Starring Sean Connery, You Only Live Twice was the fifth installment in the James Bond series. Touted, as always, as being bigger and better than all the previous Bond films, it featured "Little Nellie", a Gyrocopter which Bond uses to fight full-size, fully armed helicopters; a spaceship eating satellite, and a volcano, the set for which cost an almost unprecedented £400,000 ($1,000,000). With world powers blaming one another for their spaceships' disappearance, who else to prevent World War III but our favorite philandering double-0, James Bond.
Production Team
Director: Lewis Gilbert.
Producer: Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman.
Script: Roald Dahl and Harold Jack Bloom. (from the novel by Ian Fleming)
Cinematography: Freddie Young.
Production Design: Ken Adam.
Special Effects: Wally Armitage, Jimmy Harris, Fred Heather, Garth Inns, Jimmy Snow, John Stears, Jimmy Ward and Jack Woodbridge.
Editing: Peter Hunt.
Art Direction: Harry Pottle.
Costume Design: Eileen Sullivan.
Make-Up Department: Basil Newall, Paul Rabiger and Eileen Warwick.
Sound Department: Gordon K. McCallum, Harry Miller, John W. Mitchell and Norman Wanstall.
Music: John Barry.
Cast
Sean Connery - James Bond
Akiko Wakabayashi - Aki
Mie Hama - Kissy Suzuki
Tetsuro Tamba - Tiger Tanaka
Teru Shimada - Mr. Osato
Karin Dor - Helga Brandt
Donald Pleasence - Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Bernard Lee "M"
Lois Maxwell - Miss Moneypenny
Desmond Llewelyn - Q
Charles Gray - Henderson
You Only Live Twice Theme, Performed by Nancy Sinatra
Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.
You only live twice, or so it seems.
One life for yourself, and one for your dreams.
You drift through the years, and life seems tame.
Till one dream appears, and love is its name.
And love is a stranger who'll beckon you on.
Don't think of the danger, or the stranger is gone.
This dream is for you. So pay the price.
Make one dream come true. You only live twice.
And love is a stranger who'll beckon you on.
Don't think of the danger, or the stranger is gone.
This dream is for you. So pay the price.
Make one dream come true. You only live twice...