You Only Live Twice (1967) is the fifth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fifth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name. It is the first James Bond film to discard most of Fleming's plot, using only a few characters and locations from the book as the background for an entirely new story.
In the film, Bond is dispatched to Japan after American and Soviet manned spacecraft disappear mysteriously in orbit. With each nation blaming the other amidst the Cold War, Bond travels secretly to a remote Japanese island in order to find the perpetrators and comes face to face with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. The film reveals the appearance of Blofeld who was previously a partially unseen character. SPECTRE is both working on behalf of and extorting the government of an unnamed Asian power, implied to be Red China[1][2], in order to provoke war between the superpowers, China being at odds with both sides at the time: see Sino-Soviet split.
EDINBURGH boy :) The best kind, blasted by gunfire and no a mark on him...class!!!!!
mysterywhylay 4 months ago
@SuperIllusiveman Check out HK's 'Darky' toothpaste sometime (now called Darly), or Tully's ads in Tokyo. That ought to give you a laugh or two.
humbleradio 4 months ago
@SuperIllusiveman Actually that describes many young Japanese today (except for the afro size and 'Sucka' utterances). Don't take my word for it. C'mon over.
humbleradio 4 months ago
@SuperIllusiveman Sometimes, yeah. Not always, just like not always in Western films are Asians are shown in stereotype.
humbleradio 4 months ago
@humbleradio So all the westerners in Asian films, American, Canadian, British, French, ect, are stoned, wear bell bottoms, have afros the size of Volkswagen Beetles and say the word "sucka" a lot? Weird.
SuperIllusiveman 4 months ago
Boy, seems most people on this thread are more concerned about stereotypes and PC garbage than a good movie. Perhaps cinema like this is wasted on you, eh? Don't worry, though, in 40 years from now (probably less), your favorites of today will be regarded in the same subjective (and faulty) light you measure the past with.
humbleradio 4 months ago
@tomada36 Unlike now? Lol.
humbleradio 4 months ago
@SuperIllusiveman Imagine a really bad 70s movie, then exaggerate it A LOT! ;)
humbleradio 4 months ago
@humbleradio What are they, if you don't mind me asking?
SuperIllusiveman 4 months ago
@Johnnybomb1 You think this is bad. You should see the asian stereotypes of westerners in movies here in Tokyo! Lol!
humbleradio 6 months ago