If spy films is of great interest to you then you might as well consider to watch You Only Live Twice. The film was released in the year 1967. It is the fifth spy film of the James Bond series. Sean Connery stars in the movie as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film is based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel "You Only Live Twice" and the screenplay was written by Roald Dahl. The movie plot is an interesting one. Bond travels to Japan after the mysterious disappearance of American and Russian spacecrafts from the orbits. In between the cold war, the nations get involve in the blame game. At this time, Bond takes on a secret travel expedition to the remote islands of Japan. The travel helps him to find the culprits and makes him come face to face with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. The appearance of Blofeld gets revealed in the film, who had been a partially unseen character in the former movie series.
You Only Live Twice was released in the year 1967.This paved the way to cast George Lazenby, who was cast as James Bond in the movie, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
The release year of this movie is 1969. The film, You Only Live Twice is the first Bond film, which was directed by Lewis Gilbert, who is also credited for directing the movie, 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (1977) and 'Moonraker' (1979). In both these movies, Roger Moore played the lead role.
The major portion of this film was shot in Japan. In a major film scene, the Himeji Castle in Hy?go was depicted as a training camp. The Hotel New Otani, Tokyo was used for the purpose of shooting exteriors of the Osato Chemicals. The hotel's gardens were considered for the scenes of the ninja training.
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Other locations used in the film included places outside Japan. Shooting was also done in Hong Kong for the scene, where Bond faked his death. Alaska was considered for the Russian radar station. The film educed positive response from the audience and also from critics.
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