You Only Live Twice (1967) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ) Approved | Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked. Director: Harold Jack Bloom (additional story material), Roald Dahl (screenplay) Stars: From $10.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 23 titles created 05 Mar 2013 a list of 24 images created 25 Jul 2014 a list of 23 titles created 10 Dec 2014 a list of 26 titles created 29 Dec 2015 a list of 26 titles created 3 months ago Title: You Only Live Twice (1967) 6.9/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 2 nominations. See more awards » Videos James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme. Director: Terence Young A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon. Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond woos a mob boss's daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps that involves beautiful women from around the world. Director: Peter R. Hunt James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE. Director: Terence Young Investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve. Director: Guy Hamilton 007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.

Director: Guy Hamilton A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program. Director: Terence Young James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed. Director: Lewis Gilbert Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Director: John Glen James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide. Director: Lewis Gilbert A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces. Director: John Glen Edit Storyline When an American space capsule is swallowed up by what they believe to be a Russian spaceship, World War 3 nearly breaks out.

The British Government, however, suspect that other powers are at work as the space craft went down near Japan. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the force behind the theft, as James Bond discovers, but its motives are far from clear, and he must first find out where the captured space capsule is held before America and Russia initiate another world war. Written by Graeme Roy <gsr@cbmamiga.demon.co.uk> You Only Live Twice...and "TWICE" is the only way to live! See more » Genres: 13 June 1967 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia The primary reason for converting the Toyota 2000GT coupes into convertibles was Sean Connery 's height; he was simply too tall to fit into the GT which was notoriously too small for anyone over 5'8". Connery's height was 6'2". See more » Goofs On a monitor in Aki's Toyota, Bond sees the helicopter flying with the car it has picked up, from about the same altitude. But where would the camera be?

Bond seems to be watching the same movie we are. See more » Quotes [first lines] Astronaut - 1st American Spacecraft : Calling CapCom. CapCom, this is Jupiter 16. Do you give a go for fourth orbit. Houston CapCom : CapCom to Jupiter 16. Can you confirm O2 pressure is within limit. Astronaut - 1st American Spacecraft : Roger. Everything looks good in the environmental control system. Houston CapCom : Okay. Everything looks good from here. You have a go for fourth orbit. See more » Crazy Credits THE END of YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE but James Bond will be back ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE See more » Connections Referenced in Spectre (2015) See more » Soundtracks Bond-san, Blofeld, Asian Delights and Production Value Supreme. 1 May 2012 | by Spikeopath (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews You Only Live Twice is directed by Lewis Gilbert and written by Roald Dahl. It stars Sean Connery, Tetsuro Tamba, Teru Shimada, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Karin Dor and Donald Pleasence.

Music is scored by John Barry and cinematography by Freddie Young. Bond 5 and Connery once again tackles the role of 007. With American and Soviet space craft mysteriously vanishing from space, both nations are laying the blame at the other's door. Sensing a nuclear war could break out, M assigns Bond to Japan to investigate if there might be a third party stirring the hornets nest. Teaming up with the Japanese secret service, Bond uncovers evidence that SPECTRE is behind the plot to pitch the East and the West against each other. This organisation does not tolerate failure. Thunderball had broke box office records for Bond, gadgetry, outlandish stunts and a quip on the tongue had proved most profitable. It was planned originally that On Her Majesty's Secret Service would be number 5 in the series, but a change of tack to go for You Only Live Twice as the story gave producers Broccoli & Saltzman the scope for a giganticus enormous production. However, it may be set in Japan and feature a Bond/Blofeld conflict, but Roald Dahl's script bares little resemblance to Ian Fleming's source novel.

Although a massive financial success with a Worldwide gross of over $111 million, Bond 5 took $30 million less than Thunderball. Strange since this is a better film. Can we attribute the drop to it being a space age saga? Maybe, the rebirth of sci-fi was a few years away, and of course Bond had lost some fans who had grown tired, like Connery, of 007 relying on gadgets instead of brains and brawn to complete his missions. There was also the rival Casino Royale production, as bad as it was, to contend with, while the spy boom created by Bond had been overkilled elsewhere and was on the wane. Extortion is my business. Go away and think it over, gentlemen. I'm busy. True enough that You Only Live Twice has flaws, though they are far from being film killers if you like the gadgets and hi-techery side of the franchise? Connery announced once production was over that he was leaving the role of Bond behind. He had been close to breaking point after Thunderball, but finally the media circus, typecasting, the fanaticism and the character merely being a cypher for outrageous sequences, led Connery to finally call it a day.

His displeasure shows in performance, oh it's professional, very much so, but the swagger and machismo from the earlier films has gone. Although Dahl's script tones down the "cheese" dialogue and unfolds as a plot of considerable World peril worth, characterisations are thinly drawn, making this reliant on production value and action sequences. Thankfully both are top dollar. And the ace up its sleeve is the long awaited face to face meeting of Bond and Blofeld. The firing power inside my crater is enough to annihilate a small army. You can watch it all on TV. It's the last program you're likely to see. Ken Adam's set design is fit to grace any epic in film history, as is Freddie Young's photography around the Japanese locales, Barry lays a beautiful Bond/Oriental score all over proceedings and Nancy Sinatra's title song is appealingly catchy. The action is excellently constructed by Gilbert (helming the first of three Bond movies on his CV), with the final battle at Blofeld's volcano crater base full of explosions, flying stunt men, expert choreography and meaty fights.

Along the way we have been treated to Ninjas, Piranhas, poison, aeroplane peril and the awesome Little Nellie versus the big boy copter smack down! Then there's that Bond/Blofeld confrontation. Well worth the wait, with Pleasence visually scary with bald head (setting the marker for bald villainy to follow in TV and cinema it seems) and scar across his eye. Pleasence is also very low key with his menace, which is perfect, we don't want pantomime and the scenes with Bond work wonderfully well. It made less than the film before it and it has fierce critics in Bond and Fleming circles. But it's a Bond film that pays rich rewards on revisits, where the artistry on show really shines through in this HD/Upscale age. 8/10 17 of 19 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes James Bond, You Only Live Twice - Title Song - YouTube James Bond, You Only Live Twice - Title Song Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented.

This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Aug 30, 2009 Title track from the fifth James Bond film, starring Sean Connery as 007. Music by John Barry, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, performed by Nancy Sinatra. Category Nancy Sinatra, 'You Only Live Twice' (1967) | The Top 10 James Bond Theme Songs | Rolling Stone The Top 10 James Bond Theme Songs Barely Legal: 30 Nearly Pornographic Mainstream Films The Top 10 James Bond Theme Songs With the arrival of Adele's new Bond theme, we look back at the best songs from the franchise 10 All Stories 4. Nancy Sinatra, 'You Only Live Twice' (1967) Nancy Sinatra was fresh off her breakthrough hit "These Boots Are Made For Walking" when the producers of You Only Live Twice recruited her to sing the title song. The haunting tune has had a long afterlife, being covered by everyone from Coldplay to Bjork . Next Slide Trending Ranked on a scale from 1 to 10, the trending score reflects the number of users reading a story in real time. What is this?

Don’t Miss a Story Sign up for our newsletter to receive breaking news directly in your inbox. We may use your e-mail address to send you the newsletter and offers that may interest you, on behalf of Rolling Stone and its partners. For more information please read our Privacy Policy How we use your email address © Rolling Stone 2017 You Only Live Twice by Nancy Sinatra Songfacts You Only Live Twice by Nancy Sinatra Songfacts Songfacts In the mid-1960s, Nancy Sinatra was popular enough to sing the theme song to a James Bond movie, which is entitled You Only Live Twice. While it didn't reach the chart heights of such theme songs as " Goldfinger " and " A View To A Kill ," it remains fondly remembered by her fans and is featured on all of the James Bond them song compilations. >> Suggestion credit: Mike - Santa Barbara, CA James Bond veteran John Barry wrote the music while the lyrics were by Leslie Bricusse, who had previously worked on the theme to Goldfinger. Sinatra's regular collaborator Lee Hazlewood produced the version that was released as a single.

The song was recorded on May 2, 1967 at the CTS Studios in Bayswater, London with a 60-piece orchestra. Sinatra was very nervous during the recording, and she needed about 25 takes before there was enough material for John Barry to create the final product. Robbie Williams re-recorded the opening bars of the song for his 1998 UK chart-topper " Millennium ." He decided it was a lot cheaper to recreate it in the studio rather than to clear a sample. Cee-Lo Green sampled the song for his 2011 single " Bright Lights, Bigger City ," which peaked at #13 in the UK. Coldplay recorded a live version of the song as the B-side for their "Don't Panic" single. It was recorded during performance at the Rockefeller Music Hall in Norway. You Only Live Twice (soundtrack) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia You Only Live Twice (soundtrack) 2,123pages on Novel — Film — Comic — Audio drama — Soundtrack — Song — Characters Original You Only Live Twice soundtrack cover The soundtrack was composed by Bond veteran, John Barry .

At the time, this was his fourth credited Bond film. The theme song, You Only Live Twice , was sung by Nancy Sinatra . In 1998 , Robbie Williams sampled the title song "You Only Live Twice" for the chart-topper " Millennium ". A rock version of You Only Live Twice was covered by Coldplay when they toured in 2001 , and was covered by Natacha Atlas for her 2005 compilation album The Best of Natacha Atlas . Track listing You Only Live Twice (Title Song) — Nancy Sinatra Capsule In Space A Drop In The Ocean The Death Of Aki Bond Averts World War Three You Only Live Twice (End Title) — Nancy Sinatra These seven tracks were later added, as a bonus, to the complete version of the original soundtrack. James Bond In Japan James Bond - Ninja Twice is the Only Way to Live Twice is the Only Way to Live was the final track on the original UK version of the soundtrack. It was also included on the United Artists' soundtrack compilation "Ten Golden Years" ( 1968 ). On certain albums of YOLT's soundtrack, the alternate 007 theme is included.

It's the score played when Little Nellie is being constructed and continues to play until 3 - 4 SPECTRE helicopters encounter Bond at which point the song becomes the main 007 theme. It's also heard in the parade chase scene in Thunderball and the Amazon River chase in Moonraker. You Only Live Twice (1967) You Only Live Twice (1967) d. Lewis Gilbert, 117 minutes Opening Credits, Title Sequence Gun-barrel Sequence: Designed by Maurice Binder Main Title Sequence: Designed by Maurice Binder Title Song: "You Only Live Twice" (sung by Nancy Sinatra) Film Plot Summary In the pre-credits title sequence set during the Cold War era in 1967, a manned, orbiting American NASA space capsule, Jupiter 16, was conducting routine functions when a strange, unknown "unidentified object" (another intruding spacecraft, later identified as Bird One) unexpectedly approached, opened its front hatch metal jaws, and consumed the entire US spacecraft. During the hijacking, one of the astronauts during his space-walk maneuvers had his life-line cut and he expired (# 1 death). The fate of the second astronaut was unknown.

Radio and radar contact were entirely lost. Subsequently, the Soviet government denied all knowledge of the affair, although the US was quick to blame them. The suspicious US government challenged the USSR to not interfere in its next launch within 20 days, but the British officials were not convinced the hijacking originated from Soviet Russia. The British noted indications (from their Singapore tracking station) that the alien craft landed in the Sea of Japan, and suspected Japanese involvement. England's "man in Hong Kong" 007 agent James Bond (Sean Connery) was reportedly working on the problem in Asia - first seen kissing a Chinese girl in bed, pretty Ling (Tsai Chin) (# 1 tryst), asking: "Why do Chinese girls taste different from all other girls?" After rising from the bed, Ling activated a switch on the wall, flipping the bed (with Bond in it) into an upright position into the wall. This allowed gunmen to enter and fire machine guns at the bed.

[Later, it was revealed that Ling was hired by MI6 to help 'fake' Bond's death.] Headlines read: "BRITISH NAVAL COMMANDER MURDERED." During a military funeral ceremony, Bond was buried in the Sea of Japan from a British naval vessel. Underwater, his wrapped corpse was intercepted by naval frogmen and taken clandestinely to an awaiting British M1 nuclear submarine. The body-bundle was cut open and Bond was found alive (in a plastic shroud-pouch with an underwater breathing device). On board, Bond was briefed by "M" (Bernard Lee) after a brief visit with secretary Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) in the outer office. It was staged to look like Bond had been murdered in Hong Kong, to allow him "more elbow room" to move about undercover during his investigation. "Before the real shooting starts" in a "full-scale war," Bond was to find the location of the base of the renegade spacecraft that hijacked the US capsule, before the next American launch in three weeks. Bond was to be sent to Tokyo, Japan, where he was to be contacted by local MI6 operative Dikko Henderson (Charles Gray).

After receiving the code-words "I Love You" from Miss Moneypenny, without deliberately repeating the three words back to her (to spite her), Bond donned a wet-suit and mask, was loaded into a torpedo tube and 'fired' into the ocean, where he swam to the Japanese shore as dusk approached. In bustling downtown Tokyo, Bond was followed as he entered a Sumo hall where wrestlers were preparing for their matches. He was seated in the large audience hall, where his Japanese Secret Service agent contact - pretty, soft-spoken and polite partner Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi) joined him. After uttering the code words "I Love You," she drove him in her nearby white Toyota 2000 GT sports-car to meet Henderson in his Japanese-styled home. The British operative with a wooden leg (lost in Singapore in '42) walked with a cane. Henderson informed Bond about his theories regarding the US/Soviet space crisis, speculating the location of the missile's firing from Japan, and the involvement of a "major foreign power" - but he believed it was neither Russia nor Japan.

As he was speaking mid-sentence about the possibility of a "large Japanese industrial concern," Henderson was murdered - he fell forward with a knife in his back (# 2 death). Bond crashed through the paper wall and chased down the Japanese killer outside, stabbing him with his own switchblade knife (# 3 death, # 1 Bond kill). Bond then disguised himself in the dead man's clothes, and approached the man's awaiting car, feigning injury in the back seat. He was driven to the high-rise Osata Chemical & Engineering Company, a local chemical corporation, where Bond was carried over the shoulder of the driver to an executive office and deposited on the couch. When recognized as an imposter, Bond drew his gun, but the brutish driver retaliated. They fought all over the interior of the office, nearly destroying it, and Bond was threatened with decapitation from a Samurai sword. Bond eventually knocked out the attacker with a stone statuette that broke in two from the blow. In a side room where he had stashed the body, Bond noticed a safe door with an open panel, and decided to investigate.

With an automatic safe-combination cracker device, 007 opened the safe and stole some documents, but also triggered an emergency alarm. He escaped down an elevator from the pursuit of armed security guards, shot one of them (# 4 death, # 2 Bond kill) and was rescued, fortuitously, by Aki driving by in her Toyota. Bond became suspicious when Aki refused to answer his questions, and then stopped the car and fled into a deserted subway station. As he walked towards her, a trap-door opened in the floor beneath him, and Bond found himself sliding down a slick metal chute. He was deposited in an arm-chair in the secret underground HQ office of the head of the Japanese Secret Service (SIS), "Tiger" Tanaka (Tetsuro Tamba). Bond was warmly greeted: "Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond. It is a great pleasure to meet you at last." When Tanaka examined the stolen documents from the safe, including an order for 500 kilos of butter and 50 containers of lox, Bond hypothesized that "LOX" (a clever cover, meaning American salmon) was also the technical name for liquid oxygen which made rocket fuel.

It was possible that Osato, run by industrialist Mr. Osato (Teru Shimada), was surreptitiously supplying liquid oxygen (used as rocket fuel) to an unknown third party client. As Tanaka and Bond traveled in the agent's private train (with a screening room and full service staff), they more closely examined a photograph among the documents and learned from a microdot that an innocent American tourist was "liquidated" for taking an unauthorized photo of a cargo ship (identified as the Ning-Po, registered in Shanghai) near a strip of land. Diving girls were seen, with magnification, in the left of the photo. Bond retired for the night in Tanaka's magnificent ancient castle, where the head agent provided his shared "possessions" - four scantily-dressed female bathing attendants who assisted in a "civilized" bath. After his bath, Bond selected one of the four "sexyful" girls for a massage, although Aki replaced her and promised no interruptions for the remainder of the night ("I think I will enjoy very much serving under you") (# 2 tryst). The next morning, Bond returned to Osato's office posing as Mr. Fisher, the new managing director of Empire Chemicals.

After executive Osato arrived via helicopter, Bond was introduced to his red-headed "confidential" secretary Helga Brandt (Karin Dor), and during their scheduled meeting, it was clear that Bond was recognized as the previous night's intruder. When he departed, Brandt was ordered to kill Bond ("Kill him"), and a carload of four assassins shadowing him opened fire. In another well-timed rescue, Aki saved Bond in her sports-car in front of the building, and radioed Tanaka for support ("arrange usual reception"). Suddenly, Tanaka's two-rotor helicopter equipped with a gigantic electro-magnet swooped down, clamped on and lifted the attacking black sedan into the air and deposited the villains into Tokyo Bay. Bond and Aki watched, from the closed-circuit TV monitor behind the bucket seats of the Toyota, as the gunmen were disposed of (Bond: "Just a drop in the ocean") (# 5-8 deaths). Tanaka then told Bond that Ning-Po was owned by Osato Chemicals, and was presently loading at the Kobe docks, before sailing onto Shanghai. Aki and Bond proceeded there to investigate, where they found liquid oxygen tanks being loaded.

The two were promptly attacked by dock workers paid by Osato. As Bond shot three of the men (# 9-11 deaths, # 3-5 Bond kills) and continued to fight them off, he urged Aki to escape. To evade about a dozen attackers, he dove off the rooftop onto the dock, but then he was suddenly knocked out from behind. When he awakened, Bond found himself tied to a chair onboard the Ning-Po, where Helga confronted him in her cabin and threatened him with a scalpel (a plastic surgeon's "dermatome"). He joked: "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?" She kissed him, even while he confessed he was an industrial spy. As she seduced him, he proposed a "nice offer" - convincing her that they could split the profits from the theft of Osato's process for making MSG (worth $300,000), if she cut him free and they fled to Tokyo (and then Europe) together.

When she released him, he cut the two shoulder straps on her dress, quipping to the sultry vixen: "Oh, the things I do for England" as they embraced and he unzipped the back of her dress (# 3 tryst). However, as they flew back to Tokyo in a Cessna aircraft that she piloted, the deceitful Helga double-crossed Bond - she sabotaged the plane with a lipstick bomb and jumped out - parachuting to safety. Bond fortunately brought the crashing plane under control, and landed it before it exploded. Upon his return to Tanaka and Aki, Bond was informed that they had identified the remote coastline in the photograph - an island called Matsu, on a direct route between Kobe and Shanghai. It was the Ning-Po's destination for its major cargo that had been unloaded overnight. Gadgets master "Q" (Desmond Llewelyn) delivered to Bond a portable, auto-gyro mini-helicopter packed in four large suitcases, dubbed Little Nellie, for his reconnaissance mission over the island.

While investigating the island's extinct volcanoes mid-flight, Bond was pursued by four armed SPECTRE helicopters, but in the dogfight was able to subdue them with his arsenal of deadly gadgets and weapons (# 12-15 deaths, # 6-9 Bond kills). He radioed Tanaka about Little Nellie's conquest: "Four big shots made improper advances towards her. But she defended her honor with great success." The launch of a Russian spacecraft (with two Soviet cosmonauts) resulted in another hijacking by the unidentified vessel with front metal jaws. It subsequently landed back in SPECTRE's rocket base hidden inside a hollowed-out volcanic crater. The Pentagon in Washington, DC was alerted when the Russians blamed the US for the act of aggression, and a war between the two super-powers seemed imminent. The two captured cosmonauts were transported by monorail within the crater. The head of SPECTRE (No. 1), megalomaniac Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasence), still hidden although identified by his petting of a white Persian cat, bragged to his Red Chinese funding compatriots about the space attacks.

He demanded $100 million dollars in gold bullion in advance deposited in his Buenos Aires account, and was promptly accused of extortion, because their agreement had originally specified that war had to first break out between the US and USSR. Blofeld summoned Helga and Mr. Osato to his quarters, and reprimanded them for failing to kill Bond and allowing the agent to escape. Osato blamed Helga: "I gave Number 11 the strictest orders to eliminate him...She failed." Helga retaliated: "You should have killed him yourself. You had plenty of opportunity." Blofeld pressed a hidden foot pedal as he spoke: "This organization does not tolerate failure," and Helga was plunged into Blofeld's piranha pool filled with voracious fish (# 16 death), intimidating Osato and the two Red Chinese who witnessed the horrible death. He then commanded Osato: "Kill Bond now." Bond was flown by helicopter to Himeji Castle, Tanaka's top-secret Ninja training school and rocket weapons development center. The plan was to infiltrate Ama island and create a base with a hundred Ninjas, who would pose as workers and fishermen.

As "extra special cover," Bond was to "become a Japanese," train in Ninja skills, and "take a wife" - not Aki, but Tanaka's own protege Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama) - an Ama girl who was known on the island. After Bond was transformed and disguised as a "Japanese" by Tanaka's female bath attendants so that he could infiltrate the island near the volcano, pretending that he was a poor Japanese fisherman, he made love to Aki "Japanese style" (# 4 tryst), but during the night as they slept after their passionate love-making, a SPECTRE assassin killed Aki, with deadly poison intended for Bond dripping onto her lips down a long string (# 17 death). Bond shot and killed the hitman (# 18 death, # 10 Bond kill), but couldn't save Aki. During two more days of training, Bond killed one of his training opponents ("a stranger from outside" who had infiltrated into the castle) - who tried to kill him first with a wooden pole dagger-spike (# 19 death, # 11 Bond kill).

In an elaborate, formal and traditional Japanese wedding ceremony, Bond married Tanaka's protege named Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama) who pretended to be his wife, an Ama island pearl diver. They ferried over to the Ama diving island of Matsu, to Kissy's house, where Bond insisted they must sleep together on their 'honeymoon,' but she rejected the idea. He had taken a false name, and it was only a 'business' arrangement, she claimed. That night, as they slept in separate beds, Tanaka informed Bond that the next American mission-launch had been moved forward to midnight - a potential trigger for WWIII if it was hijacked. The next morning, Kissy and Bond slipped away from the fishing divers and investigated a large cave where a local diving girl had recently been found dead under mysterious circumstances. They were forced to evacuate the cave's grotto and swim to safety when it contained poison phosgene gas (and the walls with covered with yellow sulphur). Bond hypothesized that the cave's tunnel led all the way up to the top of the volcano.

They climbed to its summit, and took a rest break (Kissy: "It's hard work" - Bond: "Some honeymoon"), and Bond kissed Kissy on the hillside. Then, they observed a descending helicopter, and Bond warned: "the honeymoon's over." They climbed further and discovered that the crater was covered with a false lake surface made of metal - hiding SPECTRE's headquarters and rocket site. Bond entered the site when the crater roof opened (aided by rubber suction cups attached to his hands and knees), while Kissy went back to alert Tanaka and his Ninjas. In only two hours time, the American spacecraft was to be hijacked. When Bond attempted to rescue the imprisoned US astronaut and two cosmonauts, and then impersonate one of the SPECTRE astronauts about to launch, he was apprehended and brought before Blofeld. [Bond had mistakenly forgotten to leave his portable air-conditioning unit behind as he prepared to enter the craft.] The bald, scar-faced, Nehru-jacketed Blofeld made his first full appearance: "Allow me to introduce myself" as he confronted Bond.

Bond mentioned how he had lived through a fake assassination attempt in Hong Kong: "This is my second life." Blofeld threatened: "You only live twice, Mr. Bond." Blofeld confessed his evil plan, to "inaugurate a little war" between America and the Soviets, creating a new emerging power to dominate the world. On her swim back, Kissy was attacked by a SPECTRE helicopter, and had to dive deep underwater to evade them. In the film's climactic confrontation, SPECTRE's base was assaulted by Ninja commandoes led by Tanaka, just after the launch of the Bird One intruder rocket. The US was on the verge of a nuclear attack on the suspected Russians. Crater guns opened fire and showered the Ninjas with automatic gunfire (unknown number of deaths). Bond asked for a cigarette (Blofeld: "It won't be the nicotine that kills you, Mr. Bond"), and activated its explosive power, killing one of the technicians (# 20 death, # 12 Bond kill). He fought off others and managed to briefly open the crater roof so that the Ninjas could enter by rappelling in.

Although the Ninjas met deadly gunfire as they entered (unknown number of deaths), one Ninja used a limpet mine to blow a gaping hole in the roof of the crater. As the base was being impregnated, Blofeld took Bond and Osato with him from the control room to his secret lair-hideout, where he point-blank shot Osato dead (# 21 death) ("This is the price of failure, Mr. Bond"). He then pointed the gun at Bond, taunting: "Goodbye, Mr. Bond," but a well-aimed metallic Ninja throwing star from Tanaka hit his arm and deflected his weapon, and he was forced to escape in a monorail car. Bond raced to the "exploder button" in the control room through a back entryway, to destroy the Bird One intruder spacecraft, but first had to kill one of the armed guards (# 22 death, # 13 Bond kill). He then confronted and fought against Blofeld's brutish blonde bodyguard-assistant Hans (Ronald Rich). They struggled together on the bridge crossing over the piranha pool.

Bond flipped Hans over his shoulder (after a missed punch) directly into Blofeld's piranha fish-pool tank, filled with voracious piranha fish (with razor-sharp teeth) (# 23 death, # 14 Bond kill). As Bond looked down at the feasting fish, he quipped: "Bon appetit." In the flaming control room, Bond activated the self-destruct switch with Hans' key and exploded the Bird One just five seconds before it reached another American craft - he had averted WWIII. Meanwhile during his escape, Blofeld activated the base's explosive self-destruct system, killing more of Tanaka's Ninja fighters (unknown number of deaths), and himself (unknown?). As the volcano's base was destroyed by a series of explosions (while the volcano was also erupting with lava blasts), Bond, Kissy, and Tanaka (and surviving Ninjas) fled for their lives by swimming out of the cave tunnel. Support planes air-dropped rubber dinghys for the survivors, and Bond and Kissy found themselves in one of them. Bond reminded Kissy: "Now, how about that honeymoon?" - she replied: "Why not?

But they'll never let you stay." He vowed they wouldn't be found ("But they'll never find us"). They embraced and kissed (# 5 tryst), but "M's" M1 submarine interrupted their love-making, by ironically surfacing directly under their raft. Miss Moneypenny was pleased to have to summon Bond below to deliver a report. Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.) The fifth film in the series. With no Academy Award nominations. The first Bond film to be released during the summer. The first Bond film to be shot almost entirely in Asia. This film marked the first time Bond was seen in his Navy uniform. The first of three Bond films to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, who also helmed The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979). This film had to contend with a rival, unofficial James Bond film, Columbia's big-budget 007 spoof comedy Casino Royale (1967) with David Niven. With a production budget of $9.5 million, and gross revenue of $43 million (domestic) and $111 million (worldwide).

The film's title, "You Only Live Twice," was taken from a haiku in Ian Fleming's original novel: "You only live twice. Once when you are born. And once when you look death in the face." It was notable as the first Bond film with a plot that was significantly different from its source material, Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name, with an original screenplay by noted writer Roald Dahl (the creator of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and James and the Giant Peach). The only two similarities to the book were the Japanese location and the Bond-Blofeld conflict. Also, the plot formed the basis of another Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Set-pieces: the pre-credits spacecraft hijacking, the fight on the Kobe docks, the mid-air dogfight between Bond's Little Nellie and four SPECTRE machine-gun firing helicopters, and the climactic battle in the hidden volcano rocket base. Bond Villains: Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasence), Mr.

Osato (Teru Shimada), Helga Brandt (Karin Dor), Hans (Ronald Rich) Bond Girls: Ling (Tsai Chin), Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi), Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama) Number of Love-Making Encounters: 5 Film Locales: Outer space, US Mission Control (Houston) and Hawaii tracking station, Hong Kong, Sea of Japan and Tokyo, Japan, Kobe dock/Osaka, Japan, small Japanese fishing village near Ama diving island of Matsu, Russian launch site - Star City, USSR, Pentagon (Washington DC), Himeji Castle, Japan (Tanaka's secret Ninja training school and rocket weapons development center) Gadgets: a plastic shroud-pouch with an underwater breathing device, purse with radio transmitter, state-of-the-art compact automatic safe-combination cracker/decoding device, closed-circuit video surveillance and monitoring console in Osata's office, Helga Brandt's lipstick bomb, Tanaka's Ninja Training School weapons/gadgets (metallic throwing stars, martial arts' weapons with razor-sharp blades, Gyrojet rocket pistols and rifles that fired jet-propelled bullets that exploded on impact, a cigarette case with cigarettes that fired miniature rocket

 launchers, wooden pole with dagger-spike), rubber suction cups Vehicles: Jupiter 16 (US spacecraft) and Bird One (SPECTRE intruder rocket), M1 nuclear submarine, Aki's white Toyota 2000 GT convertible (with radio transmitter and closed-circuit TV monitor behind the bucket seats), Tanaka's Private Underground Train, Tanaka's 2-rotor Helicopter (with gigantic electro-magnet), Cessna aircraft, Little Nellie Autogyro plane (a portable mini-helicopter packed in 4 large suitcases, with two fixed, front-mounted machine guns, two forward-firing rocket launchers, heat seeking air-to-air missiles, two rear flame gun throwers, two smoke ejectors, and aerial mines launched on tiny parachutes, and a helmet with a cine-camera and radio transmitter) Number of Deaths (Bond Kills): 23 (14) James Bond: "You Only Live Twice" opening w/ music by Nancy Sinatra - YouTube "You Only Live Twice" opening w/ music by Nancy Sinatra Want to watch this again later?

Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Mar 23, 2008 Here are the opening titles to 1967's "You Only Live Twice" featuring the radio/single version of the title song by Nancy Sinatra. Enjoy! Category 'You Only Live Twice': Behind The 'Mad Men' Song - MTV mtv rebecca thomas RebeccaBuilds 06/11/2012 Last fall, assurgent rap titans Drake and Rick Ross announced plans for a two-way mixtape, Y.O.L.O. (You Only Live Once). The project borrowed its title from the Toronto MC's "The Motto," and quickly spawned a million shoulder-shrugging tweets. But on Sunday night, the Teflon Don was overtaken by another Don, as [article id="1687053"]AMC's dapper hero got his swag back on the "Mad Men" finale[/article].

As season five of the Matthew Weiner series drew to a close, ad man Don Draper — having left the Mrs. at an acting job — dealt two female admirers at a bar a split-second look that effortlessly projected equal parts lust and mischief. And while Jon Hamm's expression would have been enough to loosen the most tightly secured underpinnings, the sound of Nancy Sinatra crooning "You Only Live Twice" cemented the moment ... and sent the hash tag #YOLT multiplying into the Twittersphere. If the lilting Sinatra tune sounded familiar, though, it's because the song has pop cultural bone fides that stretch from 007 to U.K. pop royalty. "You only live twice / Or so it seems / One life for yourself, and one for your dreams," Sinatra sings on a number that first appeared in the 1967 James Bond film of the same name. "You Only Live Twice" is the fifth in the spy series and featured Sean Connery as the martini-drinking secret agent. Composer John Barry reportedly considered this installment in the franchise his favorite.

Three decades later, in 1998, ex boy-bander Robbie Williams would liberally sample the opening strings and horns on "Twice" for his hit "Millennium." The single led the Brit's second solo album, I've Been Expecting You, and became his first to top the U.K. charts. Abandoning the Leslie Bricusse-penned lyrics of the original, Williams and his co-writers created a bit of social commentary for their pre-Y2K smash. The flamboyant Cee Lo Green also took a liking to Barry's infectious tune, sprinkling it on his "Bright Lights Bigger City," which appears on the ATL crooner's Lady Killer album. Still, for all its modern interpretations, on Sunday night, the woozy "Twice" sounded as if it were made for Weiner's '60s drama. Share your thoughts on the "Mad Men" season finale in the comments!

Sam Smith sings theme song for James Bond film 'Spectre' - CNN.com 1 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers English singer Matt Monro is best known for his hearty rendition of the theme tune for 1963's "From Russia with Love." (The first James Bond movie, "Dr.

No," had an instrumental title song.) Hide Caption 2 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers Shirley Bassey, perhaps the most iconic Bond theme-song singer, sang the title theme to 1964's Goldfinger." Bassey brought her strong, distinctive voice back to the series in title tunes for 1971's "Diamonds Are Forever" and 1979's "Moonraker." Hide Caption 3 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers Welsh singer Tom Jones, best known for hits like "What's New Pussycat" and "She's a Lady," sang the title tune for 1965's "Thunderball." Hide Caption 4 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers These boots were made for walking, but she was made for singing: Nancy Sinatra performed the theme to "You Only Live Twice" in 1967.

Hide Caption 5 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers Jazz great Louis Armstrong sang "We Have All the Time in the World," the secondary musical theme from the 1969 Bond film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." The song became a hit in the UK 25 years later when it was featured in a Guinness beer commercial. Hide Caption 6 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers Paul and then-wife Linda McCartney and their pop group Wings performed the title number from 1973's "Live and Let Die," the first of the Bond movies to star Roger Moore as Agent 007. The song is still a staple of Paul McCartney's live concerts.

Hide Caption 7 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers Scottish pop singer Lulu sang the title song for 1974's "The Man with the Golden Gun." Hide Caption 8 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers Carly Simon scored a major radio hit with "Nobody Does it Better," the theme from the 1977 Bond film, "The Spy Who Loved Me." Hide Caption 9 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers After the band Blondie recorded another version that was rejected, Scottish pop star Sheena Easton was tapped to sing "For Your Eyes Only" for the 1981 Bond movie of the same name. The song reached No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard charts. Hide Caption Photos: James Bond theme song singers Rita Coolidge sang "All Time High," the theme from 1983's "Octopussy." Hide Caption 11 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers American singer Lani Hall, wife of bandleader Herb Alpert, sang the title song to 1983's "Never Say Never Again," which brought Sean Connery back for his final Bond role.

The film was made by a different production company from the other James Bond movies, so some fans don't consider it part of the official series. Hide Caption 12 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers Singer Simon Le Bon and British pop group Duran Duran did the title song for 1985's "A View to a Kill." Hide Caption 13 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers Norwegian pop band A-Ha recorded the title song for 1987's "The Living Daylights," the first of two films starring Timothy Dalton as Bond. It was the last theme written by longtime Bond composer John Barry. Hide Caption Photos: James Bond theme song singers Soul legend Gladys Knight sang the theme to "License to Kill" in 1989. Hide Caption 15 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers After a six-year hiatus, the Bond series rebooted with 1995's "GoldenEye" and Pierce Brosnan in the lead role. Tina Turner sang the theme song, which was written by U2's Bono and the Edge.

Hide Caption Photos: James Bond theme song singers Sheryl Crow performed the title song to 1997's "Tomorrow Never Dies." Hide Caption 17 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers Garbage, led by Shirley Manson, did the title track to 1999's "The World is Not Enough." Hide Caption 18 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers Pop icon Madonna finally did her first and only Bond theme song in 2002 for "Die Another Day." Hide Caption 19 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers One of the few men to sing a Bond theme, rocker Chris Cornell performed "You Know My Name" from 2006's "Casino Royale." It was the first film to feature Daniel Craig as Bond. Hide Caption 20 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers Pop star Alicia Keys and blues rocker Jack White teamed up to sing "Another Way to Die," the theme from 2008's "Quantum of Solace." White also wrote the song.

Hide Caption 21 of 22 Photos: James Bond theme song singers British pop star Adele sang the title theme from "Skyfall" in 2012. Three years later, the world is still awaiting the singer's long-delayed new album. Hide Caption

Question: Who sang the title song for the Bond film You Only Live Twice?
Answer: Nancy Sinatra