You Only Live Twice [1967]

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1967
Running Time: 116 mins     117 mins
Format: Technicolor     35mm      widescreen
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PRODUCTION
Production Company: Eon Productions
Production Executive: Stanley Soppel [uncredited]
Producers: Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman
Production Supervisor: David Middlemas

SCRIPT
Screenplay: Roald Dahl
Novel: Ian Fleming
Additional Story Material: Harold Jack Bloom
Continuity: Angela Martelli
2nd Unit Continuity: Kay Rawlings [uncredited]

DIRECTION
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Action Sequences: Bob Simmons
Assistant Director: William P.Cartlidge
2nd Assistant Director: Terry Churcher, Richard Jenkins [uncredited]
3rd Assistant Director: William Graf Jr [uncredited]
2nd Unit Director: Peter Hunt
2nd Unit Assistant Director: John Quested [uncredited]

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Frederick A. Young
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Bob Huke
Camera Operator: Ernie Day
2nd Unit Camera Operator: Peter Hurst [uncredited]
Aerial Photography: John Jordan; Tony Brown [uncredited]
Underwater Photography: Lamar Boren
Focus Puller: Ken Withers [uncredited]
2nd Unit Focus Puller: Simon Ransley [uncredited]
Clapper Loader: Michael Messenger [uncredited]
2nd Unit Clapper Loader: Danny Shelmerdine [uncredited]
2nd Unit Grip: George Beavis [uncredited]
Standby Grip: Ted Lockhart [uncredited]
Electrics Supervisor: Reg Blackburn [uncredited]
Chief Electrician: Frank Buck [uncredited]
Stills: Joe Pearce [uncredited]

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Supervising Editor: Peter Hunt
Editor: Thelma Connell
Assembly Editor: Graham Shipman [uncredited]
Assistant Editor: Stephen Warwick, Richard Dobson [uncredited]

MUSIC
Music: John Barry
Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse
Song Performed By: Nancy Sinatra

SOUND
Sound: John Mitchell, Gordon K. McCallum
Sound Camera Operator: Ron Butcher [uncredited]
Boom Operator: Keith Pamplin

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Basil Newall, Paul Rabiger
Hair: Eileen Warwick
Wardrobe Mistress: Eileen Sullivan
Wardrobe Master: Brian Owen-Smith [uncredited]
Wardrobe Assistant: Terry Young [uncredited]
2nd Unit Wardrobe: Roy Ponting [uncredited]

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: John Stears
Special Effects Assistant: James A. Snow, Joe Fitt [uncredited]
Nautical Effects Rigger: Charles Dodd [uncredited]
Effects Engineer: Bert Luxford [uncredited]
Main Title Designer: Maurice Binder

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Ken Adam
Art Director: Harry Pottle
Assistant Art Director: Michael White, Peter Lamont [uncredited]
Set Dresser: David Ffolkes
Chief Draughtsman: Roy Dorman [uncredited]
Draughtsman: Fred Hole, Ron Benton [uncredited]
Junior Draughtsman: Maggie Pinhorn [uncredited]
Sketch Artist: Robert Laing [uncredited]
Prop Buyer: Ron Quelch, John Biggs [uncredited]
Construction Manager: Ronnie Udell [uncredited]

MISCELLANEOUS
Technical Advisor: Kikumaru Okuda [uncredited]
Supervising Accountant: W.F. Eggleden [uncredited]
Studio Accountant: Len Barnard [uncredited]
Assistant Accountant: Brian Taylor, G.K. Cooper [uncredited]
Accounts Secretary: Gene Towlson [uncredited]
UK Publicity: Roy MacGregor [uncredited]
US Publicity: Tom Carlile [uncredited]
Production Secretary: Golda Offenheim [uncredited]
Secretary to Saltzman: Francine Taylor [uncredited]
Secretary to Broccoli: Margaret Curtis [uncredited]
Secretary to Soppel: Diana Moore [uncredited]
Secretary to Carlile: Evelyn Purcell [uncredited]
Secretary to MacGregor: Lorraine Fennell [uncredited]
Dialague Coach: Helen Goss [uncredited]
Assistant Dialague Coach: Mark Pollard [uncredited]

LOCATIONS
Locations: Japan; Hong Kong; the Bahamas; Gibraltar; Spain
Studio: Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Location Manager: Robert Watts

STUNTS
Stunt Co-Ordinator: Bob Simmons
Stunts: Vic Armstrong [uncredited]

CASTING
Casting Director: Weston Drury Jr [uncredited]
Location Casting Director: Harvey Woods [uncredited]

CAST
Sean Connery [James Bond]
Akiko Wakabayashi [Aki]
Mie Hama [Kissy]
Tetsuro Tamba [Tiger Tanaka]
Teru Shimada [Mr Osato]
Karin Dor [Helga Brandt]
Donald Pleasance [Blofeld]
Bernard Lee [M]
Lois Maxwell [Miss Moneypenny]
Desmond Llewelyn [Q]
Charles Gray [Henderson]
Tsai Chin [Chinese girl (Hong Kong)]
Peter Fanene [Maivia car driver]
Burt Kwouk [SPECTRE 3]
Michael Chow [SPECTRE 4]
Ronald Rich [Blofeld's bodyguard]
Jeanne Roland [Bond's masseuse]
David Toguri [assassin (bedroom)]
John Stone [submarine captain]
Norman Jones, Paul Carson [astronauts (1st American spacecraft)]
Laurence Herder, Richard Graydon [astronauts (Russian spacecraft)]
Bill Mitchell, George Roubicek [astronauts (2nd American spacecraft)]
Anthony Chin [SPECTRE guard]
Robert Hutton [President's aide - uncredited]
Alexander Knox [American President - uncredited]
Anthony Ainley, Patrick Jordan [military policemen - uncredited]
Mai Ling, Yasuko Nagazumi, Yee-Wah Yang [bath girls - uncredited]
Ed Bishop [Hawaii radar operator #1 - uncredited]

Someone is stealing American and Russian spaceships from orbit and the two superpowers are close to coming to blows over the issue. James Bond travels to Japan to investigate and, inside a massive base built inside a dormant volcano, he comes face to face with his old adversary - Ernst Stavro Blofeld, SPECTRE Number 1!

A return to form for the series and the most spectacular yet. Ken Adam's awesome sets have rarely been equalled let alone bettered, the action is fast and furious and the Little Nellie sequence is a Bond classic. But it's clear that Connery was growing weary of the role and the film marked the end of an era - from this point on, the series was going to increasingly lose its way until its effective re-launch three decades later.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Universal

This man is James Bond

Sean Connery es James Bond

Sean Connery ist James Bond. Wilkommen in Fernost, 007

Wilkommen in Tokyo, Mr Bond

Sean Connery ar James Bond

Sean Connery est James Bond

Sean Connery is James Bond... and twice is the only way to live!

Sean Connery e James Bond

2002
February
23: USA - television broadcast [on ABC]

On ne vit que deux fois - French title
Man lebt nur Zweimal - German title
Agente 007 - Si vive solo due volte - Italian title
Solo se vive dos veces - Spanish title
Han lever bara tva ganger - ??? title
007 Dies Twice - translated Japanese title

SEQUEL TO
Dr No [1962]
From Russia With Love [1963]
Goldfinger [1964]
Thunderball [1965]

SEQUELS
On Her Majesty's Secret Service [1969]
Diamonds Are Forever [1971]
Live and Let Die [1973]
The Man With the Golden Gun [1974]
The Spy Who Loved Me [1977]
Moonraker [1979]
For Your Eyes Only [1981]
Octopussy [1983]
A View To a Kill [1985]
The Living Daylights [1987]
Licence to Kill [1989]
Goldeneye [1995]
Tomorrow Never Dies [1997]
The World Is Not Enough [1999]
Die Another Day [2002]

SEE ALSO
Brazil [1985]
Inside You Only Live Twice [2000]

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Premiere Bond: Die Another Day [2002]

MAGAZINES

Monthly Film Bulletin 1967 pp.122-123
credits, synopsis, review

Motion Picture Herald 28 June 1967
review

TV Times 14 - 20 January 1989 p.27
credits, TV data

BOOKS

The A-Z of Science Fiction and Fantasy Films p.300
credits, synopsis, review

Reference Guide to Fantastic Films p.555
credits

Sean Connery [Robert Tanitch] pp.75-79
illustrated synopsis, review

Kiss Kiss, Bang! Bang! pp.70-81
illustrated review, synopsis, credits

The Incredible World of 007 pp.46-53, 146
illustrated article, synopsis

KEYWORDS

spies, space travel, spaceships, japan, volcanoes, secret organisations

Last Updated: 6 March, 2007