You Only Live Twice 1967 123movies

Watch: You Only Live Twice 1967 123movies, Full Movie Online – During the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union lose one spacecraft each after they are both seemingly swallowed whole by a second unidentified spacecraft. The two superpowers are quick to blame one another for the disappearances, causing tensions to skyrocket. The United Kingdom has an alternate theory regarding the disappearances however, a theory involving Japan, and sends their number one spy, James Bond, to investigate there. With the help of the Japanese Secret Service, he uncovers a plot far more sinister than anyone could have ever imagined..
Plot: A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
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	6.8/10 Votes: 110,590
	74% | RottenTomatoes
	61/100 | MetaCritic
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Reviews:

Bond-san, Blofeld, Asian Delights and Production Value Supreme.
You Only Live Twice is directed by Lewis Gilbert and written by Roald Dahl. It stars Sean Connery, Tetsuro Tamba, Teru Shimada, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Karin Dor and Donald Pleasence. Music is scored by John Barry and cinematography by Freddie Young.

Bond 5 and Connery once again tackles the role of 007. With American and Soviet space craft mysteriously vanishing from space, both nations are laying the blame at the other’s door. Sensing a nuclear war could break out, M assigns Bond to Japan to investigate if there might be a third party stirring the hornets nest. Teaming up with the Japanese secret service, Bond uncovers evidence that SPECTRE is behind the plot to pitch the East and the West against each other.

This organisation does not tolerate failure.

Thunderball had broke box office records for Bond, gadgetry, outlandish stunts and a quip on the tongue had proved most profitable. It was planned originally that On Her Majesty’s Secret Service would be number 5 in the series, but a change of tack to go for You Only Live Twice as the story gave producers Broccoli & Saltzman the scope for a giganticus enormous production. However, it may be set in Japan and feature a Bond/Blofeld conflict, but Roald Dahl’s script bares little resemblance to Ian Fleming’s source novel. Although a massive financial success with a Worldwide gross of over $111 million, Bond 5 took $30 million less than Thunderball. Strange since this is a better film. Can we attribute the drop to it being a space age saga? Maybe, the rebirth of sci-fi was a few years away, and of course Bond had lost some fans who had grown tired, like Connery, of 007 relying on gadgets instead of brains and brawn to complete his missions. There was also the rival Casino Royale production, as bad as it was, to contend with, while the spy boom created by Bond had been overkilled elsewhere and was on the wane.

Extortion is my business. Go away and think it over, gentlemen. I’m busy.

True enough that You Only Live Twice has flaws, though they are far from being film killers if you like the gadgets and hi-techery side of the franchise? Connery announced once production was over that he was leaving the role of Bond behind. He had been close to breaking point after Thunderball, but finally the media circus, typecasting, the fanaticism and the character merely being a cypher for outrageous sequences, led Connery to finally call it a day. His displeasure shows in performance, oh it’s professional, very much so, but the swagger and machismo from the earlier films has gone. Although Dahl’s script tones down the “cheese” dialogue and unfolds as a plot of considerable World peril worth, characterisations are thinly drawn, making this reliant on production value and action sequences. Thankfully both are top dollar. And the ace up its sleeve is the long awaited face to face meeting of Bond and Blofeld.

The firing power inside my crater is enough to annihilate a small army. You can watch it all on TV. It’s the last program you’re likely to see.

Ken Adam’s set design is fit to grace any epic in film history, as is Freddie Young’s photography around the Japanese locales, Barry lays a beautiful Bond/Oriental score all over proceedings and Nancy Sinatra’s title song is appealingly catchy. The action is excellently constructed by Gilbert (helming the first of three Bond movies on his CV), with the final battle at Blofeld’s volcano crater base full of explosions, flying stunt men, expert choreography and meaty fights. Along the way we have been treated to Ninjas, Piranhas, poison, aeroplane peril and the awesome Little Nellie versus the big boy copter smack down! Then there’s that Bond/Blofeld confrontation. Well worth the wait, with Pleasence visually scary with bald head (setting the marker for bald villainy to follow in TV and cinema it seems) and scar across his eye. Pleasence is also very low key with his menace, which is perfect, we don’t want pantomime and the scenes with Bond work wonderfully well.

It made less than the film before it and it has fierce critics in Bond and Fleming circles. But it’s a Bond film that pays rich rewards on revisits, where the artistry on show really shines through in this HD/Upscale age. 8/10

For me, this is one of the best of the series
My vote for the best Sean Connery Bond film goes to Goldfinger, which is also a contender for the best ever Bond too. You Only Live Twice is one of the best of the series for me. Why? Well the cinematography and locations once again are stunning and the music and theme song are really quite memorable. The pacing is brisk, the story is great and eventful and the script is suitably arch. Sean Connery is still his suave and charismatic self, while Donald Pleasance’s Blofeld is one of the all-time great screen villains even though most of the time he is unseen. Add to that an explosive climax set in a secret base that is definitive and forever parodied and you have a truly great Bond entry. 10/10 Bethany Cox

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 57 min (117 min)
Budget 9500000
Revenue 111584787
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
Director Lewis Gilbert
Writer Harold Jack Bloom, Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming
Actors Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama
Country United Kingdom
Awards Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award2 wins & 3 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System), 4-Track Stereo
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision PSR R-200, Panavision C-Series Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, London, UK (colour)
Film Length 3,210 m (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 50T 5251, 100T 5254)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm