DVD 125 IMDB 6.9

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#7902

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Sean Connery	James Bond
Akiko Wakabayashi	Aki
Tetsuro Tamba	Tiger Tanaka
Mie Hama	Kissy Suzuki
Teru Shimada	Mr. Osato
Karin Dor	Helga Brandt
Donald Pleasence	Ernst Stavros Blofeld
Lois Maxwell	Miss Moneypenny
Desmond Llewelyn	Q
Charles Gray	Henderson
Bernard Lee	M
Tsai Chin

Director	Lewis Gilbert
Producer	Albert R. Broccoli; Harry Saltzman
Writer	Roald Dahl; Ian Fleming

James Bond heads East to save the world (and to learn how to serve saki properly) in this action-packed espionage adventure. When an American spacecraft disappears during a mission, it's widely believed to have been intercepted by the Soviet Union, and after a Russian space capsule similarly goes missing, most consider it to be an act of American retaliation. Soon the two nations are at the brink of war, but British intelligence discovers that some sort of UFO has crashed into the Sea of Japan. Agent 007, James Bond ( Sean Connery ) is sent in to investigate. After staging his own death to avoid being followed, Bond, disguised as a Japanese civilian, teams up with agent Tiger Tanaka ( Tetsuro Tamba ) and his beautiful associate Aki ( Akiko Wakabayashi ). With their help, Bond learns that both the American and Russian space missions were actually scuttled by supercriminal Ernst Blofeld ( Donald Pleasance ) in yet another bid by his evil empire SPECTRE to take over the world. As he battles the bad guys, Bond finds time to romance both Kissy Suziki ( Mie Hama ) and Helga Brandt ( Karin Dor ). You Only Live Twice was one of Sean Connery 's last outings as James Bond. The next Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service , would star George Lazenby as 007, and while Connery would return for Diamonds Are Forever , in 1973, Roger Moore took over the role. ( Connery would play Bond one last time, in 1983's Never Say Never Again , which was produced outside the official series.) — Mark Deming