You Only Live Twice (1967)

James Bond treedt handelend op, wanneer een bemande ruimte-vlucht gekaapt wordt, waardoor een atoom-oorlog dreigt uit te breken. In Japan komt hij op het spoor van de daders, de wereldwijd verbreide misdaad-organisatie S.P.E.C.T.R.E., waar de aartsvijand van Bond, Ernst Stavro Blofeld genaamd, de touwtjes in handen heeft. Met hulp van de Japanse geheime dienst zet Bond alles op alles om een Derde Wereldoorlog te voorkomen.

Set MovieMeter.nl as default synopis Visit MM

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, Bon...
Read more

d, 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.)
Read less..

Set AllMovie.com as default synopis Visit AM