

This film reveals the features of Blofeld, who was previously a partially-unseen character. With one side blaming the other, and an American moonshot just a few days away, Bond goes undercover on a remote Japanese island with local agent Kissy Suzuki, to find the perpetrators, bringing him face to face with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. In the film, Bond is dispatched to Japan after American and Soviet spacecraft disappear mysteriously in orbit. Connery later returned officially, one last time, in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). After its release in 1967, Connery stepped down from the role, leading to the hiring of George Lazenby for 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. You Only Live Twice is the first Bond film to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, who later directed 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me and 1979's Moonraker, both starring Roger Moore.

Significantly, however, the film depicts Bond's first meeting with Blofeld, whereas the novel depicted a later encounter, due to the films not following the books' publication order. No and Goldfinger had taken liberties with the source material, You Only Live Twice is the first Bond film to deviate substantially from the original novel, although it retained many of the characters and the Japanese setting of the original. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and lightly based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name although both Dr.

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You Only Live Twice is the 5th film in the James Bond series and the fifth to star Sean Connery as MI6 agent James Bond. Bond." ―James Bond and Ernst Stavro Blofeld. They told me you were assassinated in Hong Kong." James Bond: " Yes, this is my second life." Blofeld: " You only live twice, Mr.
