You Only Live Twice! A James Bond Film

 Recently I went back to watching James Bond movies and the choice of the night, You Only Live Twice. This 1967 spy thriller is the fifth of the James Bond movie franchise that was created by Eon Productions and stars once again the late, great Sean Connery as the 007 agent himself.

The movie was based off of an Ian Fleming book of the same name. In fact, this book was the eleventh novel and twelve book in the James Bond series and it came out in March of 1964. Sadly, this would be the last book ever written by Fleming as he would pass away in August of the same year (REST IN PEACE🙏🙏🙏 Fleming!)

The film follows James Bond as he is assigned to the land of the rising sun after American and Russian astronauts go missing with each nation blaming each other amidst the Cold War. 

So Bond goes to Japan where he meets up with Tanaka and Aki where they discovered that the hijackings are caused by the archrival of Bond Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his organization SPECTRE. Bond along with his friends must stop SPECTRE and their plans to start a war between the US and Russia.

Man I loved this movie! The writing, the characters, the music, the gadgets, the action, everything about this film was incredible.

For starters, I love the fact that this movie is based in Japan, I always loved Japan and would love to go visit there someday. The scenery of some of the shots were beautiful. My personal favorite area was seeing where Tanaka trained his students to become Ninja called Himeji Castle which is regarded as one of the finest surviving example of prototypical Japanese castle architecture.

The cast was amazing as well, you got Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi as Aki, Tetsuro Tamba as Tiger Tanaka and Donald Pleasence as the evil Blofeld just to name a few were so much fun to watch. Everybody in this film just felt like they really were that character, it truly was a beautiful sight to see.

To say this film was successful is putting it mildly, the budget on this film was 9.5 million dollars. However it totally smashed through the box office making a total of 111.6 million dollars Holy Crap! 😮

This movie certainly is one of the best Bond films ever made and I highly recommend it to every single one of you to go and see it.

Until Next Time!

God Bless and Be Safe Everybody! 🙏🙏🙏

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