007 MAGAZINE | Fact Files | You Only Live Twice (1967)



Date of release:	Royal World Charity Premiere 12th June 1967 ODEON Leicester Square, London.
Running Time:	116 minutes
James Bond:	Sean Connery
Plot:	SPECTRE hijacks American and Russian space capsules in a bid to start World War III for their clients, the Red Chinese.
Bond’s Women:	Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama) [voice of Nikki van der Zyl] Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi) Ling (Tsai Chin)
Bond’s Enemies:	Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasence) Mr. Osato (Teru Shimada) Helga Brandt (Karin Dor) Hans (Ronald Rich) Car Driver (Peter Fanane Maivia)
Bond’s Allies:	Tiger Tanaka (Tetsuro Tamba) [voice of Robert Rietty] Henderson (Charles Gray) M (Bernard Lee) Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) Q (Desmond Llewelyn)
Bond’s Car:	Toyota 2000GT (not his, and driven by Aki)
Bond’s Gadget:	‘Little Nellie’ autogyro: armed with two forward-firing synchronised machine guns, forward-firing rocket launchers, rear-firing flame guns, heat-seeking air-to-air missiles, smoke ejectors, aerial mines and helmet camera.
Main Title Music:	‘You Only Live Twice’ sung by Nancy Sinatra
End Title Music:	‘You Only Live Twice’ sung by Nancy Sinatra
Music Score:	John Barry
Production Designer:	Ken Adam
Art Director:	Harry Pottle
Second Unit Director:	Peter Hunt
Main Titles Designer:	Maurice Binder
Costume Designer:	No specific costume designer was assigned to You Only Live Twice. Sean Connery's tailoring by Anthony Sinclair [uncredited]
Supervising Editor:	Peter Hunt
Editor:	Thelma Connell [uncredited] (Replaced during post-production)
Special Effects:	John Stears
Action Sequences Arranger:	Bob Simmons
Screenplay:	Roald Dahl Additional story material Harold Jack Bloom
Director of Photography:	Freddie Young
Director:	Lewis Gilbert
Producers:	Harry Saltzman & Albert R. Broccoli The listing shown is contractual for the Eastern Hemisphere and is reversed for the Western Hemisphere.
End Credit:	THE END OF YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE BUT JAMES BOND WILL BE BACK ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
Poster Tag-line:	“Sean Connery IS James Bond!”