columbia Pictures released Charles Feldman’s _Casino Royale_. Though a very strange hodge-podge (and why shouldn’t it be? It had five directors), it is now a cult classic (the character of Evelyn Tremble\* seems to be the inspiration for Austin Powers) and actually caused a riot at a preview screening. I love the opening credits by Richard Williams (who later supervised animation for _Roger Rabbit_ while wasting most of his life on some film about a thief and a cobbler).

\*“Isn’t that a girl’s name?”  
“No. It’s my name.”

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I have nothing to add besides how hot Tetsuro Tamba is (thank you, I had gotten her name). She’s my favorite Bond girl.

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Tetsuro Tamba was “Tiger” Tanaka. Akiko Wakabayashi played “Aki”, the girl in the GT2000.

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This one’s not one of my favorites. Connery seems to be past his peak (for Bond, at least) and is all but phoning it in for this movie. If one didn’t know the historical context as you’ve described it, it would seem embarrasingly dated. The scenes at the beginning with the diplomats arguing and the Americans convinced the nasty Russkies are responsible is almost funny now, but I’m sure it was different in 1967. Not to mention the repetitive use of the same B-52 stock footage at the climax.

You never watch the volcano scene the same way after seeing the “Simpsons” send-up of it with Hank Scorpio. Once it starts blowing up, the models used become fairly obvious. And am I the only one who thinks it stupid to send in _ninjas_ against guys with machine guns? Sure, once they make it inside, a few of them kick ass, like that dude with the sword who kills like 10 guys at once. But 75% of them just get gunned down.

So why the decision to finally reveal the “mastermind,” Blofeld? Maybe once Pleasance signed on, the writers said, “well, now we have to show what he looks like!”

I don’t attribute the scene with Henderson screwing up Bond’s drink to bad research or writing. Maybe it was _supposed_ to be that way, for a comic effect? Or maybe he was actually one of the future Blofeld (cf. _Diamonds Are Forever_) body doubles?

Several minor actors went on to have new roles in _Diamonds Are Forever_ and _Spy who Loved Me_. In fact, the British diplomat at the opening went on to found the Foundation for Law And Government in the mid-80s.

Finally, best line/visual gag–  
Osato: Cigarettes are very bad for your chest, Mr. Fisher.  
Brandt, handing Bond a drink: Mr. Osato believes in a healthy chest.

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**You Only Lve Twice** was the first Bond film I ever saw (it was a re-release), so I’m willing to ut it some slack. Plus, I love things Japanese. Nevertheless, in hindsight and with my knowledge now of the other films and novels, I can see how bad it truly was.

It was the first Bond film to depart noticeably from the fleming novel – in fact, the connection are very faint. It also came after the longest hiatus to date between films. I suspect this had something to do with Fleming’s death. His friend Roald Dahl wrote the script for this one, apparently virtually from scratch. He described th process in an article in **Playboy**.

Revealing Blofeld’s face was appaently a big deal. Famous Monsters of Filmland devoted a whole article to it at the time.

Incidentally, one of the NASA technicians (maybe the one who mispronounced “Houston”) went n to play Klaus Hergeshimer in **Diamonds are Forevr** The Bond series kept recycling its actors.

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Best line in the movie goes to Helga: “Mr. Osato says a healthy chest is very important,” as she straightens up and points her very pointy boobs at Bond. She could have put someone’s eye out!

All the “Bond-san” 's were cracking me up, for some reason.

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Not one of my favorites…not counting the Dr Evil look of Pleasance (he was working with what he had as he was the last minute replacement for a terribly miscast Jan Werich as Blofield - the guy looked like someones sleepy uncle).  
[http://www.geocities.com/pleasence/film/youonly/werich.jpg](http://www.geocities.com/pleasence/film/youonly/werich.jpg) - if you never seen the stills of him. I always liked Charles Grey anyway…he gave Blofield a suave greasy evilness (and he was great in Diamonds are Forever) and I consider him the better of the Blofields.

-The general dorky factor of the Evil Plan. Way Way implausible to the point of being the ultimate setup for Mike Myers to use for fodder. And who can fear a dark pastel blue ninja anyway? They needed some Shaw Brothers around to make the fights more believble…I am surprised someone did not have them yelling “JUDO CHOP” each time they hit someone in the final big fight.

- Let’s not also forget the hilarious plan to make Connery look like a Japanese (cmon…hell I am a 6 foot Irish guy and I look more Japanese).

-The Japanese scenes are pretty much on target with that “men come first” jazz…specially during the time. Dates the movie almost to a T. Not that I would mind a bath like that. Lots of cute Japanese girls bouncing around in cute bathing suits (woot!)

-Notice the big “SONY” prominence on the closed circuit camera in the car? Wonder if they were trying to get something working like that back then?

Though I do give it this…has one of the original and better ways of ridding Bond of meddling henchman. Picking up a car full of them and dropping them 300 feet into the Pacific sure beats a simple shooting I suppose.

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> The Japanese scenes are pretty much on target with that “men come first” jazz.

“Women come second”  
“Or sometimes not at all!”  
[laughter]

Was that in _Austin Powers_?

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> I am surprised someone did not have them yelling “JUDO CHOP”

That sounds very familiar. Where’s it from?

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Just wondering…

Am I putting too much in the OPs of these threads? Should I just say what they’re about instead of going into so much detail?

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## quote:

## Am I putting too much in the OPs of these threads?

Nah

You give a good intro and your own ideas on the movie. Very much a roundtable here for us Bondophiles. I think you are doing fine.

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## I am surprised someone did not have them yelling “JUDO CHOP”

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## That sounds very familiar. Where’s it from?

Actually from the very same Austin Powers. Mike decided to add a bit of joking in his fight scenes with the dig on the sometime hokey fighting in the Bond films. Listen whenever he fights in the Austin movies, he is yelling JUDO CHOP and JUDO KICK each time. Quite funny when he is trying to get through a bunch of baddies because he is yelling it over and over.

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I’m still waiting for them to re-release the rest of them on DVD. I didn’t have a player the first time around.

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What, James Bond? They’re all available on DVD. I think you can get them in three boxed sets, plus the last two.

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One thought on Henderson getting the ‘shaken, not stirred’ detail backwards. Watch it again. He does get it wrong, but Bond gives a little smile and politely says it`s perfect... 007`s just being a gentleman and not complaining to his host.

```
 The overhead shot of Bond fighting his way across the rooftops, as the theme song swells up, is one of the defining moments of the series. Very nice sense of movement.

 Still, it would be great if the filmmakers today did a movie as close to the original, macabre book as possible. I thought YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, which starts with Bond depressed and falling apart after the death of his wife and ends with him living peacefully on a fishing island with the pregnant Kissy Suzuki, with no memory of his earlier life, was haunting. I sort of wish the character could have been left there with the Ama, everyone else thinking he`s dead and him finally finding some contentment.
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Of course, the movie did set the standard for “ridiculous climactic gun battle between two large groups of men with lots of cool explosions and whatnot, ending in the whole secret base going kablooie.” _Moonraker_ and _The Spy Who Loved Me_ would do the same, and of course so would parody versions in _Austin Powers_ and that _Simpsons_ episode.

Previous climaxes had been Bond (and a girl) running like crazy while Hell broke loose. _Goldfinger_ touched on the huge gun battle with all those army guys, but the real tension was Bond trying to defuse the A-bomb in the gold vault (his inability to do so is easily one the best Bond movie moments ever).

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[By the way.](http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30500-12252944,00.html)

So maybe James will get a drinking-and-skirt-chasing buddy.

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**Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-5-you-only-live-twice/191090/17 "2003-07-28T12:43:16Z")

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Since you asked,

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> _from Johnny L.A._  
> [Doesn’t “osato” mean “sugar” in Japanese? Just curious.]

It can, depending on which characters are used. In this case, it’s probably Oo [big] sato [village], which is a plausible, if not too common, fmaily name.

I may just be a langauge snob, but what stuck with me most was how even the Japanese characters mangled the langauge. “You know your sack-ee, Mr. Bond.”

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> \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \*  
> \*\*What, James Bond? They’re all available on DVD. I think you can get them in three boxed sets, plus the last two. \*\*

All volumes save for one are now on moratorium until November. Available now are _Dr. No_, _Goldfinger_, _The Man with the Golden Gun_, _The Spy Who Loved Me_, _Licence to Kill_, _Goldeneye_, and _Tomorrow Never Dies_. Volumes 2 and 3 (now with _The World is Not Enough_ and _Die Another Day_!) return November 18…but they’re only on sale till January 19. Move fast, Mr. Bond…

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> ## \*Originally posted by TigoleBitties \* \*\*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am surprised someone did not have them yelling “JUDO CHOP”
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> ## That sounds very familiar. Where’s it from?
> 
> Actually from the very same Austin Powers. Mike decided to add a bit of joking in his fight scenes with the dig on the sometime hokey fighting in the Bond films. Listen whenever he fights in the Austin movies, he is yelling JUDO CHOP and JUDO KICK each time. Quite funny when he is trying to get through a bunch of baddies because he is yelling it over and over. \*\*

_actually_ I believe it’s from **A Man Called Flintstone**

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> All volumes save for one are now on moratorium until November.

Zounds! You’re right! I just went over to Amazon and searched the DVDs for “james bond” and “collection”. There is only the set you mentioned available.

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